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Originally Posted by Amethyst
The southeast line should match up with the west leg, while the northeast line touches downtown in the east and then goes back up north via Centre Street. Both SE and west legs aren't as busy, so you wouldn't need so many trains to share the tracks on 7 Ave while the blue line (NE and NC) travellers could transfer to another train on 7 Ave if they needed to go further west in the downtown.
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That's pretty clever. Of course it disperses the hub a little bit, but in the long run it could have been 7th 8th and 10th as the corridors, with 6th and 9th having dedicated bus lanes and a couple N-S options to keep it all linked.
In a similar vein with total hindsight, I'd have connected the North and West legs with the low floor trains (running up 17th instead of Bow), while SE and NE are connected on 7th to preserve the free fare zone, and the red line eventually moves to 8th. Of course N-W would still need to navigate the 7th/8th/CPKC problem.