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Originally Posted by DizzyEdge
Hey guys, street car question. One of the big disadvantages thrown about when discussins street cars vs bus is that the street car can't move around obstructions, like a stalled car. How often does that actually happen in Toronto that a street car's path is unexpectedly obstructed shutting down the line? And in those cases, how quick is it usually resolved?
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They happen quite a bit, but the Toronto streetcar network has lots of non revenue track, so in large portions of the service area the streetcars detour to a parallel non revenue track for a couple of blocks to get around the detour.
as for the oncecity proposal, that is dead. It seems like we will be getting the "next wave" which is a sort of phase 2 of the big move. It does include a $7.3 billion dollar DRL running from Dundas West station to Pape, meaning that east-west travel in the down town core will become MUCH easier. More information on the big move can be found here:
http://www.bigmove.ca/