Cherry Street streetcar line
The Toronto Transit Commission, in cooperation with Waterfront Toronto, is building a new Cherry Street streetcar line.[1][2] In 2012 construction began on the northern section of Cherry Street, from King Street to Lake Shore Boulevard. This section is projected to cost $90 million CAD.
In 2007, when the plan was being finalized, this route was to be the only route with a separate right of way beside a roadway.[3][4] A tree-lined median will separate the streetcar right of way from Cherry Street. Cherry Street will be reduced to just one lane in each direction. The sidewalks will be widened to 5 meters.
The initial segment of the line, from King Street to Lake Shore Boulevard, is approximately 700 meters long, and will have just three stops on it.[3]
Original plans called for the line to extend further south into redeveloped portlands.[1] That extension pushed the budget for the line to $300 million CAD. The TTC did operate a streetcar in the Portlands in the 1920s.[5] but it connected to streetcar grid at Queen Street, just west of Broadview Avenue. It ran south to Commissioner Street, then west to Cherry.
The line will go near the site of the 2015 Pan Am Games Athlete's Village, but it is not clear whether it will be ready in time for the games. According to the National Post, considering creating a temporary GO train station, at Cherry Street, for the duration of the games.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Adrian Morrow (2012-05-25). "A tiny perfect streetcar line is being laid along Cherry Street". Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2012-06-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20120630000815/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/a-tiny-perfect-streetcar-line-is-being-laid-along-cherry-street/article4204584/. Retrieved 2012-07-19. "There’s a new streetcar line under construction in Toronto, the first in more than a decade and a surprising development during the tenure of a mayor who is outspokenly opposed to light rail."
- ↑ Alex Newman (2011-11-18). "Waterfront plan has good flow". National Post. Archived from the original on 2012-01-20. http://web.archive.org/web/20120120140902/http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/11/19/waterfront-plan-has-good-flow/. Retrieved 2013-04-06. "Encouraging transit use, though, depends on it being there, Mr Campbell says. If it’s not, people get into car dependency. Servicing West Donlands will be an LRT coming from King, and going south along Sumach and Cherry streets. East Bayfront’s streetcar will run from Union Station down to Harbourfront, and then along Queens Quay."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tess Kalinowski (2007-12-11). "Transit-first street plan hailed". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/article/284368. Retrieved 2012-07-19. "Unlike Toronto's other streetcar routes, which traditionally run in mixed traffic and board passengers from platforms in the middle of the road, the Cherry St. plan calls for putting all the transit on the east side of the street, running in two directions, with a tree-lined platform separating it from other traffic." "Two figures incorrect in Cherry St. transit plan". Toronto Star. 2007-12-12. http://www.thestar.com/article/284806. Retrieved 2012-07-19. "The transitway envisioned for this section is 700 metres."
- ↑ "STREETCARS ON CHERRY STREET AND SUMACH STREET SERVING THE WEST DON LANDS DEVELOPMENT". Toronto Transit Commission. 2007-12-06. Archived from the original on 2013-04-07. http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2008/pg/bgrd/backgroundfile-9415.pdf. Retrieved 2012-07-20.
- ↑ James Bow (2012-04-03). "The Ashbridge Streetcar (Deceased)". Transit Toronto. Archived from the original on 2013-04-07. http://transit.toronto.on.ca/streetcar/4122.shtml. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
- ↑ Natalie Alcoba (2010-07-10). "Pam Am Games puts city projects on steroids". National Post. Archived from the original on 2010-12-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20101209045033/http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/07/10/pam-am-games-puts-city-projects-on-steroids/. Retrieved 2013-04-07. "That’s why projects such as the ones in the West Don Lands are positioned to gain the most, he argues, because Waterfront Toronto, the agency overseeing revitalization of the waterfront, has already spent years mapping out the bedrock of a sustainable neighbourhood. In addition to the pool and track facilities promised in the bid book, there is talk of potentially setting up a temporary Go station on Cherry Street."
