smably
Senior Member
A crew was hard at work this afternoon spreading and compacting gravel for the fourth track. I just missed getting a shot of the giant dump truck dropping its final load of gravel for the day.
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Cycling: West Toronto Railpath (City of Toronto, Phase II Proposed)
smably
Senior Member
I emailed the city and Metrolinx recently to try to find some info on construction timelines for the railpath extension south of Dundas and got some conflicting replies.
The city says:
Meanwhile, Metrolinx says:
I assume that the city can't get started on construction until Metrolinx is done in the corridor, so say the city starts work in the middle of 2024, 2.5 years takes us to early 2026 for opening day. They've been studying this since 2012, so best case we're looking at 14 years to build a bike path. I am frustrated!
Metrolinx deserves a lot of the blame for the delays, but why does it take 2.5 years to build a path?
The city says:
Meanwhile, Metrolinx says:
I assume that the city can't get started on construction until Metrolinx is done in the corridor, so say the city starts work in the middle of 2024, 2.5 years takes us to early 2026 for opening day. They've been studying this since 2012, so best case we're looking at 14 years to build a bike path. I am frustrated!
Metrolinx deserves a lot of the blame for the delays, but why does it take 2.5 years to build a path?
PL1
Active Member
See also the East Don Valley trails. There is a tunnel and bridge (iirc) that ML has had to approve/allow for 2-3 years. Very frustrating
Northern Light
Superstar
robmausser
Senior Member
Its the same story but other reasons in other areas.
The Pharmacy Road Finch Hydro corridor trail expansion is being held up by utility companies
The project was slated to begin construction in 2018.
www.toronto.ca
The Pharmacy Road Finch Hydro corridor trail expansion is being held up by utility companies
The project was slated to begin construction in 2018.
Finch Corridor Trail - Birchmount Road to Pharmacy Avenue
The City of Toronto is planning to build a multi-use trail along the Finch Hydro Corridor from Birchmount Road to Pharmacy Avenue . This trail connection will run 1.6 km within the hydro corridor on the south side of McNicoll Avenue (see map tab). The trail will provide a safe route for...
www.toronto.ca
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Its the same story but other reasons in other areas.
The Pharmacy Road Finch Hydro corridor trail expansion is being held up by utility companies
The project was slated to begin construction in 2018.
Finch Corridor Trail - Birchmount Road to Pharmacy Avenue
The City of Toronto is planning to build a multi-use trail along the Finch Hydro Corridor from Birchmount Road to Pharmacy Avenue . This trail connection will run 1.6 km within the hydro corridor on the south side of McNicoll Avenue (see map tab). The trail will provide a safe route for...
Any excuse to delay, delay, delay. Hoping that it would be forgotten about.
Northern Light
Superstar
Its the same story but other reasons in other areas.
The Pharmacy Road Finch Hydro corridor trail expansion is being held up by utility companies
The project was slated to begin construction in 2018.
Finch Corridor Trail - Birchmount Road to Pharmacy Avenue
The City of Toronto is planning to build a multi-use trail along the Finch Hydro Corridor from Birchmount Road to Pharmacy Avenue . This trail connection will run 1.6 km within the hydro corridor on the south side of McNicoll Avenue (see map tab). The trail will provide a safe route for...
I don't know how much I should say here..........but I'll say something........
HONI signed off on this corridor early on..........
What took ages was getting the two pipeline companies lined up.
Except, when the pipeline companies finally fell into place, the original agreement to proceed with HONI had expired.
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There's a bit more to it, but I'll think I'll leave it there, for now....
Northern Light
Superstar
I'm reading the Transportation Services Capital Budget as currently proposed. The applicable bit is below, which I will follow with an explainer:
Explainer: The Highlighted column on the left is the 2023 proposed budget number, followed b 2024 and 2025 as you shift right.
The good new then is the first couple of number express a tentative commitment to $20M to be spent in-year on this project, which would indicate construction moving ahead, as per @smably 's post.
But what to make of that -10M at the bottom? The Capital budget of every department is littered with these; I believe these are place-holder cuts if the Feds/Province don't fill the 900M gap in the budget; but I will seek to confirm that.
* Edit: Still confirming the exact reason for the placeholder, looking into this may take a few days.
Have confirmed the intent is to proceed with work this year, IF Mx can finish their work in time.
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bedoozled
New Member
I'm already lamenting the loss of one of the only continuous, routinely snow plowed walking/running routes in the west end with the closure of the Bloor segment since January (more easily navigable on foot via the GO station, but crossing Bloor there is nigh on impossible) but does anyone have info on why the bottom of the Railpath is closed?? Map is unclear & no info besides the Bloor closure when I tried to go on it today. Pic taken on 03/15. 
facepalming_brooklynite
Active Member
That's been happening or a few weeks, but seemingly only on weekdaysI'm already lamenting the loss of one of the only continuous, routinely snow plowed walking/running routes in the west end with the closure of the Bloor segment since January (more easily navigable on foot via the GO station, but crossing Bloor there is nigh on impossible) but does anyone have info on why the bottom of the Railpath is closed?? Map is unclear & no info besides the Bloor closure when I tried to go on it today. Pic taken on 03/15.
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Northern Light
Superstar
I'm already lamenting the loss of one of the only continuous, routinely snow plowed walking/running routes in the west end with the closure of the Bloor segment since January (more easily navigable on foot via the GO station, but crossing Bloor there is nigh on impossible) but does anyone have info on why the bottom of the Railpath is closed?? Map is unclear & no info besides the Bloor closure when I tried to go on it today. Pic taken on 03/15.
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Here you go:
Should re-open next week.
rdaner
Senior Member
Thanks! Sculptures?!
crs1026
Superstar
rdaner
Senior Member
Thanks! I am familiar with these. For a minute I thought that we were getting new sculpture.
Public Art — Friends of the West Toronto Railpath
www.railpath.ca
- Paul
rdaner
Senior Member
Don’t know if this is new but just saw what looks like work on the Railpath south of Dundas West. Photo taken 2 April.
