ARG1
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Are you sure that's not an internal email? My email was blocked...
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GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)
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Allandale25
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^ Sorry I made a typo. I accidentally added a period. It is YorkRegion@metrolinx.com
(Example of where the email is found: https://www.metrolinxengage.com/en/content/virtual-open-house-lindenshire-avenue-pedestrian-access)
(Example of where the email is found: https://www.metrolinxengage.com/en/content/virtual-open-house-lindenshire-avenue-pedestrian-access)
Garuda
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If I ever open up a gay bar I'm going to call it: "The Manhole"From the article:
Last week trees were cleared alongside the tracks’ right-of-way between Wildwood Crescent and Woodbine Avenue for a fiber optic cable and a new manhole.
How is this word not personhole? Really! The misogyny is infuriating!
The theme will be construction.
MrGoose
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To get in you have to wear high-viz speedos
Coolstar
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robmausser
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As much as I was in favour of the simple refurbishment of the SRT over the Scarborough Subway extension, theres gonna be so much room for
ShonTron
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Cutting down trees today in Metrolinx's Downtown Brampton block, where it bought up and demolished over a dozen houses. It will be the site of a 200+ spot parking lot. The two office buildings at George and Nelson are still vacant, but still standing with no recent indications of next steps.
Undead
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^What a waste. Why couldn't they build high density housing on top of the station and rent it out like Singapore? If parking is so needed, it could have been included in the condo podiums. Smh
Coolstar
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It's like we're going completely backwards.
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Metrolinx bought up the block a few years ago, before the last Liberal government unveiled plans for Ryerson/Sheridan post-secondary campus on the main GO lot lands. (GO has two other lots, a mid-sized lot on an old industrial land next to the 45 Railroad development, and a very small lot at the bottom behind a plaza, accessed from Main Street south of Church).
I'm disappointed to see Metrolinx go through with this, without new public plans for the main lot lands.
I'm disappointed to see Metrolinx go through with this, without new public plans for the main lot lands.
Amare
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This is so idiotic. Let's jam through development in Toronto and build 50+ stories around GO stations in areas that cant handle it, but because it's transit-oriented development lets force it through.
Meanwhile in Brampton, Oakville, Burlington, Mississauga, etc.. we continue to see this kind of non-sense take place regularly.
No wonder we have housing shortages in the GTA. I wonder where all the MZO's are in those cities...
Meanwhile in Brampton, Oakville, Burlington, Mississauga, etc.. we continue to see this kind of non-sense take place regularly.
No wonder we have housing shortages in the GTA. I wonder where all the MZO's are in those cities...
tsm1072
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Is it going to be a surface lot or a multi-story lot?
I think this site probably needs to be developed, but there is some long-term planning here. Metrolinx needs to hold on to land near stations for future use, in this case, they may eventually need a new Bus terminal or LRT portal. GO is also still primarily a drive-up commuter service, and will be until they can improve frequency and fare integration. If they keep this as a surface lot, they will be able to develop in the future once they are confident they won't need the land, and transit access is sufficient to not need the parking.
Currently, they may not have a set plan for the land, so a surface lot is a good intermediate use while a plan is developed. If they sell it for housing development and then need it in 10 years, the cost of whatever project needed the land will end up being much higher.
I think this site probably needs to be developed, but there is some long-term planning here. Metrolinx needs to hold on to land near stations for future use, in this case, they may eventually need a new Bus terminal or LRT portal. GO is also still primarily a drive-up commuter service, and will be until they can improve frequency and fare integration. If they keep this as a surface lot, they will be able to develop in the future once they are confident they won't need the land, and transit access is sufficient to not need the parking.
Currently, they may not have a set plan for the land, so a surface lot is a good intermediate use while a plan is developed. If they sell it for housing development and then need it in 10 years, the cost of whatever project needed the land will end up being much higher.
EnviroTO
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Seems like the eventual plan is to add a third track mostly to the south side of the corridor at the point in the corridor where the historic railway station is located. That means moving the south platform back and moving the roadway potentially. Also, when there were plans for a Ryerson campus here there was talk of expending the bus terminal to this property.
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Allandale25
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crs1026
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Interesting interview with Phil Verster
The very interesting bits are
9:20 - Verster indicates that changes to the design at East Harbour will mean a flyunder at Scarboro Jct isn't needed. Intuitively that implies that Stouffville trains will end up on the north tracks from Don up to Scarboro Jct. I wonder what options that creates/eliminates for VIA HFR, and how express LSE will integrate with stopping trains on that route.
12:05 - Verster's view of what RER ridership may evolve to post COVID
14:30 - Comments about the Missing Link bypass not being needed "by being more commercially astute"
Kudo's to Reece for upping his journalistic game - this is a more substantive interview than many, even those produced by the mainstream Toronto paper and broadcast media.
Verster is himself, and I stick my tongue in my cheek about some of his statements (such as taking credit for moving away from the procurement model of three years ago.....the one that he and his gang pursued in the first place....sigh) but it's a more informative discussion than many we've seen.
- Paul
The very interesting bits are
9:20 - Verster indicates that changes to the design at East Harbour will mean a flyunder at Scarboro Jct isn't needed. Intuitively that implies that Stouffville trains will end up on the north tracks from Don up to Scarboro Jct. I wonder what options that creates/eliminates for VIA HFR, and how express LSE will integrate with stopping trains on that route.
12:05 - Verster's view of what RER ridership may evolve to post COVID
14:30 - Comments about the Missing Link bypass not being needed "by being more commercially astute"
Kudo's to Reece for upping his journalistic game - this is a more substantive interview than many, even those produced by the mainstream Toronto paper and broadcast media.
Verster is himself, and I stick my tongue in my cheek about some of his statements (such as taking credit for moving away from the procurement model of three years ago.....the one that he and his gang pursued in the first place....sigh) but it's a more informative discussion than many we've seen.
- Paul
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