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I noticed that nobody has posted an update here based on the schedule changes planned for September 4, so I will add one. The full article is on my site at: https://stevemunro.ca/2022/08/20/ttc-service-changes-effective-september-4-2022/ The 501 Queen car will be extended west from Bathurst to...

In the construction notice, the City says that the King car will continue to turn back from Dufferin Loop. The Queen car will be extended west to Dufferin in September and then to Sunnyside in October.

Tender calls for track work specify whether they require complete excavation or only the top layer. Recent tenders show full excavation for the intersections of Church & Carlton, and King & Shaw, but only top layer excavation for the coming College Street project. Queen was done largely top...

Do you have a link to a current notice with this time frame? The platform realignments were always part of "stage 3" when the junction at the north gate to the carhouse was to be rebuilt, but this stage won't begin until September thanks to overall delays. It would make sense to do the work now...

The changeover to stage 2 has occurred as planned: https://stevemunro.ca/2021/11/14/king-queen-queensway-roncesvalles-moves-to-phase-2/ even though the TTC's out-of-date "new" website does not know about this yet.

According to the City's website, the switchover from stage 1 to stage 2 where King will be closed and Queen open will begin on Saturday Nov 13.

The City's web page has been further updated: "The City’s contractor is currently finalizing Stage 1 work. The move to Stage 2 construction is now expected to begin the week of November 8, 2021."

The city's web page for this project has had the following notice for over a week: "The City’s contractor is currently finalizing Stage 1 work. The move to Stage 2 construction is now expected to take place on October 28, 2021." Stage 2 is the point where through traffic resumes on Queen and...

In ye olden days, a walk from Exhibition Loop to Ontario Place was not bad except ... when the Indy made a straight route impassible or the Ex (including its setup and tear down period) completely blocked the route. I remember having to walk in from roughly Fleet Loop because that "not anything...

Once upon a time, there was a scheme to put the "new" Exhibition Loop at Ontario Place who nixed the idea because ... wait for it ... the loop would reduce the amount of parking on their site. There was also a scheme to put the loop under the Trade Centre, but the City wouldn't pay for it. So...

There are a few things going on here. First, Metrolinx talks a good line about working with the private sector and especially about Transit Oriented Communities, but they prefer to just take property and maximize profits for themselves to offset capital costs. With Corktown Station, it's City...

This issue was raised by Metrolinx, including the explanation about the overpass heights, in a community group meeting and later passed on to me. I expect a reply from Metrolinx to a series of questions about this change on Monday, and will update the article accordingly. I do not publish...

Metrolinx has taken to using the cross section just north of the Jimmie Simpson Centre because it is the widest point of the corridor and therefore makes their proposal look the least intrusive. The area further south close to and at Queen has almost no space outside of Metrolinx property and...

I didn't "decide to compare" anything unfairly. Metrolinx has made a point of talking up the landscaped wall as a way to soften the effect of the widened corridor. Now, poof, it has vanished. So they offered something they are not planning to build. Bait and switch. The Metrolinx way.

This was considered during the Transit City studies for the Don Mills LRT. There are problems. First, the bridge does not have a lower deck like the Viaduct. Here is a view of the structure from the DVP...

Metrolinx has sent many conflicting signals about property that will be affected as opposed to "taken". They are evasive about land they might occupy (having to tear down the current trees, etc) in order to build on their corridor. When they show finished versions of the line these do not reveal...

Metrolinx explicitly did not want intersection names for stations, and that's why we have so many stations with odd-seeming names rather than the more obvious xx-Eglinton construction.

When I see things like that where the "look" is very professional, but the content is way off the mark, I can't help wondering if there is a very misguided client and an equally misguided professional planner, or just a fan who is good at assembling images, The problem is that this type of thing...

I don't know what alignment study these folks were using, but they have at least two stations in the wrong locations. King/Bathurst shows a north-south tunnel alignment that has been changed in current designs. The obvious errors in so recent a document cannot be explained by timing, only by...

The last reconstruction was done in 2000. There are photos of it in my April 2020 article: https://stevemunro.ca/2020/04/18/planned-changes-to-king-queen-roncesvalles-and-the-queensway-for-2021/ (scroll down to the gallery at the end).