{"id":3399,"date":"2008-07-24T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/07\/24\/poll-should-eglinton-be-an-lrt-route-or-a-subway-line\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:48:11","slug":"poll-should-eglinton-be-an-lrt-route-or-a-subway-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/07\/24\/poll-should-eglinton-be-an-lrt-route-or-a-subway-line\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Should Eglinton be an LRT route or a subway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/159\/430691820_82b76d0649.jpg\" height=\"404\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>A Spacing-produced rendering of LRT service on Eglinton east of Laird <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some of you may have saw the article in our headlines post about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20080724.wmetrolinx24\/BNStory\/National\/Ontario\/\">TTC and Metrolinx being at odds<\/a> over what form of mass transit should be developed on Eglinton Avenue. The TTC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/transitcity.ca\">Transit City plans<\/a> call for LRT service (streetcars, but faster and stops spaced out like a subway line) from the Pearson airport in the west to Kennedy Station in the east, with a buried section from Keele to Laird.<\/p>\n<p>We want to know what Spacing readers think?  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