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[Voltz]

Good question.... I guess it depends on what needs to be delivered, and whether it can come thru the tunnel (once the TBM has passed) or has to be lowered thru a hole in the roof.

The biggest thing that I can think of are escalator or elevator components, and I have no idea how those are handled.

HVAC and electrical switchgear, maybe.....?

- Paul

On the Crosstown they were delivering assembled escalators through the tunnels.

 

[crs1026]

@nfitz - True….but as I understand it, the TBMs are capable of passing thru a pre-excavated station void. There is no need to wait until after the tbm has passed to finish the badic box of a station.

- Paul

 

[whatever]

Driving home I noticed the bridgework for the Lower Don bridge is progressing. The first pair of falsework uprights to support the arch have been installed, so we may see that take shape pretty soon

 

[abp10]

Some shots on the Lower Don River Trail, right around Milwood Bridge, as shown from the pictures

 

[jordanmkasla2009]

I thought the TBMs were simply going to be moved through the already open excavation. Two TBMs I hope - I thought they learned their Line 2 single-TBM mistake.

The TBMs will be passing through each of the station boxes, after stopping for maintenance, inspection and having more conveyor pieces installed. Both TBMs for the south tunnels are being launched from Exhibition and extracted from the cut and cover tunnel near the Don Yard.

 

[nightstreak]

Seeing construction of station boxes progressing quickly, it's finally dawning on me that this is actually happening. People my age have seen so many false starts, long term promises, and politicians catering to the suburbs with overbuilt subway stubs of questionable necessity while the demand for subways downtown was ignored for decades — and now here we are, a subway across downtown is being built. Like, for real.

Aside from the very positive effects it'll have on mobility across downtown, I'm wondering what effect it'll have at street level, particularly on Queen. More people and bustling shops? Highrises transforming Queen Street from its small town feeling to a canyon? Fewer cars or more as percentage of drivers remain the same but more of them as residential and retail attract more drivers?

Will the Queen 501 survive? I know it's supposed to be maintained but how long will that last as riders begin to adjust to alternate routes. With stations at Queen, Osgoode, Spadina and Bathurst, who would take a streetcar in mixed traffic in that most popular transit stretch? If the volume drops as I think there's a good argument that it will, I can see it becoming 2 routes on either end of the line. Bathurst to Long Branch and Victoria St to Neville Park. Either side has existing loops. The King 504 transit way supports more local stops. Perhaps the N-S lines integrate into the King network with new E-W > N-S hybrid routes.

With 5 years to go that'll be gone in a flash, it's exciting to think of how Downtown Toronto is going to change.

 

[DSCToronto]

Seeing construction of station boxes progressing quickly, it's finally dawning on me that this is actually happening. People my age have seen so many false starts, long term promises, and politicians catering to the suburbs with overbuilt subway stubs of questionable necessity while the demand for subways downtown was ignored for decades — and now here we are, a subway across downtown is being built. Like, for real.

Aside from the very positive effects it'll have on mobility across downtown, I'm wondering what effect it'll have at street level, particularly on Queen. More people and bustling shops? Highrises transforming Queen Street from its small town feeling to a canyon? Fewer cars or more as percentage of drivers remain the same but more of them as residential and retail attract more drivers?

Will the Queen 501 survive? I know it's supposed to be maintained but how long will that last as riders begin to adjust to alternate routes. With stations at Queen, Osgoode, Spadina and Bathurst, who would take a streetcar in mixed traffic in that most popular transit stretch? If the volume drops as I think there's a good argument that it will, I can see it becoming 2 routes on either end of the line. Bathurst to Long Branch and Victoria St to Neville Park. Either side has existing loops. The King 504 transit way supports more local stops. Perhaps the N-S lines integrate into the King network with new E-W > N-S hybrid routes.

With 5 years to go that'll be gone in a flash, it's exciting to think of how Downtown Toronto is going to change.

 

[DSCToronto]

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[T3G]

Will the Queen 501 survive? I know it's supposed to be maintained but how long will that last as riders begin to adjust to alternate routes. With stations at Queen, Osgoode, Spadina and Bathurst, who would take a streetcar in mixed traffic in that most popular transit stretch? If the volume drops as I think there's a good argument that it will, I can see it becoming 2 routes on either end of the line. Bathurst to Long Branch and Victoria St to Neville Park. Either side has existing loops.

This doesn't seem at all realistic. There's always going to be a certain group of passengers who will need to travel from one side of the "divide" to the other, and despite the mixed traffic stretch, there's no way it will be more economical, time wise, to get out, travel into the deep caverns Metrolinx calls stations, wait for a train, then climb out of said cavern elsewhere and wait for another vehicle to resume their journey, unless there is a massive surface disruption.

We've begun to see a move away from this hard line of thinking of Yonge as being an impenetrable boundary with the 996 Wilson Express being extended all the way into Scarborough, it would be a big step backwards to start doing that with the streetcar lines now, especially with the idea that there would be no surface transit, period, between Bathurst and Victoria. Not everyone will be able to walk the distances between those stations.

At most, what I could see happening is two routes/branches with overlapping segments, like they did with the 504, say, Neville - Bathurst and Humber - Parliament, or something to that effect.

Having multiple transit options is good.

With 5 years to go that'll be gone in a flash, it's exciting to think of how Downtown Toronto is going to change.

We were saying similar things about the Crosstown in 2015. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched!

 

[urbanclient]

With 5 years to go that'll be gone in a flash, it's exciting to think of how Downtown Toronto is going to change.

Hate to break it to you, but it's been leaked that the Ontario Line is already years behind schedule. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Ok......with all of the great progress shots, from multiple contributors, but special shout out to @kotsy ......it may seem hard to believe.................

But I have now had some information corroborated by multiple sources.

It appears the O/L will be the latest Mx project to miss its opening date.

The number that I was given, which I don't feel it appropriate to share at this time, is astoundingly bad. While I couldn't verify the precise number, multiple sources agreed Mx will miss its targeted opening of Fall 2031.

Also agreed, was that it won't be particularly close.

Whereas the date in question remains, literally, six years away, i assume Mx has some room to expedite things should the political impetus and budget for that be made to occur.

But in general, delays compound over time, and rarely end up being caught up on.

File under, concern warranted.

 

[81-717]

With 5 years to go that'll be gone in a flash

I feel the same about when the new line 2 fleet should start arriving.

 

[kotsy]

New Pape Station CLC documents are out:

Construction updates:

YouTube link for underpinning explainer (from the Eg Crosstown):

 

[kotsy]

 

[Allandale25]

Via an X post today from the OL:

Ever wondered how crews inspect the bottom of a subway train?Start with a 117-metre-long trench!Crews are excavating “the pit” at the Ontario Line operations & maintenance facility in Thorncliffe Park — where teams will stand beneath trains to inspect them for daily service.

 

[PasticheProtégé]

The trees to be removed