Recent content by Mr Finish Line

I really wish this is true. I'm pretty sure that alone unlocks 4 tph. I think that's all been done. There is a bunch of new-ish nicely routed cabling all the way from Agincourt station down to the creek that was installed I think 2 years ago.

He spends time talking about why he moved from the port of Montreal to this project. They talk about TGF vs TGV. He talks about the Eurostar between Paris and Amsterdam as being the example they want to be compared to, which he says runs at 200km/h. The interviewer asks about Paris to Marseilles...

That grey building on the northwest corner is brand new. They had just started putting up the frame as the Ontario Line was announced. For some unexplainable reason they continued construction to completion, even though it's going to be knocked down within a year or 2. What a waste of money and...

Anyone else notice how they kept writing "three new [GO] tracks" for the new bridge, but the render showed 4 tracks, and Metrolinx plan for the joint corridor is 4 tracks for GO and 2 for OL?

I've been to all the grade crossings on the Stouffville Line south of Unionville recently and only Finch is in progress via the new station there. There is also Havendale Rd which needs to be closed with a ped bridge/tunnel built and Kennedy Rd north of Steeles where it jogs around the tracks...

It's still partially standing as of Sunday when I drove past it. I only saw them ripping apart the southern side.

Another CBC vid by Paige Saunders ft Reece Martin

I thought @reaperexpress did an analysis that showed they could run trains every 1/2 hour with the second meeting point being south of West Highland Creek bridge where the double tracking is basically complete all they way to Kennedy. At least that part would get used, and the upgraded stations...

I'm continuing to maintain my theory that the cutting of Stouffville all-day/weekend service had nothing to do with Stouffville and everything to do with the Joint Corridor aka LSE/Ontario Line. The progress on the Stouffville portion was negligible. But on the Joint Corridor section it's down...

That would make more sense then for designing the current platform height. Still sucks that a station opening in 2025 *still* has the old platform height. Every time we build a new station or renovate an old one, even if we design it to make retrofitting higher platforms easier, it adds $$, all...

I'm assuming that Exhibition station won't be open until the OL opens, so 2030 or later. I'm also assuming that the move to level boarding will be a transition, i.e. there will be rolling stock capable of handle both platform heights. The platform height design in Ex station tells me that ML is...

Uhhhh has anyone noticed that Exhibition station clearly looks like it does not have level boarding and is still on the current platform height??

Can a bunch of people tweet at Metrolinx and ask them what's going on with the bridge? I'm curious to see how they respond.

For reference, the same bridge 13 months ago.

As promised, here is a drone vid of the West Highland Creek Bridge (lack of) progress, taken last weekend.