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

(Rob Ford mentioned)

Thumbnail: "Chaplin station platform stair view" by Transportfan70 is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)

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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)
• 10:14 Aral Sea in 1989 vs. ten years ago
• 12:50 Ship in the empty Aral Sea
• 15:53 SLURM's TRAX Speedrun
• 17:30 News end. 2007: Mayor David Miller
• 20:47 Transit 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
• 46:09 The trainset (Bombardier Flexity)
• 48:01 Outro & Patrons

References & notes

1. [1] Mass Transit: APTA responds to USDOT's proposals for surface transportation reauthorization bill
2. [2] KSL NewsRadio 102.7 FM: Salt Lake City could break another temperature record on Monday
3. [3] USGS: Great Salt Lake Hydro Mapper
4. [4] Wikipedia: Line 5 Eglinton
5. [5] Wikipedia: Transit City
6. [6] Wikipedia: Eglinton West Line
7. [7] Rail for the Valley: The Eglinton Story (Part 1)
8. [8] Steve Munro: Eglinton Crosstown LRT Chronology (Updated)
9. [9] Toronto.com: TIMELINE: A brief history of Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT project
10. [10] Infrastructure Ontario: Eglinton Crosstown LRT
11. [11] Wikipedia: Darth Vader grotesque
12. [12] Eelam StyleZ: Network map of future LRT and BRT lines indicated in the Transit City project.
13. [13] Dillan Payne: Flexity Freedom train at Eglinton station