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Kitchener Four Track update:
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GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)
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nfitz
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Garuda
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The east end of guelph central station has new signal infrastructure.
PL1
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I don't think anyone has posted photos of the expanded bridge over Woodbine on the Lakeshore East and Stouffville lines (IIRC). From this afternoon. It looks like they still need to attach railings on the north side of the new bridge.
SaugeenJunction
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Contract awarded for design services for new Brampton GO South Platform on MERX. This would be to accommodate the new 3rd track through downtown Brampton.
From the tender:
From the tender:
Northern Light
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nfitz
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No recent photos, but there was some posted by @enter username back in May - https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...-metrolinx-various.9023/page-798#post-1951389
Progess has been very efficient, with very little impact to Woodbine. I commented back in May thatt hey must have built the original bridge with the thought of being able to add a 4th track eventually - there's very little work required on the abutments; it's mostly the new centre pillar (and span) that's been added.
crs1026
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I made a trip to Milliken today, thanks to having midday service again. The progress on the Lakeshore line is impressive - still lots to do but clearly it is coming together with work all along the Scarborough-Union section. Nothing that looked like a forgotten piece, or a showstopper at this point.
Similarly from a recent trip - there has been a lot of progress this summer along the Barrie line, towards double track all the way from Steeles down. The bridge at Bloor appears to be the only major civil structure left to complete, along with the south ramp of the flyover - but that is clearly in progress already.
I wish I could say the same for the Stouffville Line. It appears there is construction under the 401 tunnel - replacing or augmenting the central section of that highway briedge. Perhaps that's the project that forced the cessation of mid-day service.
There were three workers - apparently surveying - at the West Highland Creek. No sign of heavy equipment or work to advance the piers on that bridge. Without that missing link, everything else is pretty much complete, but unusable. The second platform at Kennedy will be a white elephant until they tackle double tracking from Kennedy to Scarborough Jct and that hasn't even started.
- Paul
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Work starting at Aurora GO Station to add a new platform and a second track:
From the above:
Metrolinx upgrades Aurora GO Station for GO Expansion work
Improvements at Aurora GO will help enable future all-day, two-way 15-min service between Aurora & Union.
www.metrolinx.com
From the above:
Kitsune
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Halfway height ... as the overpass looks to low for bike clearance at sidewalk level. Don't need cyclists faceplanting into the side of it
Northern Light
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Halfway height ... as the overpass looks to low for bike clearance at sidewalk level. Don't need cyclists faceplanting into the side of it
Ummm....
Clearance over a seemingly normal height person leaves a lot of room. That would be one seriously honking bike if you managed to faceplant into the rail deck, that and you'd have to be 9ft tall still.
Metroscapes
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Have we seen preliminary designs? I'm still surprised they're going to the south side, mostly to do with CN's appetite for tracks closer to the offices there.
crs1026
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It's appropriate to keep the GO traffic on the south side all the way from Peel to Norval. I'm glad that ML is acquiring the south side land now, it might be more difficult if that didn't happen until when (and not if) the fourth track is needed..
The heritage depot will have to shift, eventually. Three tracks is not an end state, just enough for another decade I bet.
- Paul
nfitz
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I use it all the time. It's a complete non-issue - unless your head also hits all the streetcar wires!Halfway height ... as the overpass looks to low for bike clearance at sidewalk level. Don't need cyclists faceplanting into the side of it
Is this you?
Allandale25
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No new platform/existing platform modification designs public as of yet. Apparently, CN itself will design the third track so that's not part of this contract.
What do you mean by "CN's appetite for tracks closer to the offices there."?