Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: Phantom subway station?
Message-ID: <296@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 88 14:18:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: ontenv.296
References: <1636@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Distribution: tor
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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In article <1636@maccs.McMaster.CA>, gordan@maccs.UUCP writes:
> According to a story I heard the other day, there is supposedly a
> phantom subway station in Toronto.
> 
> According to this story (which is thirdhand information, according to a
> friend of a friend of a friend who was a friend of a TTC inspector),
> there is a shiny new subway station somewhere below the city, with about
> 500 m of dead-end track leading from it.  The funding to complete it
> supposedly ran out, but this station may yet someday come into service.
> 
> Any chance of this being true?

Not entirely, when the Yonge subway was originally designed the
thought at that time was that the east-west subway would eventually
run accross Queen Street, of course as we know it ended up following
Bloor instead. When Queen station was built it got a second east-west
platform one level below the existing one, it is hardly shiny or new
the 'decor' is all poured concrete. Even if they were to decide to use
the station now (say for a downtown relief line) the costs to bring it
up to snuff would approach those of building an entirely new station
(mostly because the existing upper level of Queen Station would have
to be massively redesigned to handle the traffic)
-- 
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