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Old Posted Jul 9, 2015, 2:38 PM
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Why did they decide to extend the Spadina subway (very expensive) towards Vaughan when certainly some denser areas of Toronto are not served by rapid transit?
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Why did they decide to extend the Spadina subway (very expensive) towards Vaughan when certainly some denser areas of Toronto are not served by rapid transit?
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Why did they decide to extend the Spadina subway (very expensive) towards Vaughan when certainly some denser areas of Toronto are not served by rapid transit?
The pitch is it's cheaper to build the line first and build around it later. Makes sense. Second is CallowayREIT which purchased its management partner and has been reorganized as SMARTREIT. Love to see a list of unitholders.
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The last new station/transit development that we will see in the Vancouver region for a long time?
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Old Posted Jul 9, 2015, 11:08 PM
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New website for the infrastructure portion of the CDPQ is now online: http://www.cdpqinfra.com/en/

From the website you can learn more details about the two future transit lines (if approved by the CDPQ of course).

South Shore LRT: possible ridership of 90,000 daily, 7 or 8 stations, 15km of trackage
West Island LRT: 5 stations (including one at YUL), 28km of trackage
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Old Posted Jul 9, 2015, 11:16 PM
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New website for the infrastructure portion of the CDPQ is now online: http://www.cdpqinfra.com/en/

From the website you can learn more details about the two future transit lines (if approved by the CDPQ of course).

South Shore LRT: possible ridership of 90,000 daily, 7 or 8 stations, 15km of trackage
West Island LRT: 5 stations (including one at YUL), 28km of trackage
the Champlain bridge LRT would be like the SkyTrain and the West island-YUL LRT would be a tramway.
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Old Posted Jul 9, 2015, 11:17 PM
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the Champlain bridge LRT would be like the SkyTrain and the West island-YUL LRT would be a tramway.
I highly doubt it would be a tram line given it's nearly 30km long and will use dedicated tracks. Both systems will probably be based on the Canada Line since the Caisse invested in it with great results.
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Old Posted Jul 9, 2015, 11:19 PM
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I highly doubt it would be a tram line given it's nearly 30km long and will use dedicated tracks. Both systems will probably be based on the Canada Line since the Caisse invested in it with great results.
if you look at the pictures in the PDF, you'll see 2 different system. ''projected''
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The last new station/transit development that we will see in the Vancouver region for a long time?
Yup. Vancouver is about to enter its obligatory transit drought. This is an affliction that affects Canadian cities that cross the 2.5 million mark and lasts approximately 30 years.
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pics from evergreen line, coquitlam station

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Thank you Coquitlam West Coast Express and Transit Exchange users for your patience during Evergreen Line construction. Major construction at the WCE passenger pick-up and drop-off area is now complete and it has reopened. Please keep an eye out for crews as we complete the finishing work (like landscaping) at the WCE station and ongoing construction of Coquitlam Central Station.







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Old Posted Jul 9, 2015, 11:29 PM
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Why did they decide to extend the Spadina subway (very expensive) towards Vaughan when certainly some denser areas of Toronto are not served by rapid transit?
Election politics. York U was a no brained but the extension up to Vaughn was all as a means to peddle for votes.
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New website for the infrastructure portion of the CDPQ is now online: http://www.cdpqinfra.com/en/

From the website you can learn more details about the two future transit lines (if approved by the CDPQ of course).

South Shore LRT: possible ridership of 90,000 daily, 7 or 8 stations, 15km of trackage
West Island LRT: 5 stations (including one at YUL), 28km of trackage
Why is it that west island only has 5 stations, yet it's 28km long? Doesn't seem like it's going to maximize potential ridership.
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Old Posted Jul 9, 2015, 11:33 PM
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Yup. Vancouver is about to enter its obligatory transit drought. This is an affliction that affects Canadian cities that cross the 2.5 million mark and lasts approximately 30 years.
So is Vancouver not going to try to extend a line along Broadway to UBC?
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Old Posted Jul 9, 2015, 11:34 PM
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Why is it that west island only has 5 stations, yet it's 28km long? Doesn't seem like it's going to maximize potential ridership.
Part of the rail corridor is already being used by the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter line. I guess they don't want the new line to cannibalize ridership from it. If they build a big park-and-ride lot and a bus terminal at Fairview, there would be good ridership potential from surrounding Pointe-Claire, Kirkland, DDO and Pierrefonds. I'm excited to see how they'll deal with that though.
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Why is it that west island only has 5 stations, yet it's 28km long? Doesn't seem like it's going to maximize potential ridership.
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During rush hour
• 475,000 motorized trips during morning rush hour on the route linking the Montréal’s West Island
with downtown
− Increase in commutes estimated at close to 20%, or 95,000 additional trips by 2031
− Increase in public transit users estimated at between 25,000 and 30,000 by 2031
− Existing networks lack the capacity to accommodate this increase
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• Lane marked twice a day with orange cones
• One bus every 25 seconds
• 450 buses heading exclusively toward the downtown bus terminal
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Based on demand during rush hour, forecasts suggest that
daily usage of the system could
reach 90,000 commutes in 2021
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I love how Vancouver incorporates wood into the SkyTrain stations much like it did along the M-Line. It takes away the functional sterility of the standard glass/concrete combo but at an affordable price.
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Old Posted Jul 9, 2015, 11:47 PM
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Part of the rail corridor is already being used by the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter line. I guess they don't want the new line to cannibalize ridership from it. If they build a big park-and-ride lot and a bus terminal at Fairview, there would be good ridership potential from surrounding Pointe-Claire, Kirkland, DDO and Pierrefonds. I'm excited to see how they'll deal with that though.
Kind of ironic. The light rail line will have station spacing similar to that of a commuter rail line. Paying for 28km of light rail track for only 5 stations just seems wasteful to me, but maybe I just don't understand the whole scope of the situation.
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Old Posted Jul 9, 2015, 11:51 PM
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Kind of ironic. The light rail line will have station spacing similar to that of a commuter rail line. Paying for 28km of light rail track for only 5 stations just seems wasteful to me, but maybe I just don't understand the whole scope of the situation.
I get your point, but the Caisse knows what it's doing. We'll see how it goes.
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Old Posted Jul 9, 2015, 11:54 PM
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I get your point, but the Caisse knows what it's doing. We'll see how it goes.
the AMT is dependent on the Canadian Pacific, and Canadian National.

Vaudreuil-Hudson, Candiac and St. Jerome are held by CP, while CN has one of Mont-Saint-Hilaire and Mascouche.

the new LRT will be completely independent.
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