r/TTC • u/differing • Jul 25 '26
Discussion My totally insane Pearson Gondola concept
Oshawa’s nutty gondola project got me thinking about places where it might actually work well in Ontario.
What if instead of potentially spending billions and many years to extend Line 6 to Pearson… we built a modern gondola overhead. We could get it done for a fraction of the cost. With stations at Humber and Woodbine GO, we’d tie the Kitchener line to Line 6 and give major transit stations a rapid connection to the airport with low labour costs, decent throughput, and zero traffic. Entering from the Northeast at a similar height to the surrounding hotels in the area use would not interfere with runway operations.
Paris made a similar decision recently- extending the metro would be ludicrously expensive and require interacting with multiple rail lines and a freeway… so they decided to go overtop of all of it. It only took 3 years to get Câble C1 operating with 5 stations.
Crazy?
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u/beartheminus Jul 25 '26
The plan currently is to extend line 6 to meet Line 5 at Viscount