innsertnamehere
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Always love your aerial updates Kotsy!
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GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)
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Northern Light
Superstar
A nod to Nolan Xuereb who has another good piece on transit in Toronto asking whatever happened to the Oriole GO relocation.
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Oriole Station Relocation: GO or No GO? | UrbanToronto
Served by the Richmond Hill GO line, Oriole GO has provided nearby North York neighbourhoods with direct rail service to downtown since it opened in 1978. In 2002, however, Leslie station on Sheppard Line 4 opened, and plans to relocate Oriole GO station about 500 metres north to better connect...
cplchanb
Senior Member
Another metrolinx bait and switch exercise.A nod to Nolan Xuereb who has another good piece on transit in Toronto asking whatever happened to the Oriole GO relocation.
Oriole Station Relocation: GO or No GO? | UrbanToronto
Served by the Richmond Hill GO line, Oriole GO has provided nearby North York neighbourhoods with direct rail service to downtown since it opened in 1978. In 2002, however, Leslie station on Sheppard Line 4 opened, and plans to relocate Oriole GO station about 500 metres north to better connect...
They fooled us with the push for electrification that so far is leading to nowhere and their grandiose plans at expansion is also very very delayed
Allandale25
Senior Member
This line/station wasn't part of the original electrification plans though.
cplchanb
Senior Member
electrification is another b and S.
Metroscapes
Active Member
I second my compliment of Nolan's article quality.A nod to Nolan Xuereb who has another good piece on transit in Toronto asking whatever happened to the Oriole GO relocation.
Oriole Station Relocation: GO or No GO? | UrbanToronto
Served by the Richmond Hill GO line, Oriole GO has provided nearby North York neighbourhoods with direct rail service to downtown since it opened in 1978. In 2002, however, Leslie station on Sheppard Line 4 opened, and plans to relocate Oriole GO station about 500 metres north to better connect...
As for whether this gets done, given the price tag we've seen on other projects, on a line that's on the back-burner, this seems dead in the water for now.
PLus, between flooding in the Lower Don Valley, Alto and the whole "GO 2.0" concept, I think the whole line needs a rethink.
SkylineHorizons
Active Member
CN has always been pretty laissez-faire about that stretch. Nothing’s really been done down there in decades (if ever) to close things up and I doubt they’re going to start now since their trains are usually crawling through there anyway going in and out of the yards. From their perspective the risk of a collision or trespasser incident is generally much lower than for GO.
If anything’s going to change, it’ll probably have to come from MX stepping up, paying for the improvements and then maintaining them going forward. Maybe that didn’t make much sense before when there weren’t that many train movements, but these days it really should be on the agenda sooner rather than later.
But even if they do restrict access, it’ll take a long time to break the habits of the people living down there who treat the ROW like their backyard. The stuff you run into down there is unreal sometimes. I’ve had people throw grocery carts onto the track right in front of me, which ended up braking a hosebag and causing the train to go into emergency, that was NOT a fun repair job. And then there was another time I came through there on the way to Niagara only to come across dumb and dumber - a pair of guys who had literally set up what I can only call a bike repair shop right in the middle of the track. Bikes flipped upside down, half taken apart, tools and parts strewn about everywhere. The bastards saw us coming from a mile away and didn't even flinch(we were going slow). Even when we were literally right on top of them stopped mere feet away they still refused to move because we had come down the "wrong track" the RTC had put us on the north (non-main) track past Hamilton and GO trains "aren’t supposed to be there."
Took several minutes of blasting them with the Stage 2 horn before they angrily dragged their junk off the damn right-of way.So even with fences and the anti-trespasser mats I'm sure they'll still be coming through for some time what with all the grade crossings that are down there, but it's a start.
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
Grimsby GO PIC slides here. Since UT seems to have threads for each new station, I started one for Grimsby GO here.
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Yeltsa Kcir
New Member
What happened to those biweekly reports Metrolinx was doing for this corridor? Can't seem to find them on the website.
Lakeshore East Line GO Expansion - Community Documents
Community Documents for Lakeshore East Line GO Expansion
www.metrolinx.com
kotsy
Senior Member
What happened to those biweekly reports Metrolinx was doing for this corridor? Can't seem to find them on the website.
Lakeshore East Line GO Expansion - Community Documents
Community Documents for Lakeshore East Line GO Expansionwww.metrolinx.com
Try here or here.
Here's the latest one from March 7th. A new one should be out today.
rdaner
Senior Member
Taken 13 March. Nothing new but the store is empty again and needs to go before further excavation. Also it’s worth coming here just to get a sense of the development coming which is considerable and only getting started!
ctf5650
New Member
Hmm I wonder what a "platfrom" is. New Metrolinx terminology?
WB62
Senior Member
Customer platform*
Glad metrolinx is blessing Grimsby station with such novel and bold ideas like this, truly a star in the industry
Fervid Corona
New Member
Some progress updates on the Kitchener line:
Some pictures taken during commute in the morning, some in the evening on the way home. All photos taken on Wednesday the 11th.
Woodbine GO: Lots of track equipment, looking closer to getting ready to cutover
Some pictures taken during commute in the morning, some in the evening on the way home. All photos taken on Wednesday the 11th.
Woodbine GO: Lots of track equipment, looking closer to getting ready to cutover
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