W. K. Lis
Superstar
We need to put up a fake facade, to hide the real work that has to be done?
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We need to put up a fake facade, to hide the real work that has to be done?
Steve X
Senior Member
It's on the surface and should be 6-9 months ahead of all other stations without much digging. Keelesdale got a head start with excavation and it suppose to be the model station for the rest of the line. A couple years is enough time to finish them if well managed. Every station should be excavated soon if they were to complete on time.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Mt. Dennis is on a sandbar. The same sandbar continued down to Jane & Alliance, and was a sand & gravel pit for Smythe Ltd. (of Maple Leaf Gardens fame). Likely they used that sand to became part of the aggregate for the concrete they used.
From link.
drum118
Superstar
Feb 03
CP track almost reinstalled. Can't see to the north as what working taking place, but track on the new bridge.
There is a new structure going up north of the Kodak building and can't get a shot of it.
False framing for the piers for the elevated bridge was being cut apart as I driving by today. T beams missing over the creek, but in place with no deck to the pour bridge. The curbs are being form and place on the bridge. Curbs from the station to the bridge ready for forming.
Too much snow to get a number of shots. More up on site.
CP track almost reinstalled. Can't see to the north as what working taking place, but track on the new bridge.
There is a new structure going up north of the Kodak building and can't get a shot of it.
False framing for the piers for the elevated bridge was being cut apart as I driving by today. T beams missing over the creek, but in place with no deck to the pour bridge. The curbs are being form and place on the bridge. Curbs from the station to the bridge ready for forming.
Too much snow to get a number of shots. More up on site.
smallspy
Senior Member
While I am worried about the fact that the stations at Chaplin and Mount Pleasant have barely started being excavated, what really concerns me is that they've barely stared on the work to underpin and excavate under the existing subways at Yonge and the Allen. Those are the two most crucial parts of the project, and the ones that appear to be, to me at least, are the areas most likely to be delayed due to unforeseen issues cropping up during the work.
Dan
Allandale25
Senior Member
First surface guideway pour.
reteequa
Active Member
I think something to keep in mind is these pictures are probably not being released the day that they are taken. Just like the one above they say its from last week. Also, all the comparisons are from 2018 and who knows how late in 2018 they were taken. The underground stations could be a lot further along than we think.
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
I'm just curious but does anyone know what the pipes are for and why there no rebar used in the concret like the TTC does when they poor footings for streetcar tracks?
John Bisan
New Member
they are 4" electrical conduits for power and same for communication for that connect stops and stations to comm. and power rooms
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Meanwhile, in Brussels...
Appears that some stations were formally high-platform, but were converted to low-platform.
Appears that some stations were formally high-platform, but were converted to low-platform.
thettctransitfanatic
Senior Member
Brussels is ahead of us...
steveintoronto
Superstar
It's called "foresight". They were built that way for later conversion, if need be, to Metro. Same overhead power supply, and ability to interline. It's only some of the lines that were built this way. Brussels has one of the largest tram systems in the world.
This is exactly one of the examples I've used for Toronto to copy for the Relief Line and others, but alas...Torontonians think we have the answers when we're over a generation behind.
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
I wonder if the TTC would have done the same if the SRT had been converted to LRT and just cut out a section of the platform and put in strairs and ramps to get to the trains?
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Or convert Line 4 SHEPPARD to light rail?
micheal_can
Senior Member
Please no.
Seriously, Toronto is at least double that of Brussels in population.
All current subways should stay subways.
Crosstown should have been a subway.
DRL should be a subway.
SRT should have been expanded, or built as a subway.
With a finite of tax dollars available, it sshould go to projects that will move the most people as efficiently as possible.