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GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

I've checked the satellite imagery on ESRI Basemaps, Google Maps, & Bing Maps (they may however all be from the same source) and all show 5 tracks through the area in these^ photos but only 4 continuous lines. One track stops just North of Queen St and another starts on the opposite side of the corridor.

Hopefully this project will add 2 more lines on the North side of the corridor and realign the existing tracks into 5 continuous tracks giving 7 continuous tracks: Milton 2-way, Kitchener up-slow, Kitchener down-slow, Kitchener up-fast, Kitchener down-fast, Barrie up, Barrie down.
 
^ The point of all that work appears to be the shifting of utilities and telecom to prepare the added width of the corridor for grading, tracklaying, and platform construction at Liberty. It looks like that work is wrapping up. Note the signalling conduit that is being protected by all those concrete blocks.

Those bits of disconnected trackage has been there since 2013-2014 when the trackage was shifted around during GTS construction. I don't know if there is any serious intent to utilise any of it.... perhaps what is there will be torn up and reclaimed.

Last I heard, the Liberty construction will require sacrificing one track, leaving seven in the corridor: two Barrie, four Kitchener, and one Milton. But who knows if the design has changed further.

- Paul
 
crs1026 said:
^ The point of all that work appears to be the shifting of utilities and telecom to prepare the added width of the corridor for grading, tracklaying, and platform construction at Liberty. It looks like that work is wrapping up. Note the signalling conduit that is being protected by all those concrete blocks.

Those bits of disconnected trackage has been there since 2013-2014 when the trackage was shifted around during GTS construction. I don't know if there is any serious intent to utilise any of it.... perhaps what is there will be torn up and reclaimed.

Last I heard, the Liberty construction will require sacrificing one track, leaving seven in the corridor: two Barrie, four Kitchener, and one Milton. But who knows if the design has changed further.

- Paul
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One track for Milton is pretty garbage. If they want to permanently knee-cap Milton from ever getting all-day two-way service, that'll do it.
 
From this post, the work going on now is just to restore a noise wall and "drainage to create space for a second track". As there are 4 tracks here now (shared between Milton, Kitchener, and Barrie services) I'm not sure what "a second track" means in this context.
 
Northern Light said:
Yes it is.

But it will be awhile yet.......but not 76 years.
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Your post gives supreme confidence to Milton riders.

For the record first it was don’t worry. Once all these projects are done Milton will be next. Now it’s we’ve scrapped everything or delayed everything. So do we need to wait for everything to still complete. I mean we’re like 15 years behind schedule. So that’s great. My kindergarten kid will be finished university before it’s done. Job well done.
 
sixrings said:
Your post gives supreme confidence to Milton riders.

For the record first it was don’t worry. Once all these projects are done Milton will be next. Now it’s we’ve scrapped everything or delayed everything. So do we need to wait for everything to still complete. I mean we’re like 15 years behind schedule. So that’s great. My kindergarten kid will be finished university before it’s done. Job well done.
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I am not the province, I am not Metrolinx, the order of the projects in their capital plan, and their aspirational projects are something with which I have a passing familiarity, but their delivery and execution are nothing I have any say in whatsoever.
 
Northern Light said:
I am not the province, I am not Metrolinx, the order of the projects in their capital plan, and their aspirational projects are something with which I have a passing familiarity, but their delivery and execution are nothing I have any say in whatsoever.
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I believe that. But you have repeatedly said it’s being worked on or it’s coming. That’s extremely vague though which is why it’s so frustrating. If we’re talking ten years or more away I don’t think it’s fair to say be patient.
 
Dan416 said:
One track for Milton is pretty garbage. If they want to permanently knee-cap Milton from ever getting all-day two-way service, that'll do it.
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The one track would be for the station area and would be two on either side of it. It doesn't stop the Milton Line using another track depending on the dispatcher and quality of service for the that line..
 
urbancog said:
I've checked the satellite imagery on ESRI Basemaps, Google Maps, & Bing Maps (they may however all be from the same source) and all show 5 tracks through the area in these^ photos but only 4 continuous lines. One track stops just North of Queen St and another starts on the opposite side of the corridor.

Hopefully this project will add 2 more lines on the North side of the corridor and realign the existing tracks into 5 continuous tracks giving 7 continuous tracks: Milton 2-way, Kitchener up-slow, Kitchener down-slow, Kitchener up-fast, Kitchener down-fast, Barrie up, Barrie down.
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Pro tip: the City Of Toronto and other tech minded municipal governments or CA’s tend to update their air photos at least once a year so you can usually get the most up to date air photos on the GIS page.
 
urbancog said:
Here's an OnXpress post about prefabricating track panels at the newly commissioned Mimico Logistics Hub. This should make On-Corridor construction more efficient.

As noted above, they're also building a logistics hub at the intersection of the KI line and Islington Ave.
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seems counter-intuitive that they are using wood for the ties when all of their recent trackwork used concrete ties.
 
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