urbancog
Active Member
This job posting would suggest Metrolinx will continue intensive construction in the USRC beyond the current south-side rebuild.
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GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)
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PL1
Senior Member
I know the text is all corporate bafflegab, but it really would be nice if "excellent customer experience" was emphasized.
EnviroTO
Senior Member
Not sure if capital projects director for USRC really controls the customer experience beyond a corridor with the capacity and design to move trains in and out quickly. Doesn't seem like the position to control service levels, hire CSRs, define coach comfort, etc, Yelp review... Great use of cement and steel rails, five stars.
PL1
Senior Member
I just referred to the last sentence: "The objective is to build a network... " while blah blah, while oh yeah, were also doing it for the plebes that take our service.
*Everything* should ultimately be in the service of the customers. Of course using cement and rails is the what, but the goal should be to improve the service, which helps customers. Maybe I'm just being sensitive to the order of the words and it really makes no difference
Allandale25
Senior Member
The editor missed "GO" instead of "Go".
dowlingm
Senior Member
Milton still doesn’t have all-day, two-way GO train service. What’s the hold up?
“A complex challenge,” says Metrolinx.
www.insidehalton.com
sixrings
Senior Member
What’s the hold up? Money.Milton still doesn’t have all-day, two-way GO train service. What’s the hold up?
“A complex challenge,” says Metrolinx.
To be clear there is money. It’s the will to spend it here which is the BIG hold up.
drum118
Superstar
Oct 4
More up on my site
Haven't started any real work on the westside until OL3 is more advance.
It will not take long for the barrier are tag like the ones on the southside at Pape
Been about 7 years since I saw this area at Danforth
More up on my site
Haven't started any real work on the westside until OL3 is more advance.
It will not take long for the barrier are tag like the ones on the southside at Pape
Been about 7 years since I saw this area at Danforth
catcher_of_cats
Active Member
I wonder if passengers at Danforth Station feel the oppressive 'weight' of the new Condo complex beside them. That is one massive street wall.
crs1026
Superstar
Welcome to Toronto, where we build tiny homes in dystopian towers with zeal, while fighting fiercely to prevent any careful, reasoned, low-rise, moderate-density transformation of our quieter streets.
At least it is on the north side, so doesn't shadow the entire station platform.
- Paul
drum118
Superstar
I just noticed the towers are not 100 feet from the ROW like other towers as well no 20' crash wall for the east section. Mimico Station ,was to see something like this
crs1026
Superstar
Good catch. It looks like they are not finished pouring the crash wall, so it may end up extending further east all the way to the end. I also wonder if there is an exemption or variance approved based on this line likely seeing only the odd freight movement, and perhaps even those being speed restricted..
in any event, the lower floors appear to be parking not residential….. but to this non-engineer, severing the verticals might be disastrous.
- Paul
ProjectEnd
Superstar
25m from centre line of the nearest track is the FRA rule-of-thumb. See below re: crash wall. Mimico will absolutely have this as well, there's no getting out of it.
They are pouring it in that second image. You can see the formwork (the yellow and silver lattice looking thing) at the end of the already-poured wall, and the rebar sticking up at the base continuing all the way to the eastern edge of the project.
drum118
Superstar
The condos on the Northside of CPKC corridor at Islington Station have their crashwall next to the ROW with the condo building been 100 feet from the ROW/. The condos at Burlington Station is next to Metrolinx ROW. If you look south off Dundas St W overpass, you will see the crashwall next to Metrolinx ROW. Metrolinx wants the residents building to be 100' from their ROW.
All the buildings on the southside of Union Station Corridor have the crashwall next to it that are about 2 feet thick.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
The Canadian standard is 30 metres from edge of the property line shared with the rail corridor, with caveats:
1. Can be reduced by a crash wall (typically by 5m)
2. Can be measured horizontally and vertically
3. "low occupancy space" can be constructed within these areas - i.e. parking, storage areas, etc.
This is the full guideline for details. There are further nuances to it than that, but that's the general idea.
In the case of 6 Dawes, they built a crash wall, which reduced it to 25 metres, then filled that 25 metre area basically entirely with low-occupancy space (i.e. parking) until they got 25 metres up vertically, where the units start.