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

[ehlow]

Not a huge amount of new info, but the construction update presentation is here:
West: http://thecrosstown.ca/news-media/whats-new/open-house-presentation-west
East: http://thecrosstown.ca/news-media/whats-new/open-house-presentation-east

On page 36 of the "east" presentation, there's a nice new rendering of an underground Eglinton station, for those who are interested.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Sigh. an Emergency Exit Building is being built at Petman Avenue, at a prime location for a midrise development.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

The Brentcliffe Portal looks nice

 

[DarnDirtyApe]

Sigh. an Emergency Exit Building is being built at Petman Avenue, at a prime location for a midrise development.

That'll just be a staircase out from the tunnel; it's not like trains will stop here.

 

[howl]

Sigh. an Emergency Exit Building is being built at Petman Avenue, at a prime location for a midrise development.

The emergency access building will just be a small building at the back of the property with the access tunnel running along the edge of the property next to the street. It won't preclude redeveloping the site. The only thing it will do is restrict some of the potential for underground parking.

 

[CityPlaceN1]

That sounds okay.

 

[ehlow]

It seems like they're closing an even larger section of the street on Eglinton just east of Yonge today for the extraction shaft.

I drove by the eastern launch shaft a few days ago and it didn't seem like they had dug down much yet.

 

[CityPlaceN1]

TBM getting closer to Allen.

 

[Duck]

I've heard for some time that Waterloo will be where they are tested. Specifically, along the Spur Line segment, next to and north of the University. That's where we're expecting to get our first track.

However, I don't believe we're expecting to get rails in the ground until 2015.

I hope you're right - that's so exciting to think that a train (or trains) could potentially be testing along a short section of track in The Region in just a year! I wonder how they'd manage the temporary power-up of just one section of line and so on.

 

[ehlow]

Photos of eastern launch shaft on twitter:
https://twitter.com/CrosstownTO/status/514081830937837568
https://twitter.com/CrosstownTO/status/514082052179001344

 

[Juan_Lennon416]

TBM getting closer to Allen.

I wonder when they anticipate both TBMs reaching the Allen?

 

[ehlow]

I wonder when they anticipate both TBMs reaching the Allen?

I think they said end of year at the Metrolinx board meeting.

 

[ehlow]

TBMs Humber and Don have arrived at the Brentcliffe launch site!

https://twitter.com/CrosstownTO/status/514091808281079808

 

[Platform 27]

I think they said end of year at the Metrolinx board meeting.

I went and checked and the exact term was "Decemberish"

 

[Uncle Teddy]

Are they slowing down to get Allen Station work done in advance of the TBM? They first TBM seems stuck just west of Oakwood.