[OT] Public Transit

[Duncan MacGregor]

On Wednesday 27 October 2010 18:21:23 you wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 03:57:09PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> > Well, almost. As you can read in the following history of the
> > Bloor-Danforth line the Bloor Viaduct was built with an 
underground
> > streetcar line in mind:
> > 
> > -  transit.toronto.on.ca/subway/5104.shtml
> > 
> > The provisioning for a streetcar line under the Bloor Viaduct helped 
a
> > LOT, but the TTC did have to deal with sharp turns just west of the
> > viaduct (turns that would not have been an issue for a streetcar to
> > manage, but were for a subway)...
> 
> Well slight hassle, but they managed.
> 

The two bridges were to have been a part of the radial roads project, in 
which roads and subways/streetcars would travel downtown diagonally. 
The Parliament/Castle Frank bridge was to feed a line going southwest, 
not west, and could not  be used for a  westbound subway continuation 
along Bloor.


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