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

[Midtown Urbanist]

Half way between Laid and Bayview now. It is at Rumsey Road!

 

[someMidTowner]

Approximate remaining distance:

 

[robmausser]

Approximate remaining distance:

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Things are gonna get real interesting when those TBM's reach Yonge street.

And by interesting I mean nuts.

 

[UD2]

Things are gonna get real interesting when those TBM's reach Yonge street.

And by interesting I mean nuts.

I thought the staging area is off to the side in the location of the old TTC bus bays? This should be fairly secluded from the traffic, or am I totally off base?

Do we know what the construction method will be for the underground sections at Don Mills and Kennedy?

 

[ehlow]

Photos of the construction
http://www.postcity.com/Eat-Shop-Do...onstruction-is-changing-midtown-in-18-photos/

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Photos of the construction
http://www.postcity.com/Eat-Shop-Do...onstruction-is-changing-midtown-in-18-photos/

Half the store closures pictured in this article have been due to other reasons. (Condo development at Laird/Eglinton, and the Sunnybrook Plaza is always coming and going with new stores, stores typically do not perform well there with the high rents and commercial traffic.)

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

Maybe the wrong thread for this, but I'd say Tory has accomplished a few things of note. I might not agree with it, but a definitive vote was taken on East Gardiner.

I don't get why this is a good idea. All I see is this will make Lake shore worse then it already is. It's not designed for the level of traffic that will use it if we get rid of the gardner or shorten it or whatever plan council comes up with next

The Scarborough RT replacement / subway extension / LRT plan has definitely come from his time in office.

All he's done is cobbled together the plans of Tory (the LRT) and Ford (The subway) all because he doesn't want the subway to get in the way of his precious cocktail napkin drawing of "smart track" more like Dumb track if you asks me.

 

[Edward Skira]

I thought the staging area is off to the side in the location of the old TTC bus bays? This should be fairly secluded from the traffic, or am I totally off base?

Do we know what the construction method will be for the underground sections at Don Mills and Kennedy?

The western TBM's can be removed at the old bus bays. The eastern ones will have to be removed on the east side of Yonge. That will be the nuts part. As will the construction of the station.

 

[robmausser]

The western TBM's can be removed at the old bus bays. The eastern ones will have to be removed on the east side of Yonge. That will be the nuts part. As will the construction of the station.

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They are also moving the platforms for the Yonge Line at Eglinton.

http://stevemunro.ca/2013/11/17/crosstown-lrt-interchanges-with-the-yonge-university-spadina-subway/

Will also be nutso.

 

[dowlingm]

I thought one set of TBMs (the east ones?) were being left in the ground?

 

[Voltz]

I thought one set of TBMs (the east ones?) were being left in the ground?

I think they said they would be getting left in the ground and removed as the station gets built.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

They are also moving the platforms for the Yonge Line at Eglinton.

http://stevemunro.ca/2013/11/17/crosstown-lrt-interchanges-with-the-yonge-university-spadina-subway/

Will also be nutso.

I assume this means no more Vitrolite in Toronto

 

[W. K. Lis]

For those who don't know where Forest Hill was or is, here's a map of the old village:

So naming the Bathurst station on the Crosstown LRT after Forest Hill seems appropriate. Even if they had to annex the southwest corner at Bathurst & Eglinton away from the Township of York.

 

[kotsy]

Any idea when they will start the platform renovations on the Yonge line @ Eglinton?

 

[Amare]

I assume this means no more Vitrolite in Toronto

It's going to be a very sad day when they start striping the vitrolite panels out. Theoretically, i'd say they should try and preserve and reinstall them, but we all know that there's at most a 5% chance they would actually go through with that. Not to mention the panels possibly might not be strong enough to survive that kind of process.