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Metrolinx: Other Items (catch all)
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SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
This is really cool:
Northern Light
Superstar
To the surprise of exactly no one.......
The Ford gov't has been caught directly meddling over at Metrolinx.
Of course Del Duca and the Liberals did much the same a few years earlier, seems pols, at least from teams Blue and Red can't resist.
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In so far as certain projects will, by definition, require political support I'm not opposed to all intervention, but I think there should be no pretense of independence in such cases.
Don't bother having Metrolinx do a Business Case study or feasibility test if you're going to, as a government pursue a project anyway.
Save the taxpayer the $$$, wear the decision and just do it.
If you're going to have the bureaucracy attempt to objectively evaluate, then take your hands off the scale in respect of the outcome.
The Ford gov't has been caught directly meddling over at Metrolinx.
Of course Del Duca and the Liberals did much the same a few years earlier, seems pols, at least from teams Blue and Red can't resist.
Secret letters detail Ford government efforts to control Ontario’s supposedly arm’s-length transit agency
Critics say a series of confidential ministerial directives to Metrolinx show the Progressive Conservatives increasingly treating the independent tran...
In so far as certain projects will, by definition, require political support I'm not opposed to all intervention, but I think there should be no pretense of independence in such cases.
Don't bother having Metrolinx do a Business Case study or feasibility test if you're going to, as a government pursue a project anyway.
Save the taxpayer the $$$, wear the decision and just do it.
If you're going to have the bureaucracy attempt to objectively evaluate, then take your hands off the scale in respect of the outcome.
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drum118
Superstar
What do you expect from a useless outfit when greed and the bottom line is more important than the public at whole?? Another Ford Nation that doesn't care about agreements.
Metrolinx reneges on plan to donate land for Jane-Finch community centre, will instead sell to highest bidder
Metrolinx reneges on plan to donate land for Jane-Finch community centre, will instead sell to highest bidder
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Let me guess. The City wasn't going to name the community centre as a memorial for Rob Ford?
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
The 2020/2021 Metrolinx Procurement plan has been released. An interesting read to see what tenders are going out over the next year.
Northern Light
Superstar
Lots of good stuff in there.
Don't want to copy/paste the entire thing.
But thought I'd share a cluster of construction tenders which may be revealing.
| Caledonia GO Station |
| Aldershot Stn South Parking Exp. & Stn. Imprv. including Esc. Replace - Construction Contract |
| Confederation Station Hamilton - Construction Contract Tender in Market - Main works |
| Eglinton Accessibility Upgrades - Construction Contract |
| Georgetown station and layover - Construction Contract Tender |
| Bradford Parking and Bus Loop Expansion - Construction Contract |
| Barrie Double Track - Contract 3 - PH 2- Construction Contract |
| Barrie Double Track - Contract 3 - PH 1- Construction Contract |
| Port Credit Parking Structure and TOD - Construction Contract |
| Port Credit Station Rehabilitation and Elevator Replacement - Construction Contract |
| RER Rouge Hill Stn Expansion - Construction Contract |
| RER1 Kitchener Track Work - Construction Contract Tender in Market - 4th Track Construction T0 (Lansdowne to Black Creek) |
| Bloor Station - RFP Issue / Construction |
| Birchmount Bridge Engineering Design |
| Birchmount Bridge Construction |
| Aurora Station - Construction Contract |
| New Station And Platform Rehab-Richmond Hill |
| Lincolnville Layover Expansion - Lincolnville New Station |
| Barrie Double Track - Contract |
| Oriole Station Relocation - O&E |
| RER1 Kitchener Stations |
| Burlington Service Increase Increment |
That last one intrigues me..............its not obvious to me what that's about.
kali
Active Member
What's "O&E" for Oriole relocation?
Northern Light
Superstar
Usually, in this context, Operations and Engineering.
Though the Operations part seems odd here.
kali
Active Member
When are they expected to start work on that? And have they decided to expand parking at Old Cummer to compensate for Oriole? Seems like it's been in the works for a while.
Coolstar
Senior Member
Former Metrolinx employees launch human rights complaint over failed background check - CityNews Toronto
Two former Metrolinx employees have launched a human rights complaint after they lost their jobs due to failing a Toronto police background check, even though neither of them have a criminal record. Thairu Taban and Josslyn Mounsey were hired as Transit Safety Dispatchers in the spring of 2019...
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JasonParis
Moderator
Never thought of this before, but why is Hamilton's Confederation station not named Stoney Creek? Is there to be a Stoney Creek one a bit further west?
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
I once asked this question, to which a Hamiltonian replied that Confederation GO isn’t actually in the former municipality of Stoney Creek. I still like the name Stoney Creek GO better though.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Yes. I think most people these days think of Stoney Creek being pretty much anything east of Confederation Parkway, but pre-2001 the Stoney Creek border zig-zagged through residential areas generally east of Confederation Parkway. The border along Barton is as far east as Grays Rd.
So Confederation GO is technically well within the former City of Hamilton.
So Confederation GO is technically well within the former City of Hamilton.
crs1026
Senior Member
^The original CNR Stoney Creek station was at Milepost 37.56, Lake Avenue.
Centennial Parkway is Mile 38.04. (measured from Suspension Bridge at the Niagara River) - one crossing to the west.
I looked in an old 1910 timetable in my collection, and there is no other station shown. There was a station name sign at "Gages" 2 miles west in 1910, but even then no depot or office and trains didn't stop there.
The heritage enthusiast in me would have loved Saltfleet, but for wayfinding reasons Centennial makes some sense given today's road network.
- Paul
Centennial Parkway is Mile 38.04. (measured from Suspension Bridge at the Niagara River) - one crossing to the west.
I looked in an old 1910 timetable in my collection, and there is no other station shown. There was a station name sign at "Gages" 2 miles west in 1910, but even then no depot or office and trains didn't stop there.
The heritage enthusiast in me would have loved Saltfleet, but for wayfinding reasons Centennial makes some sense given today's road network.
- Paul