[URBAN NOTE] "This is what the TTC map will look like in 2025"

[rfmcdonald]

blogTO reports on the future of mass transit in Toronto. One hopes.

By 2025 (all being well) the Spadina line extension to York Region (which we recently got a peek at), the Eglinton-Crosstown and Finch West LRTs, and Scarborough subway will more than likely be complete. As a result, the TTC's longstanding system map will require a major overhaul.

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In total, the city is due to add nine new subway and 40 light rail stops over the next 10 years. That is, of course, assuming there isn't a flip-flop on any of its existing commitments and the ongoing and upcoming construction projects wrap up roughly on time (2025, instead of 2023, allows for an overrun of several years on Finch West and in Scarborough.)

It's also possible other lines could be added to this map before 2025 (we live in hope, right?) The East Bayfront LRT that would run from Union Station to Parliament St. via Queens Quay has been kicked around for years. An environmental analysis was completed in 2010, but so far the funding for the project, which has an option to be extended into the revitalized Port Lands, hasn't been forthcoming.

Discussion, full-size map, and more at the site.

I would be fine with this. Will it be achieved? Different question altogether, alas.