Fritter
Active Member
I find it sad the amount of graffiti along GO's rail corridors.
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GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)
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AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
What's even sadder isn't the presence of graffiti - but ease by which the corridor gets penetrated by trespassers and what this implies.
AoD
hw621
Senior Member
^lol GO corridors are always barrier free and open to all trespassers...
smallspy
Senior Member
How do you seal off a corridor that by it's very purpose can't be sealed?
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
JasonParis
Moderator
I'm fairly indifferent to it, although do like some of it occasionally. However, if this were any European city, there'd be far more, even in Switzerland.
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timio
Active Member
Some of the graffiti makes the corridor visually appealing on walls and sound barriers that are quite bland looking, not that I advocate for vandalism of any sort. Most of it is ugly, but occasionally you see the piece that could have the artist heading towards a good career if their canvas was more legal.
Fritter
Active Member
My feelings exactly.
kEiThZ
Superstar
In Asia, the TAs own the developments on top of stations and get recurring revenue. Once again, this is government selling a future revenue stream cheaply.
hw621
Senior Member
^like the government ever generates revenue from the tops
drum118
Superstar
Oct 30
Now I am caught up to date on my backlog of Photos, I can some major shooting before the snow flies.
While shooting TTC McNicoll Bus Garage, had a look at the Stouffville line. The grading is completed for the 2nd track to the point the base is down and waiting ties and rail. I have yet to have a look at the Line at Finch, no idea where that 2nd track waiting ties and rail stops.
Now I am caught up to date on my backlog of Photos, I can some major shooting before the snow flies.
While shooting TTC McNicoll Bus Garage, had a look at the Stouffville line. The grading is completed for the 2nd track to the point the base is down and waiting ties and rail. I have yet to have a look at the Line at Finch, no idea where that 2nd track waiting ties and rail stops.
crs1026
Senior Member
Nice stuff.
The ready-for-rail zone runs to just north of the platform at Agincourt. South of that, things are not anywhere nearly as far along, although there's a decent amount of work complete northwards from Kennedy to about Lawrence.
- Paul
TOareaFan
Superstar
A somewhat GO Construction related question.......does anyone know how long GO intends to sit in ownership of all those houses in DT Brampton that they a) bought and b) evicted tenants from and c) boarded up?
There seems to have been no movement on this since the boards went up on the windows and doors and the one thing that DT Brampton did not need was another similarity to abandoned rust belt city centres.
I have asked Metrolinx 3 or so times for some feedback on this and they have gone completely silent on the matter.
There seems to have been no movement on this since the boards went up on the windows and doors and the one thing that DT Brampton did not need was another similarity to abandoned rust belt city centres.
I have asked Metrolinx 3 or so times for some feedback on this and they have gone completely silent on the matter.
crs1026
Senior Member
Totally speculative answer: check the zoning.
It's a lot harder to get a demolition permit for something zoned as residential, as opposed to commercial. (In Toronto, anyways). Perhaps the rezoning hasn't gone through yet, and the property is still considered residential.
I don't know if COB makes demolition permit applications public, or if they can be browsed on line.
- Paul
Allandale25
Senior Member
There's a town hall coming up: https://www.metrolinxengage.com/en/...gage&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Nov7invite
TOareaFan
Superstar
That would be a decent guess if 3 residential buildings had not already been demolished.....but if there were zoning issues, why evict the tenants...what is wrong with a wee bit of rental income while it works through the process (it has been over 2 years since the properties were purchased).......and no matter what the situation is, nothing excuses a public body that has an extensive communications department from going totally silent and refusing to answer questions on something that is within their mandate.