Re: Crosslinx & Eglinton Crosstown
I attended a business opportunities meeting hosted by Crosslinx earlier this week and there were some pretty great revelations not mentioned before. For those of you interested, here are some highlights:
-Not all stations will be cut/cover, some will be mined! (More on this below)
- Keele will be the first station built as a pilot and will commence construction March 2016
-construction for the others will commence Summer 2016
-stations will take ~3.5 years to build
They are dividing the line into 6 segments:
1) Mt Dennis, Keele, Kodak Lands, MSF and the portal/Blackcreek Guideway
2) Caledonia, Dufferin, Bathurst, Chaplin, Mt. Pleasant & Caledonia GO
-These will be cut/cover
-Crosslinx wants to get "creative with construction" in order to minimize community impacts and claims they will use cutting edge engineering never used before.
3) Interchange Stations @ Allen & Yonge
4)Oakwood, Avenue, Bayview & Laird
These will be Mined from the Sides instead of Cut & Cover! Very cool!
5) At-Grade Sections
6) Track Work, Catenary Polls, Signaling Etc and the system wide installation