kotsy
Senior Member
Big thanks to you both!
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GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)
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Northern Light
Superstar
Let me echo the comments above in saying 'That sucks'; and I hope you heal up fully and quickly.
May I add, if you feel that where this happened was a road design issue at all (no cycle track, track on wrong side of cars, etc), feel free to share the location, publicly or privately, and with absolutely no promises on outcome, I will ensure the right City staff are made aware of it, and hopefully take a look at making a repeat incident less likely.
Alternatively, I can also provide you the requisite contact information.
kotsy
Senior Member
Thanks, NL! It was at Front and Blue Jays Way just before the intersection heading eastbound.
futurebound
New Member
They dropped the ball on the UP Express screen. They didn't even include a minute countdown to the next train - hell, YRT gets this right! Imagine if you got to a VIVA stop and the dot matrix display was showing "viva blue - Newmarket Term - 11:34", "viva blue - Newmarket Term - 11:42", "viva blue - Newmarket Term - 11:59"
The screen is cluttered and the least important feature - the ad - attracts the most attention.
Incredible work from Metrolinx. Do they want to make people dislike transit?
WB62
Senior Member
I feel like they didn’t necessarily drop the ball, they just never picked up the ball that's been on the floor since 2015; the UP screens have always looked awful, the one Metrolinx showed is just a dark mode redesign:
generalcanada
Senior Member
Spicy opinion here I think, The UP express is heavily used by travellers, advertising like "discover Toronto" should be displayed prominently on them
crs1026
Superstar
I don't disagree that such adverts have their place.... but not on wayfinding. Reduce the clutter and make the key information more prominent.
Travellers from out of town need the simplest, clearest delivery of key information. It helps the "routine" travellers, also.
- Paul
canarob
Senior Member
Does anyone know what work was done on the Stouffville line during last weekend's closure? The track around the infamous Highland Creek seems to have moved a bit east and, if I'm not imagining things, some work may have progressed on getting ready for the new "culvert."
kotsy
Senior Member
Forgot to include this shot of the tunnel extension at Exhibition GO.
drum118
Superstar
Feb 28
Stop by Kennedy Station today and the elevator to/from TTC is still not done. Come on!!
All the flashing is done for both platforms with a small still to be done. Looks like work is still taking place in the tunnel to both platform or being a storage area for the platform. The same can be said about the new waiting room for GO in the new Crosstown entrance.
Stop by Kennedy Station today and the elevator to/from TTC is still not done. Come on!!
All the flashing is done for both platforms with a small still to be done. Looks like work is still taking place in the tunnel to both platform or being a storage area for the platform. The same can be said about the new waiting room for GO in the new Crosstown entrance.
vistaway
Active Member
Current progress of the Hamilton West Harbour eastern exit track project. Taken yesterday, facing east (station is behind me).
Northern Light
Superstar
^^^ I feel like CN, and Mx should be introduced to the development team at Centrecourt.
Time is money.
Time is money.
crs1026
Superstar
I don't disagree with the sentiment - but I bet Centrecourt has a very different relationship with its subs. Trades showing up too soon for their assigned task is money also. Centrecourt has an opportunity cost when a building opening is delayed.... the opportunity cost of a transit line being unfinished gets swept under the rug. (Interesting that the City of Toronto did recently obtain a damages payment from ML over the costs incurred through schedule slippage of road reconstruction resulting from Crosstown delays.... if ML had to pay damages to everyone impacted by delays in GO expansion.......)
I do wonder how many people CN has tied up in public-driven project planning and execution. This may seem like a plodding effort (it is) but CN is not the one needing utilities moved, civil trades coordinated, signals redesigned, installed, tested and cut in, etc. If you look at the workload imposed by GO expansion, grade separations, etc....I bet a significant number of CN staffers do spend a lot of time working on things that don't impact their own business.....that must drive their overheads up.
Mostly, I wonder why it took ML so long to sign the purchase requisition for this particular task. The time lost before shovels hit the ground is money also.
- Paul
Northern Light
Superstar
Happy enough to agree w/the above.........but as I'm not privy to how long the design/planning lead-up was, I was more focused on the actual construction. Centrecourt is well known for their standard building program of 12 hours a day x 6 day per week.
crs1026
Superstar
I am sure that CN blocks out these tasks on a fairly relaxed basis, the point being they are not going to commit to anything that might collide with their own work programs or unforeseen tasks. So the time buffers in staging and the contingency built in is likely very generous.
It would be hugely inefficient for CN to have dedicated GO expansion crews sitting around waiting for ML to get their stuff together. One hears about cancellations in ML work programs because some moving part isn't ready or someone didn't know what their assignment was. Centrecourt probably fires people (and subs) for such "oops"es.
My comment about the purchase req actually originated with a guy in a CN truck at the work site that we chatted with some time ago - who commented that CN had been expecting and was ready for this task a long time ago, but ML never came through with a signature.
- Paul
It would be hugely inefficient for CN to have dedicated GO expansion crews sitting around waiting for ML to get their stuff together. One hears about cancellations in ML work programs because some moving part isn't ready or someone didn't know what their assignment was. Centrecourt probably fires people (and subs) for such "oops"es.
My comment about the purchase req actually originated with a guy in a CN truck at the work site that we chatted with some time ago - who commented that CN had been expecting and was ready for this task a long time ago, but ML never came through with a signature.
- Paul