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Originally Posted by TylerSVT
You also have to look at how adding new lines will increase the amount of traffic downtown for train useage.
Currently the train probaly sees probably half as much traffic as it would if all the proposed tracks were finished. If they increase the amount of people using trains/day by 100,000 people than that means the downtown train system HAS to be able to support that many people (which it currently cannot)
They need to either do a skyrail service on 7th avenue or the 8th avenue subway system and have NW trains run from 8th or whatever...
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7th Avenue is at capacity now. The 8th Avenue subway is part of the solution. The rest of how capacity downtown will be added is as folows:
- 4 car trains along with slightly better station loccations from 7th Avenue Refurbishment (currently being done)
- West LRT will not add any trains to 7th Avenue. It can be seen as an operational extension to the NE LRT. Instead of stopping and turning around at 10th Street West Station, NE trains will just continue west and eventually turn around at the end of the West LRT line
- Southeast LRT will also not add any trains to 7th Avenue. It will run in its own subway along 10th Avenue and 2nd Street West.
- 8th Avenue Subway will enable the Northwest, South, Northeast, and West lines to add capacity by ensuring they do not share track along 7th Avenue