innsertnamehere
Superstar
That article makes it pretty clear that public opening will be late 2022 or early 2023.
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trtcttc
Active Member
Is there a good reason why there’s so many types? Whether they use the international standard or their own made up one, at least pick a lane and stick to it. Also in that Google Street View, why do they need a light there? it’s a right of way with no intersection and no crossover tracks and no visibility issues.Waterloo's ION only uses the white bar signals at mixed traffic intersections, on the off-street rights of way they still use red and green circles, and on the in-median rights of way they use red, green, and yellow bars. This crossover protection signal would have been bars in Waterloo, and placed as a double head in the center of the median rather than hung off to the right so close to the car traffic:
PEC
New Member
Does anyone want to guess when traffic around Bayview/Eglinton and Allen Rd/Eglinton will be back to normal? I'm hoping and wishing for sometime in the Spring, but that's nothing more than a wild guess.
Aplus23
Active Member
Allen road probably won't look good untill the station there is finished, and that station probably won't be finished untill near the end of the project, whenever that is.
Judging by science center and Kennedy, the roads don't finished untill 90% done, and even then Kennedy road is still not all the way open and repaved
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Bad news. It will never look like Bayview and Eglinton in the 1950's again...
Construction at the northeast corner of Eglinton and Bayview in 1952. The Power supermarket building is still standing--it's the Rexall pharmacy mentioned above in Sunnybrook Plaza. The Reitman's is long gone.
Looking east on Eglinton from just east of Bayview in 1951. That's Howard Talbot Park and Leaside High School on the right. Today, the land on the left is home to strip plaza anchored by a Rexall pharmacy.
See link.
smallspy
Senior Member
They've started to remove the wooden roadway decking and backfilling the structure at Bayview. There are going to have to be a number of traffic shifts in order to finish all of it, but it looks like the end is finally in sight - at least in terms of traffic headaches.
The final road alignment still needs to be backfilled at the Allen, but considering how quickly they have been doing that elsewhere it shouldn't be too much longer before they're ready to think about moving the road back to the south.
Dan
PL1
Active Member
That plaza on the NE corner is slated for redevelopment. It's been closed and fenced off for a couple of years. I'm sure the construction for that will cause traffic issues. I'm just glad they made the developers wait until the Crosstown is done!Bad news. It will never look like Bayview and Eglinton in the 1950's again...
Construction at the northeast corner of Eglinton and Bayview in 1952. The Power supermarket building is still standing--it's the Rexall pharmacy mentioned above in Sunnybrook Plaza. The Reitman's is long gone.
Looking east on Eglinton from just east of Bayview in 1951. That's Howard Talbot Park and Leaside High School on the right. Today, the land on the left is home to strip plaza anchored by a Rexall pharmacy.
See link.
And yes, they flipped the N-S traffic to the west side about two weeks ago. This has moved the pedestrian crossing tho the west side from the east. Hopefully just a few more months. The transfer from a wb bus to a NB bus is probably 200+ m right now
KevinT
Active Member
I don't know why they used so many different kinds, but if you zoom in to that streetview you'll see that it is on the approach to a trailing point crossover.
H4F33Z
Active Member
Some optimistic news for the surface section!
Amare
Senior Member
I love Becky Katz! I wish even half of the city bureaucracy worked the way she does!
Can she serve as the head of Toronto Transportation Services as well? Maybe then we'd start making dramatic differences with our entire road network.
Can she serve as the head of Toronto Transportation Services as well? Maybe then we'd start making dramatic differences with our entire road network.
cplchanb
Senior Member
Well... let's see how long they'll last against the snow plows...
drum118
Superstar
Aplus23
Active Member
We are officially into 2022, does Eglinton get finished this year
felix123
Active Member
My guess is finished and at least in-testing. Tough to make a call on whether it goes into passenger service this year though.
The REAL
New Member
Nah I don't think so. The reason the Confederation line doesn't work as well is that those Alstom trains (they'll also be used on the upcoming Finch west LRT) were not meant to be used on that line. But the order had already been in so they had no choice but to use those trains. Because of this, the trains aren't equipped to deal with the high volume of ppl boarding the trains on the daily. This is why the doors would malfunction with derailments. Eglinton are using the Bombardier trains (which I'm not a fan of) and our line should be more tolerable to those trains.