Work continues on eliminating the jog in Dufferin Street at Queen. Ever since 1897, Queen Street has passed straight under the railroad tracks where it meets Dufferin Street, but those wishing to travel through on Dufferin have been sent scrambling along a detour that includes Queen Street, Gladstone Avenue, and Peel Avenue. The situation has made traffic difficult in the area throughout living memory. 

The City of Toronto has wanted to eliminate the bottleneck for years, and a $40 Million construction job now underway and expected to be completed in August will see that dream come to fruition. Current underuse of the rail corridor has meant that rail traffic has been accommodated by shifting the rails to one side of the corridor while the excavation and bridges on the opposite side were constructed. When all is done, Dufferin Street will have a concrete bases that could someday support a streetcar line, while GO Transit will have a rail corridor wide enough for 6 tracks and capable of carrying a huge increase in the number of daily trains. Looking north across Queen at the future Dufferin connection.

A close-up of workers on the project:

The site of the next connection from the north side:

Looking closer at Dufferin's future tunnel under the tracks: