Sonic's Least Favorite Train - The Eglinton Crosstown: Episode 132

Today on the show, we're talking about one of Toronto's most controversial and long-awaited transit projects, and one that opened earlier this year: The Eglinton Crosstown. Just how did Toronto's first LRT line become such a nightmare, and where might it be going next? All this, after The News. (Rob Ford mentioned) Thumbnail: "Chaplin station platform stair view" by Transportfan70 is licensed underCC BY 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) Links and stuffs Merch:https://shop.trlpod.com/ Twitter:@TheRedLine_pod YouTube channel:The Red Line Podcast Spotify:The Red Line Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/theredlinepodcasters Email:[email protected] Website:https://www.trlpod.com/ Timestamps 1:17 news intro 1:28 Doug Ford fan theories 1:57 News: USDOT has decided to defund all transit 5:37 Dooming over the midterms 6:38 Dooming over the Great Salt Lake (parallel drawn to the Aral Sea) 10:14Aral Sea in 1989 vs. ten years ago 12:50Ship in the empty Aral Sea 15:53SLURM's TRAX Speedrun 17:30 News end. 2007: Mayor David Miller 20:47Transit City promised 7 new LRT lines 28:01 Inevitable cuts to Transit City; subplot: SF housing 30:31 Subplot: loyalty tests & Bubba 33:05 Rob Ford helps out 36:18 What if we put the entire line underground? 40:25 Construction officially begins 46:09The trainset (Bombardier Flexity) 48:01 Outro & Patrons References & notes [1]Mass Transit: APTA responds to USDOT's proposals for surface transportation reauthorization bill [2]KSL NewsRadio 102.7 FM: Salt Lake City could break another temperature record on Monday [3]USGS: Great Salt Lake Hydro Mapper [4]Wikipedia: Line 5 Eglinton [5]Wikipedia: Transit City [6]Wikipedia: Eglinton West Line [7]Rail for the Valley: The Eglinton Story (Part 1) [8]Steve Munro: Eglinton Crosstown LRT Chronology (Updated) [9]Toronto.com: TIMELINE: A brief history of Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT project [10]Infrastructure Ontario: Eglinton Crosstown LRT [11]Wikipedia: Darth Vader grotesque [12]Eelam StyleZ: Network map of future LRT and BRT lines indicated in the Transit City project. [13]Dillan Payne: Flexity Freedom train at Eglinton station