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Oom274 reacted to A 6264's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5: Don Valley Station (was Science Centre Station) | ?m | 2s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with
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The city should buy the property, fix the roof, put the exhibits back, and rename it Toronto Science Centre. And at some future time... -
Oom274 reacted to daptive's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with Like.
Can we all just imagine the bliss urbantoronto members would live in if this was our life. One day someone just comes up to you and...
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Oom274 reacted to kotsy's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Ontario Line 3 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx with Like.
Exhibition TBM update from today: We've cut the first cutter head on site now (behind the red mobile crane) Exhibition station...
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Oom274 reacted to hawc's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with Like.
Apparently not. I was talking to people in my office yesterday and was amazed how many people had no idea about it. Some saying, "Oh...
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Oom274 reacted to Voltz's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with Like.
I've seen some decent train operations from Line 5 on the surface so far, but this video here was just bad, Signals that changed to red...
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Oom274 reacted to Voltz's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with Like.
Those numbers include 30 years of maintenance and operations, previous costs for subway lines didn’t include that.
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Oom274 reacted to nfitz's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with Like.
With the cost to date of $9.3 billion for Line 5, and $2.9 billion for line 6, the cost is about a third of that of subway, not half...
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Oom274 reacted to EastYorkTTCFan's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with Like.
I spoke with a TTC supervisor about that on sunday and they said they are working on adding the third car. Apparently, there was a...
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Oom274 reacted to nfitz's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with Like.
Yes. That's why there's all this discussion of people standing on the wrong part of the platform. Though they'd need to buy more cars...
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Oom274 reacted to Amare's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with Like.
We would be giving them too much credit for being forward thinking if they actually thought about things in that manner, but...
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Oom274 reacted to lastcommodore's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with Like.
To be completely honest, I'm not entirely sure why the trains are semi-coupled in the first place... There is zero chance they will be...
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Oom274 reacted to yrt+viva=1system's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with Like.
My verdict: This is how LRT should be operated and built. The Crosstown is far smoother and faster. This is as close to a European...
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Oom274 reacted to nfitz's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with Like.
The CBC had a live blog of this morning's Line 5 service...
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Oom274 reacted to Northern Light's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with Like.
Ummm, I'm as critical of Line 5 as anyone......but your sense of cost needs some tweaks. The lowest tunnel cost anywhere in the world...
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Oom274 reacted to thettctransitfanatic's post in the thread Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis with Like.
After riding yesterday, I thought the line was very good. It moves very fast in the underground portion. The stations are nice but are...