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GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

Got a number of personal laughing at Kennedy GO Station today who were busy working on the station like others working on the Crosstown station, considering it was July 1st.

I asked if the station was still on schedule to open July 26 as noted by Metrolinx that got them laughing. They said, take a look around to see it will not be. I asked this question based on what I saw from the overpass. Most likely will still be working on the station after it opens July 26, since no trains during the day and on the weekend. Another haft complete project to get it into service to look good.

The station is only a haft a platform until the SRT ramp is removed X date down the road. They were working on steel framing for the 2nd track going over the Crosstown Line tunnel. Still have to pour concrete for this bridge. The signal mast in place for the 2nd track to the north and south of the switch for the 2nd track to the north. Still have to cut in 2 switches at each end of the platform, as well install the 2nd track using concrete ties. Saw no signal mast at the south end, though the north one is for both direction.

Will be late fall before the elevator is install at the south end. Long walk to get to/from the new platform from either TTC Kennedy Station or from the east. You will have to exit/enter TTC station from the west end and walk to/from GO platform. No sign of stair or elevator from the current tunnel under GO Track or plan for. I can see space north of the accessibility platform for another car or 2, but that it.
 
June 28
Agincourt Station
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Milliken GO Station
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I'm wondering if anyone knows the current status of the Bloomington Rd GO station. Is it still on track to open this year?
 
Thanks for sharing the video, coolstar.

I'm quite curious how a project this massive got approved. This is basically a gold plated station with a constrained site, no transit connections, prohibited development, and no planned increase in service beyond the six trains. One of the reasons mentioned was adding parking to relieve demand at other stations, but the trip is 10 minutes longer. I'd imagine people are just going to keep on doing what they're already doing (hide and ride I assume) and save themselves 20 minutes of extra commute every day.
 
There might have been a case for Gormley, just one interchange to the south, especially if it was served by a new dedicated yard (which it is).

But there’s no case for Gormley and the Garage Mahal up the 404, even if your business model is attracting drivers with massive quantities of free, subsidized parking.
 
July 1
Kennedy GO Station with more up om site
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Thanks for sharing the video, coolstar.

I'm quite curious how a project this massive got approved. This is basically a gold plated station with a constrained site, no transit connections, prohibited development, and no planned increase in service beyond the six trains. One of the reasons mentioned was adding parking to relieve demand at other stations, but the trip is 10 minutes longer. I'd imagine people are just going to keep on doing what they're already doing (hide and ride I assume) and save themselves 20 minutes of extra commute every day.

Ask Stephen Del Duca. This station is typical of the Garagemahals commissioned in his tenure as Transport Minister.

I hate to say it, the last government was great on grandiose stations that looked good, but got little true expansion started. The current government has put far more money into things that represent system expansion.... ie more track, more capacity. The photo op to open this station will be a lot more eyecatching than the opening of the double track to it.... but which matters more?

- Paul
 
Ask Stephen Del Duca. This station is typical of the Garagemahals commissioned in his tenure as Transport Minister.

I hate to say it, the last government was great on grandiose stations that looked good, but got little true expansion started. The current government has put far more money into things that represent system expansion.... ie more track, more capacity. The photo op to open this station will be a lot more eyecatching than the opening of the double track to it.... but which matters more?

- Paul
Maybe this government should cut ribbons for every section of the double tracks?
 
The current government has put far more money into things that represent system expansion.... ie more track, more capacity. The photo op to open this station will be a lot more eyecatching than the opening of the double track to it.... but which matters more?

- Paul

Yeah.....I'm not buying that.

Until the Coronavirus outbreak, they were doing their damnedest to limit operating costs or even cutting them. Remember the uproar about cancelling a bunch of GO bus routes? Well, while many of those cuts got postponed or cancelled, they still went ahead with the service cuts elsewhere on the system. Those dollars had to be saved somewhere, and so long as the masses didn't make a stink about it they were happy with it.

Dan
 
Yeah.....I'm not buying that.

Until the Coronavirus outbreak, they were doing their damnedest to limit operating costs or even cutting them. Remember the uproar about cancelling a bunch of GO bus routes? Well, while many of those cuts got postponed or cancelled, they still went ahead with the service cuts elsewhere on the system. Those dollars had to be saved somewhere, and so long as the masses didn't make a stink about it they were happy with it.

Dan

True, they have cut a few things. Hamilton LRT being the biggest example. And bus routes. But.....capital spending towards Kitchener GO? Bowmanville? Niagara? Davenport Diamond? Barrie GO? Bayview area GO ? Confederation GO? Finch LRT? Hurontario LRT? 15 minute LSE/LSW?

When Ford was first elected, many believed that all of these were dead.

Maybe I should say it differently.....the current government halted a long list of capital projects (which the previous government had claimed to be advancing, but were showing no progress towards) and reviewed them. Then they allowed some to proceed, and some not. The projects they allowed to proceed are reaching construction phase.

From my perspective, concrete progress on 50% of the promise list is better than continued inaction on the full 100% of 2016.

Believe me, I’m holding my nose as I say it....but there is a lot more underway today than Del Duca ever actually took action on. He was all talk.

- Paul
 

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