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

[drum118]

Nov 06
Having a York Region Station roof and enclose will be a lot better than the cheap stations being built.

Couldn't get a close look at the Laird Station under construction due lack of access and safety.

By the looks of things, a double crossover will be put in at the Laird Portal.

 

[micheal_can]

What is the concrete there for?

 

[marcus_a_j]

What is the concrete there for?

They are supports for new stairs between Eglinton and E.T. Seton Park.

 

[reteequa]

Nov 06
Don Mills and Eglinton Intersection been place back to what it was before construction stated. Last of the lanes to the east being pour with the rest of the area waiting asphalting.

Only the southbound Don Mills lanes and Eglinton lanes need to be built that will connect to the west-east section already done.

Overhead in place from DVP to Laird Dr including the station by the looks of things.

Cycle tracks???

 

[Voltz]

They should take a cue from.... VIVA and build fully covered stations.

As well as building decent physical barriers to stop vehicles from ending up on the platforms,

These surface stops strike me as being designed by someone who only thought of how cute or modern they look, rather than giving any thought to functionality, safety. comfort or common sense.

 

[H4F33Z]

Cycle tracks???

Nope, just buffered bike lanes. You can blame Metrolinx's backward thinking for that. There is however, potential to put protection in at a later date. It's important to know, that all LRT projects after the Crosstown include cycle tracks

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

As well as building decent physical barriers to stop vehicles from ending up on the platforms,

These surface stops strike me as being designed by someone who only thought of how cute or modern they look, rather than giving any thought to functionality, safety. comfort or common sense.

Same old, same old. Insufficient funding and the lack of political will to do things properly for transit.

 

[reteequa]

Nope, just buffered bike lanes. You can blame Metrolinx's backward thinking for that. There is however, potential to put protection in at a later date. It's important to know, that all LRT projects after the Crosstown include cycle tracks

Thats good at least. I could have sworn there were renderings of cycle tracks near the western stations

 

[H4F33Z]

Thats good at least. I could have sworn there were renderings of cycle tracks near the western stations

Because there will be... in front of the station areas. Crosslinx has been contracted with paving the cycle tracks in front of the station buildings and intersections only. The city will fill in the rest of the non-station areas later as part of a bigger plan called "Eglinton Connects" (unfunded).

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

As well as building decent physical barriers to stop vehicles from ending up on the platforms,

Why do people seem to think that there are going to be cars somehow ending up on the tracks?This isn't as poorly designed as Queens Quay was when waterfront Toronto made a mess of it.

 

[nfitz]

Why do people seem to think that there are going to be cars somehow ending up on the tracks?This isn't as poorly designed as Queens Quay was when waterfront Toronto made a mess of it.

Unless there's going to be gates at every intersection where the tracks cross roads, I have no doubt that some people will turn down the tracks. Though probably few places they'll actually get into a portal, as the road crossings aren't near portals.

Look at the Lakeshore and Bathurst intersection. People end up driving on the tracks on Bathurst south of Lakeshore all the time - but it seldom if ever makes the news.

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

Unless there's going to be gates at every intersection where the tracks cross roads, I have no doubt that some people will turn down the tracks. Though probably few places they'll actually get into a portal, as the road crossings aren't near portals.

Look at the Lakeshore and Bathurst intersection. People end up driving on the tracks on Bathurst south of Lakeshore all the time - but it seldom if ever makes the news.

Bathurst and lakeshore is completely different as you have the tracks from being in the middle of the road on one side of the street to being in a right of way. If you look at the surface section of the crosstown line someone would have to intently drive off of the road into them as they have concrete curbs along them. In some places they are higher than the road ways.

 

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[Monarch Butterfly]

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Still status quo with the transit signals. Just in case an automobile ends up on the tracks.

What about artificial grass? Against a Toronto by-law it seems. See link.

 

[reteequa]

Because there will be... in front of the station areas. Crosslinx has been contracted with paving the cycle tracks in front of the station buildings and intersections only. The city will fill in the rest of the non-station areas later as part of a bigger plan called "Eglinton Connects" (unfunded).

I know that but I had commented on the posts about science Center, it did not look like there were any cycle tracks in front of that station.