Toronto Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

[TheTigerMaster]

How do you know that’s a station box? Speaking as not a construction guy.

Here is a diagram of the station layout. I've marked where I was standing with the gold star. The photo was taken facing east. The end of the steel structure you see in the photo roughly corresponds to the bounds of the dash lines within the orange box.

Perhaps "station box" might not be the most accurate term, but I'm pretty confident that what I saw is the same thing in this diagram. If somebody knows otherwise, I'm all ears!

 

[Uncle Teddy]

How could it be a station box? That wouldn't have been built yet would it? And it would be much deeper than that.

 

[raptor]

That's my best attempt at capturing the mock up for the station entrances, from a moving GO train. Sorry for the bad quality

 

[torontopeter]

That's my best attempt at capturing the mock up for the station entrances, from a moving GO train. Sorry for the bad quality

The photo is totally uninterpretable.

 

[raptor]

The photo is totally uninterpretable.

Sorry about that. We will all appreciate if you could do a better job. Its at 1130 Caledonia Rd.

 

[Eug]

Video describing the mining done at Laird Station (not cut-and-cover):

Star article: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...-take-shape-with-unique-mining-technique.html

 

[Steve X]

Video describing the mining done at Laird Station (not cut-and-cover):

Star article: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...-take-shape-with-unique-mining-technique.html

The article isn't entirely correct. This is the first time SEM was used to construct a station but not the first time it was used in Toronto. The crossover track at Finch West Station on the TYSSE also used this method.

 

[kotsy]

Great share, thanks!

The article isn't entirely correct. This is the first time SEM was used to construct a station but not the first time it was used in Toronto. The crossover track at Finch West Station on the TYSSE also used this method.

However, they managed to get it right in the video.

 

[Avenue]

Unpopular opinion but did we really need a Chaplin station? That's one too many stations (to serve near non-existent ridership) in Forest Hill.

 

[yin_yang]

Unpopular opinion but did we really need a Chaplin station? That's one too many stations (to serve near non-existent ridership in Forest Hill.

Ya, there are apartments and lots of them right at Chaplin.

 

[Avenue]

Ya, there are apartments and lots of them right at Chaplin.

There are some low-to-mid rises but definitely not that big a ridership potential. And many of those blocks have better proximity to Bathurst-Eglinton than to Chaplin.

 

[yin_yang]

There are some low-to-mid rises but definitely not that big a ridership potential. And many of those blocks have better proximity to Bathurst-Eglinton than to Chaplin.

The density around Chaplin is higher than Avenue Road. I mean, using your argument you could say very few stops have ridership potential. You never know what will happen in the future. Groups of houses get sold, condos get built.

 

[Streety McCarface]

The density around Chaplin is higher than Avenue Road. I mean, using your argument you could say very few stops have ridership potential. You never know what will happen in the future. Groups of houses get sold, condos get built.

Midtown is not bloor street, but I'm honestly less worried about stop spacing in the underground portion and moreso worried about those in the aboveground portion.

 

[Avenue]

Midtown is not bloor street, but I'm honestly less worried about stop spacing in the underground portion and moreso worried about those in the aboveground portion.

I'm very annoyed by the mid-block stops in the east portion too. Don't get me wrong. There are stretches where the train won't even get to accelerate.

 

[hw621]

I'm very annoyed by the mid-block stops in the east portion too. Don't get me wrong. There are stretches where the train won't even get to accelerate.

"Damned streetcars" come to mind lol