http://sashaonthestreet.com/2009/06/18/toronto-transit-vision-2030/ A civil engineer's perspective on transportation and sustainable infrastructure Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:27:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sashaonthestreet.com/2009/06/18/toronto-transit-vision-2030/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Jason Brown Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:13:50 +0000 http://www.sashaonthestreet.com/?p=1244#comment-114 Sasha, I couldn't agree with you more when you say that surface roots are not the only answer. Over the past two years I have worked on several TTC projects including The porposed LRT system, the Yonge subway extension and I am currently working on the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. And like you said it seems the TTC is trying to combine both teh surface and subsurface routes. With that said, from what I see each kilometer of subway is only costing about $100 million give or take a little, if the estimate you have heard for street cars is correct I do think that the extra $30 million per km for a subway is well worth it when you consider the advatages of subsurface transit in our climate. Sasha, I couldn’t agree with you more when you say that surface roots are not the only answer. Over the past two years I have worked on several TTC projects including The porposed LRT system, the Yonge subway extension and I am currently working on the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. And like you said it seems the TTC is trying to combine both teh surface and subsurface routes. With that said, from what I see each kilometer of subway is only costing about $100 million give or take a little, if the estimate you have heard for street cars is correct I do think that the extra $30 million per km for a subway is well worth it when you consider the advatages of subsurface transit in our climate.

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