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Originally Posted by fredinno
The original M-line (the looping line) was pretty much useless at the time, and only made sense 20 years down the line, once the M-line system was built out, and could have been LRT. Not a great idea once the Broadway extension (the big draw and cause d'etre of the M-line) would be put in, but considering that's happening ~25y after the M-Line's original opening...
I guess you have a point, but then again, just because you have provisions for it, it doesn't necessarily mean it should happen. The Millennium Line had provisions for the NFPR too.
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As observed by other posters, the M-Line was supposed to be immediately followed by the Evergreen and Broadway extensions, but those got delayed by Victoria's power politics. There was never a good reason to connect the
primary corridors (anybody have the map with all the big arrows on it?) with a sub-par system; the secondary and minor corridors are a different story...
It could very well be that bi-artics would be enough for Highway 10, but you never know. Besides, speculation beats waiting fifty years for TransLink's study.
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Originally Posted by fredinno
The Union Pearson Express spur is 3 effectively 3km to the Airport, and the Hamilton spur (before connecting to the Lakeshore mainline) is 4.3km long.
Why are you measuring it from Union to the Airport?
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Because that's how long the line is, not the branch? The UP services downtown, then the demi-urbs, then two suburbs, then the airport.
What you proposed is basically one
full line that goes Weston, Etobicoke, end of story. No downtown or airport.