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Originally Posted by frinkprof
Adapted from my post from a couple years ago:
New high-floor LRT lines just aren't being built anymore, and really haven't been since the mid-eighties. Since Calgary, Edmonton and a couple other cities were very early adopters, they have lines that were high floor from the outset, and thus every time they are extended (i.e. Crowfoot, Saddleridge, even the WestLRT was an operational extension of the NE line), they have had to build new high-floor platforms and buy high-floor trains.
The Green Line being low floor doesn't have much to do with what Coun. Farrell wants necessarily, although she may champion the idea. It's just what's being built by just about everybody now and has been for a long time. It was always going to be low floor design regardless of whether or not it was buried in central areas.
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Many new high floor projects are still happening. In Canada, Ottawa's new system is high floor and I believe the new line in Toronto, Cross town or whatever it is called, is high floor. The new project in Montreal that is going to the airport is high floor.