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Originally Posted by d_jeffrey
Which is why Carling is so expensive, it won't be a streetcar in any way, there will be underpasses for streets, but will still be at grade. It won't be different from the Parkway. It's 3x the price that city puts for a streetcar. Start reading the reports and posts before complaining about a streetcar, you know I would be the first one to do so!
The city plan is based on a glorified streetcar technology, so be mad at the staff plan instead. The Carling route in the official plan is a streetcar, it isn't in Doucet's plan. The consultant that Clive hired even said that building a streetcar in this day an age is sending money through a rat's hole..
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The only difference between Doucet/Leadman's Carling LRT and staff's streetcar (aside from the number of stops) is the provision of
3 grade separated intersections.
I'm also unclear on how they propose to run LRT down the O-train trench without impacting the operation of the O-train during construction. All costing that I've seen for N-S includes widening of the trench and relocating tracks...
I'd love to hear what Dado thinks of all this...
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