Toronto Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

[steveintoronto]

^ English has a superb preposition for just these occasions, and it has two letters, and is is phonetically pronounced as per spelling: "At". And if you wish to shorten it even more in writing, there's "@".

When using the crossroads to denote the station's name, it would be Bloor @ OSSINGTON or the like. The intersection is capitalized, the common name of the route or line is in lower case. I need a coffee for that...

Locale can still be added as per above: Bloor @ BAY for YORKVILLE. Where a location isn't easily defined by street intersection, Line 2 @ OLD MILL for Humber River

 

[Toronto1834]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1072520176833306625

 

[Leo_Chan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1072520176833306625

Oh, so I was wrong in a previous post saying Mount Dennis Station had tracks in place for testing.

 

[Amare]

Just about perfect. The dominant labeling as Bay makes clear where the station is while the sub-heading name refers to a locale.

It's too bad that Metrolinx's consultants couldnt figure that one out. What even more embarassing is that they had to pay consultants to come up with station names, and the only thing those consultants did was use the exact same naming coventions Metrolinx currently uses to name stations.

 

[TransitBart]

Same thing for Keelesdale and whatever the heck they decided to name the station on Dufferin.

Fairbank. And I never heard of it either...

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

This has been done before. Bay Station was and is labeled BAY - Yorkville as seen in the attached image from Wikipedia. Bay is the cross-street while Yorkville was the neighbourhood. I believe this was done in response to the interlining experiment wherein they wanted to replicate the naming system along university .View attachment 165957

They should do this on the Crosstown, but Metrolinx has there own naming rules...

 

[W. K. Lis]

When do we expect to see the first trains start testing?

Now that the last ION Flexity Freedom has been delivered to Waterloo, the attention now turns to Crosstown manufacturing and deliver;y.

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

When do we expect to see the first trains start testing?

I think they currently have two of the prototype units ready and are planning to bring them to the maintenance facility to begin testing three and also use the first bit of the line from there as it's finished.

 

[crs1026]

It’s a little soon to be stressing about LRV delivery. This and similar issues are the bigger concern. There are some pretty huge holes out there along the line - need to start a station by station watchlist of progress.

- Paul

 

[KevinT]

It’s a little soon to be stressing about LRV delivery. This and similar issues are the bigger concern.

Councillor Josh Matlow: “The overwhelming response is of tremendous concern, principally because of the incursion of traffic that will result from this.” So he's concerned about traffic but wants to delay the opening of the system that reduces it. Right.

 

[JasonParis]

While I don't agree with Matlow, I also sense that he represents some of the hardest to deal with homeowners within the 416.

 

[BurlOak]

It’s a little soon to be stressing about LRV delivery. This and similar issues are the bigger concern. There are some pretty huge holes out there along the line - need to start a station by station watchlist of progress.

- Paul

Street closure designed to speed up Eglinton Crosstown construction postponed

So the advantage of deep bore TBM construction is less surface disruption than cut-and-cover.?
It is becoming apparent that TBM construction has many negatives that don't get mentioned during EA, while the advantages of cut-and-cover are ignored.

 

[Bureaucromancer]

So the advantage of deep bore TBM construction is less surface disruption than cut-and-cover.?
It is becoming apparent that TBM construction has many negatives that don't get mentioned during EA, while the advantages of cut-and-cover are ignored.

It's one of those archetypal Toronto things. Any mention of cut and cover gets instantly shouted down by people with photos of Yonge street in 1951. But no one remembers the last project we tunneled.

 

[micheal_can]

Councillor Josh Matlow: “The overwhelming response is of tremendous concern, principally because of the incursion of traffic that will result from this.” So he's concerned about traffic but wants to delay the opening of the system that reduces it. Right.

While I don't agree with Matlow, I also sense that he represents some of the hardest to deal with homeowners within the 416.

"Lt's make traffic much worse to them nake it better." For a politicain who always worries about getting reelected, that would not make sense.

 

[denfromoakvillemilton]

So the advantage of deep bore TBM construction is less surface disruption than cut-and-cover.?
It is becoming apparent that TBM construction has many negatives that don't get mentioned during EA, while the advantages of cut-and-cover are ignored.

When the Bloor Danforth and Sheppard extensions are built, it should be cut and cover to eliminate delays.