Update: Scarborough RT



The City of Toronto has posted on line the presentation from tonight’s open house about extending the TTC’s 3 Scarborough rapid transit line to Sheppard Avenue East and converting it to light rail transit.

The presentation also describes how the City and TTC plan to alter Kennedy Station to accommodate three light rail lines.

You can view the presentation (in four parts) here, here, here and here. (all .pdf)

In the presentation, maps for the area around Kennedy Station after the City and TTC have built the new lines show the Scarborough rapid transit light and the Eglinton Crosstown and Scarborough Malvern light rail Transit City lines all entering tunnels so that passengers can easily transfer between the 2 Bloor - Danforth subway and the light rail lines.

The new route for the Scarborough rapid transit lines shows an underground loop so that rail cars enter a tunnel, cross Eglinton Avenue East, turn to operate south of, but parallel to Eglinton to a station at the one level above the subway station and one level below the street and the bus terminal. The map then indicates that the Scarborough RT cars would then head north-eastward below the current hydro corridor to rejoin the current line northward.

The Eglinton Crosstown line would also enter a tunnel and operate underground, also slightly to the south and parallel to Eglinton, arriving at a station also at the same level as the subway. Interestingly, the map also indicates that the Eglinton line would then continue northward along the current Scarborough rapid transit line.

The Scarborough Malvern light rail line would enter a tunnel well east of the subway station an have a separate station east of the current Kennedy GO Station. A tunnel would allow passengers to transfer from this station to the other light rail stations and the subway station at Kennedy. The Scarborough Malvern, Eglinton Crosstown and subway platforms would all be at the same level, basically two levels below the street and the bus terminal.