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Originally Posted by acottawa
I take the CTA's point that the city didn't do the right paperwork and in that regard I am not confident the appeal will be successful (the political appeal to cabinet may be though).
But I am not sure it is fair to characterize the decision as "double dumbass."
Keeping the old freight alignment would have involved significant expense (much longer bridge, greater distance between the two platforms) for absolutely no possible use. If the Trillium line is ever extended over the bridge (or replaced with a bus or any other technology) then a new alignment will be needed anyway (which would roughly follow the existing pathway). Even if the fantasy of the Toronto railfans comes true and the federal government orders the city to remove the Trillium line to make way for another service, the old freight alignment would still be of little use as the new operator would still probably want to take advantage of the existing station, etc.
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Good Day.
yep - the CTA in as far as it goes is absolutely correct, and to be commended. My main point here was that this is virtually purely a delaying tactic - which Jimbo virtually fully admitted to.
The ddouble-ddumb-ass on him is that the Bayview station could and should have been properly designed for at grade height (rather than the shuffle make-do bupkis now-unnecessary swervy ballast ramp up to the present (perm and temp) station platform), and space for twin tracks - which may or may not be the design for the T-Line Phase 2 Bayview station ( that is - should have been - I believe it is not, but it -should- have been, to be built during the shutdown) Now... who knows. But such a design foresight and heads-up on what should be / will be / may not be coming should have been a no-brainer of advance and economic planning and design. It could have been done, and done right. BUT - I think it is another typical City SNAFUBAR.
Bayview is now the end result of so many temp and interim and make-do compromises that a final clean-it-all-up-in-one-blast opportunity has now been missed (until electrification and full double-tracking (yeah, right)), and the PoW bridge situation is now a direct result of it all.
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