Toronto Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

[Steve X]

Will likely be an insurance claim (I assume you're referring to the car v LRT shelter at what looked like Victoria Park/Eglinton)

We hope they have insurance

 

[youngblood]

Metrolinx makes changes to key roles in staffing shakeup as delayed LRT projects stumble | Globalnews.ca

On Tuesday, Metrolinx told employees that the agency's chief planner and the chief operating officer of rapid transit had both left the company.

globalnews.ca

 

[ThenWhat]

Assuming that Eglinton LRT will open some time in the future, how will bus network change? Is there a map somewhere for the "day after" (or month after)?

 

[DirectionNorth]

Assuming that Eglinton LRT will open some time in the future, how will bus network change? Is there a map somewhere for the "day after" (or month after)?

This information is readily Googleable, even more so if you know which website to look for. From Steve Munro

 

[christiesplits]

Hilarious to be asking for any timeline related to the Crosstown, but is the Mount Dennis UP Station expected to open at the same time as the LRT line?

 

[hawc]

From CP24....

Metrolinx has made significant changes to its senior leadership team as the provincial transit agency struggles to get two light rail projects on track, a new memo obtained by CTV News Toronto shows.

CEO Phil Verster announced the departures of Karla Avis-Birch and Steven Levene in the email and thanked them for their service to the Crown corporation. Avis-Birch worked as Metrolinx’s chief planning officer and Levene worked as the chief operating officer (rapid transit), according to their respective LinkedIn profiles.

Verster said the changes were made in an effort to “evolve and adapt” in the face of an expanded mandate, which includes the Eglinton Crosstown LRT and Finch West LRT, two major transit project in Toronto that have yet to come online after years of delays and lawsuits.


“To do this, we must ensure that the right combinations of people, competencies, processes, and structures are in place,” he wrote.

As a result of the changes, Metrolinx will overhaul its planning and development (P & D) and operations (rapid transit) departments. Verster said P & D will be integrated into a number of other divisions, while the operations team would be split into two groups: one of which will be a new “asset management and maintenance division” led by chief engineer, Fay Pittman. The second operations group will be led by Phil Taberner, the vice president of new rail infrastructure, in an “acting capacity,” whose focus will be “getting the Eglinton and Finch West LRTs into service.”

In a statement to CP24, a spokesperson for Metrolinx said a restructuring in the management ranks such as this is “not unusual.”

“Metrolinx’s mandate and the complexity of our work has increased significantly over the past several years. As a result, there is a need for the organization to evolve and adapt to deliver on North America’s largest transit expansion,” the statement read.


Mayor Olivia Chow was asked about the changes at an unrelated news conference on Wednesday, and seemed to indicate that she was pleased with the development.

“It’s not up to me to comment on the inner workings of Metrolinx and the structure as to who does what…but it’s a good indication there’s some shakeup. But really, it’s up to the Minister of Transportation and the CEO of Metrolinx,” she said.

In a post to social media, Coun. Josh Matlow said he believes the C-suite reorganization is in direct response to the delayed projects.

“Metrolinx’s delays have impacted local residents, shuttered small businesses, wasted tax dollars & left us all without the transit we need to tackle congestion & get to work or school on time,” he wrote in a tweet. “Clearly heads are rolling because their vehicles haven’t been.”

 

[smallspy]

Hilarious to be asking for any timeline related to the Crosstown, but is the Mount Dennis UP Station expected to open at the same time as the LRT line?

Yes.

Dan

 

[hawc]

Testing continues. Both the LRT and Toronto's patience.

 

[Dan416]

So what exactly is the hold up anyway? If they can test it, surely they can run it.

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

So what exactly is the hold up anyway? If they can test it, surely they can run it.

Completions of all the stations by crosslinks and the city of Toronto inspecting them to allow for them to be open to the public.

 

[Aplus23]

This is gonna be highly used from day 1, and this is the first new line in the system since Sheppard but Geez. Metrolinx really dropped the ball on this one

 

[Amare]

This is gonna be highly used from day 1, and this is the first new line in the system since Sheppard but Geez. Metrolinx really dropped the ball on this one

Metrolinx is dropping the ball on every rapid transit project, it's their MO at this point.

Crosstown wont open until 2025, Finch wont open until that lawsuit issue is settled, Hurontario who knows anymore, and the Scarborough subway extension is apparently having tunnel digging issues with the TBMs so it's already behind schedule.

 

[hawc]

So what exactly is the hold up anyway? If they can test it, surely they can run it.

Word on the street is that the foundation slab under the Yonge/Eglinton Station Box is cracked and can't be fixed without ripping everything out and starting over.

 

[Steve X]

Word on the street is that the foundation slab under the Yonge/Eglinton Station Box is cracked and can't be fixed without ripping everything out and starting over.

Opening date hopefully 2031?

 

[goodcitywhenfinished]

Word on the street is that the foundation slab under the Yonge/Eglinton Station Box is cracked and can't be fixed without ripping everything out and starting over.

Again, this is such a juicy rumour that I simply cannot believe the media in this city would not be doing their best to at least get dead drops on emails/documents confirming this to be the case.

Either

a) there is little to no truth to the rumours (I.e. the errors are much more trivial than described)

or

b) the media in this city is just as incompetent as metrolinx and doesn’t know how to leak the story of the year.