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Originally Posted by haljackey
Has the subway construction started yet? I remember there were plans to extend the Sheppard line here and replace the Scarborough RT with an extension of the Bloor-Danforth line.
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Those projects are almost dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheppard_line#Ford_era
But the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown project is on its way.
http://www.thecrosstown.ca/
Construction of the Crosstown began this summer (2011), and has a projected completion date of 2020.
The 25km line will run underground from Jane/Black Creek Drive to Kennedy Station,
then on a structure completely separated from traffic to the Scarborough City Centre.
Travel on the Crosstown from Kennedy to Black Creek is projected to take 35 minutes.
It will take only 45 minutes to travel from Scarborough City Centre to Black Creek.
This is less than half the time it currently takes to travel the same route.
All Crosstown stations will accept the new PRESTO payment card system.
Light-rail vehicles will feature low floors.
Stations will have a main entrance with elevators, making the system accessible to all passengers.
At Eglinton West Station (Allen Road) and Eglinton Station (at Yonge Street) the Crosstown line will be built to cross underneath the existing subway lines.
The design will include elevators and escalators as well as stairways for passengers to transfer between lines.
Kennedy Station will be re-built for seamless service between the Scarborough RT section and Eglinton sections of the Crosstown line.
The station design will also include elevators and stairway access for passenger transfers to the Bloor-Danforth subway line and a walkway to connect to the GO line.
Construction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinto...e#Construction
The Eglinton–Scarborough Crosstown line will run for a total of 25.2 km (15.7 mi) from Black Creek Drive to McCowan Road, 19.5 km (12.1 mi) of it underground and 5.7 km (3.5 mi) elevated.
Initial plans had the line rising to the surface east of Brentcliffe Avenue.
There will be up to 26 stations in total, with an estimated 100 million trips annually in 2031.
The Presto card will be available for use across the line.
The first part of tunnel construction involves the construction of a launch shaft for tunnel boring machines (TBMs) at Black Creek Drive, which began on October 2011.
Metrolinx ordered four TBMs at a cost of $54 million on July 28, 2010.
These TBMs will commence midtown tunnelling in the summer of 2012.
The average mining rate for a single machine is 75 metres a week of lined tunnel.