One alternative considered in 2010 was to connect Queens Quay to Union with an underground moving walkway, instead of streetcar tracks. Passengers would disembark at Queens Quay and take the walkway about 500 m to the station. “Readily accessible transit is essential to developing sustainable communities and supports commercial development in burgeoning neighbourhoods like the East Bayfront. Although funding hasn’t been secured for that plan, last fall hope was rekindled that some incarnation of the East Bayfront LRT will go ahead, although it could be scaled back. November 2015Council votes to “reset” waterfront transit planning, directing city staff to accelerate completion of the East Bayfront LRT and re-examine the cost to build it.

Source: thestar May 23, 2016 04:26 UTC