innsertnamehere
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The impact will be huge on the shoulders of Downtown too - getting to places like Liberty Village, Queen West, and the Distillery is going to be comically easy compared to today. Truly a generational project.
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TDSB recommends that Pape Avenue Junior Public School be temporarily relocated due to the OL construction.
Via the local trustee on Instagram:
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The school is a lot further away from the subway tunnelling than the houses. It should be fine after work is complete.That last picture is the reason why those homes were being expropriated. Thats the article that blew up on the news last year
Sounds like MX doesnt want to expropriate the school, but theyre probably going to be forced to anyway
The closure of the school yard is a big part of it I think. the exclusion zoneThe school is a lot further away from the subway tunnelling than the houses. It should be fine after work is complete.
Part of this issue is safety (for the students) with all the vehicles, etc., everywhere. Just look at the most recent (August) photo in Google Streetview.
And this is before they launch the TBMs - I hate to think how much truck traffic there's going to be around there.
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there is definitely a degree of lessons learned in this. even the finch lrt is much better managed though for whatever the last 0.5% just cant get get finished so their commissioning team needs to revamp.Is it just me or does it seem like the Ontario Line project is being better managed than Crosstown? And things are moving more quickly. Whats everyones opinion on this, so far.
Obviously things can change.
I wouldn't be so quick to claim that.Is it just me or does it seem like the Ontario Line project is being better managed than Crosstown? And things are moving more quickly. Whats everyones opinion on this, so far.
Obviously things can change.
Crosslinx wasn't involved with the early years, of the tunnelling. Those contract terms - especially the first, came from TTC and the City.The early years of The Crosstown seemed to move quite well. The tunnel boring moved along very well and without major issues.
Is it just me or does it seem like the Ontario Line project is being better managed than Crosstown? And things are moving more quickly. Whats everyones opinion on this, so far.
Obviously things can change.
I don't believe it has anything to do with oversight. Perhaps having 5 major contracts (in addition to the separate Exhibition station and Toronto Viaduct expansion projects) does make things run faster. On the other hand it creates 7 different weak links.It's this government's signature, very high profile transit project so of course oversight is going to be much better.
I'm hoping to run by there later this week or weekend and will get photos of the WDCBI don't believe it has anything to do with oversight. Perhaps having 5 major contracts (in addition to the separate Exhibition station and Toronto Viaduct expansion projects) does make things run faster. On the other hand it creates 7 different weak links.
Has there been much sign of work for the elevated section between the Don Valley and Science Centre station? I'm not sure how work is going on with the yard/vehicles contract either.
I believe these bridges are being built three tracks wide with a temporary wall on the north/western side. Once this half of the bridges are completed work will move to the north/western side with tear down of the old bridge structures and building of new retaining walls, new berm fill and the other half of the bridges for the other 3 tracks. As I have written earlier the Gerard/Carlaw bridge structure is the only one that doesn’t need to be replaced at the moment because it’s already wide enough for 4 tracks on the GO corridor so the only work that will be done there is the building of the elevated station structure for Line 3 and the portal approach.One serious question - from the aerial shots of those new bridges, it's hard to discern scale - are those new bridges three tracks wide, or four ? Is the plan to shift the rail tracks to the south, and extend the bridgework northwards as a single bridging, or build additional discrete bridges to house the two OL tracks and a fourth GO track ?
- Paul