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Another angle of a bridge section. Taken 18 December.

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innsertnamehere said:
they use a conveyor belt system for spoils, it's not a particularly complicated endeavor nor is it particularly expensive. I imagine that the cost of running seperate spoils collection facilities at each station far outweighs the extra transport distance.

The plan is for all spoils to be managed at Exhibition as far as I know.
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Plus you don't want trucks running in and out of different places as you'd need to set up wholly different safety / transport protocols and noise abatement measures for each.
 
nfitz said:
Good grief - please read for context. I was very clear for the dismissing the Leslieville/Riverside context, and I noted the relatively short distance between the other 4 station - from Queen/Spadina to Moss Park.


Simply because we disagree about the utility of 4 of the 8 stations that are somewhat proximate to Queen Street, does not give you the right to be so over the top rude and offensive. I really don't think anyone coming from the west pn a 501, is going to get off at Bathurst/King and walk up to Bathurst/Queen to get a 501!


Indeed no one has mentioned it all - including myself.


I'm not being disingenuous. But surely going on about my counting the travel of 3 stops from Spadina to Moss Park (1 Osgood, 2 Yonge, 3 Moss Park) with such an inexcusably personal attack is not on. Heck, even if you mistook my response as being disingenuous, on a scale of 1 to 10, that's a 2 or 3. Making personal insults is a 9.


Do you think people travelling to Queen and Yonge are going to get off a 501 at Parliament, walk down to south of King, through FOUR busy traffic lights (personally I walk that all the time when there's no 504 coming, and it always seems to take forever to cross Richmond and Adelaide in particular).

And where do you get 250 metres? The distance from the centre of Queen/Parliament to King/Parliament is 330 metres. Bur the station entrance is not at King/Parliament! The station is on Berkeley, not Parliament.

The one entrance is on Berkeley, about 30 metres south of King. The other is about 15 metres south of King, and 35 metres east of Berkeley.

The walking distance from the Queen/Parliament westbound streetcar stop to the station doors is over 445 metres! It's not 250 metres, and it's not 2 minutes. I've waited many times for 2 minutes to cross at Richmond, and then another 2 minutes at Adelaide (it seems the lights are timed so that you always hit both walking, unless you run - what have you observed walking down Parliament Street).

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If you want to get off at Queen/Parliament and walk 445 metres to Corktown station, why not instead walk the 460 metres (and only 2 traffic lights) to Moss Park station? Or stay on the 501 for only 2 stops?
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Agree and this is the dumbest topic ever. Who knows what life will be like when those few stops (they aren’t in a straight line) will support some Queen street traffic. We don’t know what we don’t know including whether the OL will even ever be completed. Next topic,
 
Here's some updates from yesterday.

Starting with Exhibition portal/launch shaft. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that looks like the innards of a TBM, so its installation might be underway. I posted a Q&A earlier that included that the TBM arrives in 150 pieces so it makes sense that it doesn't have it's cylinder shape yet if this is actually part of it.
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Lower Don Crossing
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East Harbour Station:
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Eastern Bridge:
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Gerrard Station/portal/launch shaft
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hawc said:
Thanks!! Windy out this morning. Couldn't go high, so had to go low! ;)

This is the section directly behind the Science Centre.

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Yep, that's the West Don Crossing. I believe the pier in your picture is D3.
The tracks that run next to the OMSF is the Walmsley Brook Crossing, but I can't seem to find a map right now that labels it as such.
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hawc said:
Thanks!! Windy out this morning. Couldn't go high, so had to go low! ;)

This is the section directly behind the Science Centre.

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The mini is stronger than you think, @hawc . My mini3pro was able to hold it's own at 83m on a couple of multi km round trip flights this morning.
 
hawc said:
Cast-in-place spans will be interesting to see built. We're so used to seeing pre-cast spans trucked int and lifted into place. This will be very cool.
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I am not sure it's the most exciting.
For Highway bridges this Balanced Cantilever method has been done several times.
- Kipling over Lakeshore GO (~ 1978).
- QEW Burlington Bay Skyway (~1983)
- Hwy 406 Twelve Mile Creek (~1984 - only one in Precast).
- Upper Middle over 16 Mile Creek Oakville (~1993).
- Fairway Road, Kitchener over Grand River (~2010)
- William Halton Pkwy over Sixteen Mile Creek Oakville (~2026).
- Hwy 7 New over Grand River (pending).

This most recent one will show what they will be doing.
https://www.botconstruction.ca/project/william-halton-parkway-oakville/

If extended from Eglinton to Finch - I think they will use pre-cast.
 
kotsy said:
Starting with Exhibition portal/launch shaft. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that looks like the innards of a TBM, so its installation might be underway. I posted a Q&A earlier that included that the TBM arrives in 150 pieces so it makes sense that it doesn't have it's cylinder shape yet if this is actually part of it.
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Sure is! Those are the first couple of gantries that make up the TBM, they house all the ancillary equipment like electrical cabinets, ventilation boosters, hydraulic pumps, etc.

And that star-shaped thing at the front of the shaft isn't part of the TBM unfortunately, that would be part of the launch cradle they use to position and brace the machine during its first pushes into the ground.
 
Space Gary said:
Sure is! Those are the first couple of gantries that make up the TBM, they house all the ancillary equipment like electrical cabinets, ventilation boosters, hydraulic pumps, etc.

And that star-shaped thing at the front of the shaft isn't part of the TBM unfortunately, that would be part of the launch cradle they use to position and brace the machine during its first pushes into the ground.
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Awesome! TBM milestone achieved. Thanks for all your insight.
 
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