Recent content by tnarduzzi

Uncertainty re: L3 future and possible L2 to STC maybe?

I was wondering the same thing, the Eg station thread has a bit of an update. Platform shift has apparently been minimized to leave the pocket track. https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/toronto-crosstown-lrt-eglinton-station-m-1s-metrolinx-ibi-group.26480/page-27#post-1898518

Excellent clarification! Thank yoh

Drum do you have any insight what the problems at yonge station are exactly?

Good point. The brown tile might not be platform level at all! It has been a very long time since I was there. But most TTC platforms are terrazzo iirc? My comments are based on assumption that Urban Chairman’s photos are on platform level looking north at the new escalator I circled in this...

The govt and the consortium are now fighting over cost over runs. Reporting of leaked documents back early December confirmed as much. I suspect that they “bite off more than they could chew” with regard to the original designs and then throw the PPP model into the mix and nobody wants to pickup...

Indefinitely delayed seems more than just poor utility locates.

“Ohhhh Union”

Hopefully those are direct platform to platform to new concourse circulation. Worst case will be routing pax up to existing concourse and then down to new concourse. It always seemed a bit ambitious to me to keep L1 open while also undermining and building the new L5 concourse while also...

Going off the photos posted by urban chaiman above it looks a lot to me like they built passageways north of existing platforms but did not move the platforms themselves. Thats just from looking at those three photos but that escalator appears to have walls on three sides (north east and west)...

That doorway you are looking through is the north wall of the existing Yonge line station box? It looks to me like the northbound platform shift is no longer happening… My long shot guess is that the platform shift not happening is related to the delays. Hope they didn’t have to sacrifice too...

I am starting to think they found Jimmy Hoffa down there

Also, anybody got pics of platform level at Eg on Yonge line? Wasnt the whole platform supposed the shift northwards, hows that going?

Didnt they only just cap off the structural concrete on concourse level? Backfill even started yet? Smh what a boondoggle. Who was the engineering firm who did Yonge—Eg? Cause tbh they kinda #**%@ it big time imo

Im still waiting for Union 😂