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The Relief Line (formerly the Downtown Relief Line or DRL) was a proposed rapid transit line for the Toronto subway system, intended to provide capacity relief to the Yonge segment of Line 1 and Bloor–Yonge station and extend subway service coverage in the city's east end.
Apr 14, 2008 · The Downtown Rapid Transit project, or Downtown Relief Line (DRL), was a proposed TTC rapid transit route, first studied in 1985 as part of the Network 2011 rapid transit expansion plan for the City of Toronto.
Feb 27, 2015 · The concept of a rapid transit line looping down from Bloor through downtown has been around a lot longer than the politicians debating it.
In this video I look at the history of Toronto's most needed yet unbuilt subway line; the Downtown Relief Line (DRL). From its origins as a streetcar subway under Queen Street to a Heavy...
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Sep 6, 2017 · After 1980, Instead of the Queen subway, attention focused on an upstart proposal to connect the BLOOR-DANFORTH subway at Pape to Union Station. The Downtown Relief Line (or Downtown Rapid Transit/DRT) was one of three new subway routes proposed in the early 1980s as part of the Network 2011 plan.
Three years since the announcement, signs of the project’s progress are visible; for better or for worse, the long needed downtown relief line (albeit by another name) is closer than it’s ever been to actually being realized.
Mar 28, 2016 · City staff outlined six possible corridors for a downtown relief line with a preferred route along Queen St. to Pape station. Here’s an interactive look at the options
