Jane LRT

Jane LRT
Overview
Type	Light rail
System	Toronto subway and RT
Status	Cancelled
Locale	Toronto, Ontario
Termini	Jane Station Pioneer Village Station
Operation
Operator(s)	Toronto Transit Commission
Technical
Line length	16.5 kilometres (10.3 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in)
Route map Legend Pioneer Village Yonge–University line Murray Ross Steeles Avenue Jane Street Steeles Shoreham Driftwood York Gate Jane-Finch Finch West LRT Yewtree Yorkwoods Grandravine Rita Sheppard Giltspur Black Creek Exbury Heathrow Wilson Highway 401 Falstaff Black Creek Black Creek Drive Maple Leaf John Lawrence Trethewey Kitchener line Weston Jane-Eglinton Eglinton Crosstown line Outlook Black Creek Woolner St. Clair/Dundas Milton line St Johns Annette Ardagh Jane Bloor–Danforth line

The Jane LRT was a proposed light rail line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was part of the Transit City proposal announced March 16, 2007, to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. It was expected to cost approximately $630 million, with construction to begin in 2013 and opening in 2017. It was planned as the sixth of the seven Transit City lines to be completed in the plan.

The Jane LRT was never formally approved by Toronto City Council, and was cancelled by Rob Ford on December 1, 2010 when he announced the cancellation of Transit City.^[1][2] While LRT lines on Sheppard East, Finch West, and Eglinton were revived through a new agreement between the City of Toronto and Metrolinx, the Jane LRT was not included.^[3]

The Jane LRT is still included in Metrolinx's regional transportation plan The Big Move under the 15-year horizon. In February 2016, City of Toronto planners and the TTC also recommended implementing the Jane LRT within 15 years.^[4]

Route layout

According to initial Toronto Transit Commission planning, the Jane LRT line would have run for 16.5 km between Jane Station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth, and the Pioneer Village Station currently under construction on the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. Ridership was estimated to be 24 million trips in 2021.

Instead of turning of Steeles Avenue towards Pioneer Village Station, The Big Move illustrates the Jane LRT running north into York Region and terminating at Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station.

Proposed stops/stations

• Bloor Street West - Jane Station (connection to Bloor-Danforth subway)
• Ardagh Street (surface LRT option only)
• Annette Street
• St. John's Road (surface LRT option only)
• St. Clair Avenue West (connection to future 512 St. Clair LRT extension)
• Woolner Avenue (potential stop, surface LRT option only)
• Outlook Avenue
• Eglinton Avenue West
• Weston Road
• Trethewey Drive (surface LRT option only)
• Lawrence Avenue West
• John Street (potential stop, surface LRT option only)
• Maple Leaf Drive
• Falstaff Avenue (surface LRT option only)
• Wilson Avenue
• Heathrow Drive
• Exbury Road
• Giltspur Drive
• Sheppard Avenue West
• Rita Drive
• Grandravine Drive
• Yorkwoods Gate
• Yewtree Boulevard (potential stop)
• Finch Avenue West (connection to future Etobicoke-Finch West LRT line)
• York Gate Boulevard
• Driftwood Avenue
• Shoreham Drive
• Steeles Avenue West
• Murray Ross Parkway
• York University - Pioneer Village Station (connection to future Yonge-University-Spadina subway extension)

See also

• Toronto streetcar system

References

1. Carter, Tristan (25 February 2011). "Jane LRT goes off the rails". Town Crier (Streeter Publications).
2. D'Cruz, Andrew (1 December 2010). "Mayor Rob Ford: “Transit City is over”". Toronto Life.
3. Tess Kalinowski (28 November 2012). "TTC, Metrolinx finally sign off on LRTs". Toronto Star. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
4. Tess Kalinowski (16 February 2016). "Planners want public’s input on ‘motherlode’ of GTA transit". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2016-02-16.