$4.6-billion line would tentatively open 2016
The city-spanning Eglinton rail line is heading to Toronto Council at the end of the month, after commissioners on the Toronto Transit Commission voted to send the proposed environmental assessment for the massive transit project forward.
Once it’s in place in 2016, the $4.6-billion line will be carrying light rail vehicles along 30 kilometers between Pearson Airport and Kennedy Station. The middle third of it will travel underground like a subway – and the 43 proposed stops will be spaced between 400 and 500 metres apart.
While commissioners sent the project forward to council, the scope of the plan and some of the solutions it’s taken to deal with traffic issues made some nervous.
In particular, the project will drastically reduce the number of left turns that cars and trucks can make along Eglinton.
– A ‘world-class’ transit system in Toronto?
October 29, 2009Toronto Star
Royson James
The TTC plans to spend up to $30 billion through the next decade, fixing up, remaking and expanding the largest transit system in Canada.
The city cannot afford it. A staff report in September shows the TTC starts running out of approved funds in 2011. By 2012, the basic maintenance budget will be short $312 million. Over the 10 years, the total base shortfall is $1.3 billion. And when you add unfunded projects, the shortfall hits a whopping $13 billion.
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