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Originally Posted by 1overcosc
Was money the reason? I thought that they chose to eliminate the connection to allow the Trillium Line and Confederation Platforms to be directly on top of each other for easier transfers.
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This all took place at the same time as the deep cross country route through downtown was replaced. It was intended to contain costs to the original $2.1 billion price estimate. To build the interchange station at Bayview so that Trillium Line trains could eventually run into the tunnel once the line was electrified was going cost considerably more than to have the station as currently planned. Bayview station was going to be east of the current plan so that Trillium Line trains would curve into the Confederation Line. While still in diesel operations, the trains would stop, parallel to Confederation Line trains and you would cross the platform to the Confederation Line trains to transfer. With electrification, the trains would continue from the station and merge at a point before entering the tunnel, actually before reaching Pimisi Station. My memory is a little fuzzy so I can't remember whether the two train lines came in parallel or at two different levels before merging, perhaps the latter. It would have been a rather complicated arrangement.
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