Scarborough Malvern LRT

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Scarborough Malvern LRT
Overview
Type Light rail
System Toronto subway and RT
Status Cancelled (but revived as an eastern extension of Eglinton Crosstown line)
Locale Toronto, Ontario
Termini Kennedy Station
Sheppard Avenue
Operation
Operator(s) Toronto Transit Commission
Technical
Line length 16.5 kilometres (10.3 mi)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Route map
Eglinton Crosstown line
to Mount Dennis
Bloor–Danforth line
to Kipling
Kennedy
Scarborough rt
BSicon SUBWAY.svg TTC - Line 2 - Bloor-Danforth line.svg BSicon ICTS.svg TTC - Line 3 - Scarborough RT line.svg BSicon TRAM.svg TTC - Line 5.svg
Stouffville line
Kennedy GO
GO Transit logo.svg GO Stouffville logo.svg
Midland
Falmouth
Danforth
McCowan
Eglinton GO
Lakeshore East line
GO Transit logo.svg GO Lakeshore East logo.svg
Mason
Markham
Eglinton/Kingston
Golf Club Road
Guildwood
Guildwood GO
Lakeshore East line
GO Transit logo.svg GO Lakeshore East logo.svg
Galloway
Lawrence
Kingston/Morningside
West Hill
Highland Creek
Ellesmere
UofT Scarborough
Military Trail
Highway 401
Sheppard
Sheppard East LRT
This diagram:

The Scarborough Malvern LRT was a proposed light rail line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1] It was part of the Transit City proposal announced on March 16, 2007 to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. It was expected to cost approximately $1.26 billion including vehicles, property, escalation and an apportioned cost of the Maintenance and Storage facilities. With construction to begin in 2014, the line was expected to open in 2019 as the last of the seven Transit City lines.

The Scarborough Malvern LRT was approved by Toronto City Council on September 30, 2009,[2] and the environmental assessment received a notice to proceed from the Government of Ontario on December 15, 2009.[3] However, it was cancelled by Rob Ford on December 1, 2010 when he announced the cancellation of Transit City.[4][5] While LRT lines on Sheppard East, Finch West, and Eglinton were revived through a new agreement between the City of Toronto and Metrolinx, the Scarborough Malvern LRT was not included.[6]

The Scarborough Malvern LRT is still included in Metrolinx's regional transportation plan The Big Move under the 25-year horizon.[7] Aspects of the Scarborough Malvern LRT were then incorporated into the new 198 U of T Scarborough Rocket express bus.

On January 20, 2016, City staff recommended revisions to the Scarborough Subway plan that would include reviving the original plan for the Scarborough Malvern LRT, to be rebranded as "Crosstown East". [8]

Route layout

The Scarborough Malvern LRT line would run for 13 km, estimated to account for 14 million trips in 2021. The southern terminus of the line would be built at Kennedy Station at Kennedy Road and Eglinton Avenue, with a connection to the Bloor-Danforth subway, the Scarborough RT, and the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line. The whole line would be built within Scarborough. The line would run along Eglinton Avenue East until it reaches Kingston Road, then continues northeast until Morningside Avenue is reached, then continues north until Ellesmere Road is reached, then continues east until Military Trail is reached, then continues northwest until Morningside Avenue is reached. Finally, the line turns north at Morningside Avenue, terminating at Sheppard Avenue East where it will meet the future Sheppard East LRT line.

The original layout had the LRT continuing north along Morningside Avenue directly to Sheppard Avenue East, without a detour along Ellesmere Road and Military Trail to service the University of Toronto Scarborough.[1]

The original layout also had the LRT continuing west along its current terminus at Sheppard Avenue East, overlapping the Sheppard East LRT line to Neilson Road, where it would turn north and terminate at the Malvern Town Centre. This section was most likely cancelled as the Scarborough RT extension would already be servicing that area.

Proposed stops

The TTC indicated that stops would be spaced on average 400 metres apart. The distances between the stops varies, but they were likely candidates, from north to south:

On Morningside Avenue

On Kingston Road

On Eglinton Avenue East

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Request for Approval of the Scarborough-Malvern LRT Environmental Assessment Study - City Council Decision
  3. ↑ Minister's Notice to Proceed
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