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Updated: Final asphalt Paving on Eglinton Avenue West between Park Hill Road and Glenarden Road and on Allen Roads North and South As early as Tuesday, May 2, 2023​

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What Work is Taking Place?​
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As early as Tuesday, May 2, 2023, crews at Cedarvale Station will be performing final asphalt paving on Eglinton Avenue West between Park Hill Road and Glenarden Road and on Allen Roads North and South. To facilitate this work safely, eastbound and westbound traffic on Eglinton Avenue West reduced to one lane in each direction between Park Hill Road and Glenarden. Additionally, Allen Roads North and South will be reduced to one lane. This work will be carried out in three phases and is expected to take place on Monday – Friday between 4:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., for approximately five (5) days. Significant traffic changes will be in effect, please read carefully this full notice for details.​
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What to Expect​
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Roads between Park Hill Road and Glenarden Road will have restricted access for approximately two (2) hours for the duration of the work in the immediate area. Concrete barriers, fencing, and signage will be in place to delineate the work zones. Noise and vibration from construction activity including trucks, asphalt removals, paving, and compacting can be expected. Traffic control personnel and/or a Paid Duty Officer will be present, while this work takes place. One lane of traffic in each direction will be maintained at all times on Eglinton Avenue West. Expect delays while traveling through the area.​
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HOURS OF WORK​
  • As early as Tuesday, May 2, 2023, for approximately five (5) days.
  • Work is expected to take place on Monday – Friday between 4:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. The approximate duration of each phase is listed below:
    • Phase One: This phase is expected to take place on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, for approximately 1.5 days
    • Phase Two: This phase is expected to take place on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, for approximately 1.5 days
    • Phase Three: This phase is expected to take place on Thursday, May 4, 2023, for approximately 1.5 days
  • Work may be rescheduled due to inclement weather and/or unforeseen circumstances.
  • This work may be longer or shorter than expected.
TRAFFIC DETAILS ​
  • Phase One: A work zone will be in place on the north side of Eglinton Avenue West between Allen Road North and Allen Road South. Eastbound and westbound traffic on Eglinton Avenue West will be reduced to one lane in each direction between Park Hill Road and Glenarden Road. Traffic on Allen Road North and Allen Road South will be reduced to one lane. Access to Park Hill Road will remain restricted.
  • Phase Two: A work zone will be in place on the north side of Eglinton Avenue West between Park Hill Road and Allen Road South and between Allen Road North and Glenarden Road. Eastbound and westbound traffic on Eglinton Avenue West will be reduced to one lane in each direction between Park Hill Road and Glenarden Road. Traffic on Allen Road North and Allen Road South will be reduced to one lane. Access to Park Hill Road will remain restricted.
  • Phase Three: A work zone will be in place on the south side of Eglinton Avenue West between Park Hill Road and Glenarden Road and on Park Hill Road. Eastbound and westbound traffic on Eglinton Avenue West will be reduced to one lane in each direction between Park Hill Road and Glenarden Road. Winnett Avenue, Everden Road, Strathearn Road and Flanders Road will have restricted access for approximately two (2) hours for the duration of the work in the immediate area. Periodic lane reductions will be required on Allen Road South
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PEDESTRIAN DETAILS​
  • Temporary pedestrian rerouting may be in effect.
  • A flag persons will be present to help direct pedestrians crossing Eglinton Avenue West.
  • The sidewalk on the north side of Eglinton Avenue West between the TTC Entrance and Flanders Road will remain restricted.
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TRANSIT INFORMATION​
  • Access to TTC will be maintained at all times.
 
Admiral Beez said:
I’m reminded of the track extension to the Leslie Street Barns where the builder forgot to make tracks at the correct height and had to tear them up.


What sort of monkeys are we graduating from Canadian engineering schools? Even I know the mantra of measure twice, cut once.
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You get what you pay for. If you have governments and corporations that refuse to pay for good quality labour, you won't get good quality labour.

Human greed is flourishing in this neoliberal age in which we live.
 
T3G said:
You get what you pay for. If you have governments and corporations that refuse to pay for good quality labour, you won't get good quality labour.

Human greed is flourishing in this neoliberal age in which we live.
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in all honesty its actually a systemic problem that we as a society made itself. all the top notch contractors are old and retiring and we are stigmatising skilled trades as a lower class in society.
everyone is trying to be a white collared job and parents are pushing their children to be bankers, lawyers, IT etc that we have a shortage of trades. iirc in the next few years we will be short 1million nationally.

this in a way explains just why construction quality industrywide here has fallen dramatically.
 
cplchanb said:
this is solely on the shoulders of the construction management team.
they failed to properly coordinate this work properly and now we are on the hook both in time and money to replace this at a snails pace.
sometimes things dont line up but its their jobs to verify on site and make sure everything is communicated properly. obviously this was not done
and it only took until now to do something about it.
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Hold on. Some of these errors could have been detected during the construction process if there was proper oversight. Running a hightail vehicle with measuring devices will tell you that the track is out of spec by 3mm.

Unless that is how it was in the drawings. Then there is lack of oversight there. We didn't have to get to 90% completion to figure that out and be delayed two months. That's just an excuse.

It's poor project management from the beginning or they didn't hire the right people to keep the contractors in compliance.

And as for the concrete that is being ripped up, a construction consultant was on TV saying that the contractors build it wrong on purpose to charge money to fix it. So that probably means they built it to the spec they were told. So it's not their fault that they have to get paid to fix it again. Its not a warranty issue since they did it to spec, if the spec is wrong that's not their problem.

What should have happened is before they poured it, have both parties check that the spec was right on paper and that it met the actual design requirements and fixed it at that point. But if they do that they don't get to charge the province twice. Proper oversight by knowledgeable people costs money, but fixing it after is likely more expensive.

And the excuse that they inherited this poorly managed project from a "liberal" government is crap. It was Doug Ford's own brother that forced the province to build it underground. If it was built the way it was intended, it would have been finished three years ago.
 
For my 5000th post (wow how time flies) i'd like to take some time to congratulate all parties involved in this disaster fiasco of a project.

Most especially the Ontario Liberals and Conservatives, in addition to Metrolinx for ensuring that this project ran so off course with practically almost no repercussions to the private companies involved. They never let us down when it comes down to major infrastructure projects.

Just imagine if the delays are this bad with the Crosstown Line, Union Station probably wont be finished construction until 2100 the way Metrolinx and the government holds no one to account for anything.
 
Admiral Beez said:
I don‘t think lack of funds has ever been a problem. If the costs exceed budget, we just increase the spend.
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Lack of funds isn't an issue, no. But this is what happens when you give the contracts to the lowest bidder.

If you want results, you have to pay more for someone who actually gives a damn. You wouldn't be getting 260 quality control issues if the project was being delivered by people who in any way cared.
 
Bordercollie said:
Hold on. Some of these errors could have been detected during the construction process if there was proper oversight. Running a hightail vehicle with measuring devices will tell you that the track is out of spec by 3mm.
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How in hell do you lay nearly 30 km of dual track and not see that it’s out of spec? Haven’t we been running the LRT on test for several months now?
 
T3G said:
If you want results, you have to pay more for someone who actually gives a damn. You wouldn't be getting 260 quality control issues if the project was being delivered by people who in any way cared.
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Caring and capability are not linked. You can easily have a project with hundreds of quality control issues being delivered by some of the most caring, dedicated people available.... since they can still be morons.

Not everyone screws up because they don't GAF, often they don't have the skillset or ability to do the job properly. And that can apply no matter the budget, billion $ firms can hire idiots just as easily as lowballers.
 
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Officials say Eglinton Crosstown has 260 deficiencies and still no firm completion timeline​

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Days after CityNews reported construction crews were ripping up Sloane station on the yet-to-be-opened Eglinton Crosstown LRT, provincial officials have confirmed there are approximately 260 deficiencies to be dealt with along the line.

During an unrelated announcement at the Toronto Transit Commission’s headquarters Thursday morning about furthering procurement work on the Yonge North subway extension, Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney and Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster faced several questions about the state of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line.

“I am fully responsible for the opening of the system, but we’ve seen in Ottawa what happens when politicians push subway systems or transit systems to open before they’re ready … and we don’t want that to happen here,” Mulroney said.

Premier Doug Ford said he told Verster and Mulroney the Crosstown shouldn’t open until it is 100 per cent safe.

“I’m not going to pull a Mayor (Jim) Watson in Ottawa, pushing it forward, derailing the LRT in Ottawa, making a total mess of it,” he said at an unrelated press conference.

Ottawa’s LRT has been plagued with repeated closures and operating problems since the 12.5-kilometre line opened with 13 stations in 2019.

A public inquiry revealed a litany of issues including doors that wouldn’t close properly, wheels that became flat after use, and a frustrating inconsistency operating in winter weather. The inquiry also revealed a lack of transparency and accountability about the problems.

Mulroney and Verster blamed the contractor, Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS), for the delay while also citing disrupted supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We are working closely with Metrolinx to get CTS, who’s delivering the project for us, to provide a credible schedule so that we can then let the people of Ontario know when we’ll be able to open the system,” Mulroney said.

The biggest problem, Verster said, is the track, which was completed in 2021.

“It’s outside of specification, though, and it needs to be rectified,” Verster said. “And despite our urging and our guidance, it’s only being rectified now.”
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Verster said many issues have arisen with the project, including the track, which was completed in 2021.

“Despite our urging and our guidance, it’s only being rectified now and it will have a two-month impact at least on the completion date,” he said.

“If you have track, which was literally millimeters out of specification … the risk you have is that a train runs and actually climbs up on the track and derails. So the degree of accuracy that we’re talking about are literally millimeters, that must be done right.”

Verster added testing and commissioning is behind schedule, as is the phase in which CTS engineers certify documentation that work has been done to specification.

“We’re spending an inordinate amount actively managing and guiding CTS in their delivery. And yes, we want this, we want this project completed. But I gotta say my biggest concern is that the quality is right. And that we get a safe transit system. We are building infrastructure for the next 100 to 150 years. And we’ve got to get it right.”

The project also started behind schedule, Verster said, with initial design work between nine and 18 months delayed.

“Losing 18 months at the beginning of a project is never really recovered thereafter,” he said.

Verster said one lesson learned is to break contracts into smaller parts because if one entity is responsible for the entire project, there is a greater likelihood of it not succeeding because of the scale, Verster said. Mulroney added the government is approaching the construction of the Ontario Line transit project in that way.

CityNews contacted CTS on Thursday to ask for comment made during the news conference, but a spokesperson for the company didn’t respond.

The line was originally set to open in 2020, but its deadline was pushed back multiple times and in the latter part of 2022 an indefinite delay was announced. CityNews reported earlier in 2023 how political staff rejected efforts by Metrolinx staff to tell the public more about issues plaguing the line.

The latest visible hiccup came on Thursday when a CityNews crew visited Sloane station, located between the Don Valley Parkway and Victoria Park Avenue, and saw a jackhammer being used to dig up the platform along with crews bringing out large chunks of concrete in a wheelbarrow, dumping the items into a Bobcat machine and then the discarded items being put into a dumpster.

In a notice posted online the following day as CityNews began to ask about the work happening, it said work is underway to repair “an uneven layer of concrete” and that the work, which is scheduled to take place over the course of a month, “requires chipping of the platform and placing new concrete.” Sources familiar with the work being done told CityNews the original grading of the concrete caused issues with water ponding on the platform.
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CityNews asked Metrolinx on Friday what specifically was wrong with the station, what inspection and quality control measures were in place when the platform was built years ago, how the problem got missed, and what’s the cost to fix the issues. In a two-sentence statement, Metrolinx staff didn’t elaborate on the background but noted the matter was identified proactively.

“Crews are currently working on the Sloane platform to perform repairs on a section of concrete that was identified through our strict quality control and inspection process,” the statement said.

“There are no costs to the taxpayer as this work is part of the existing project contract requirements.”

Joel Harden, the NDP MPP for Ottawa Centre and the party’s transit critic, slammed the Ford government hours after the revelations were made.

“It’s clear to be the government has lost control of this project,” he told CityNews.

“The public deserves to know what is wrong with the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. The public deserves to know why the costs of this project ballooned from $5 billion to $13 billion. The public deserves to know why it’s two years late. We need a lot more detail.”

Matti Siemiatycki, the director of the University of Toronto’s Infrastructure Institute and a geography professor, echoed the need for more information.

“In that information vortex you’re seeing public concern around the construction and just frustration building, trust eroded,” he said during an interview with CityNews.

When asked how the Eglinton Crosstown compares with other major infrastructure projects, he said it isn’t unique anymore.

“These big projects will always have deficiencies, the question is how quickly they’re caught and how quickly they’re fixed,” he said.
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If the tracks were completed in 2021, why weren't they corrected in 2021, or 2022. Why now?
 
This project seems to be riddled with QA and safety issues.

www.thestar.com

Crane collapse brings new scrutiny to Crosstown LRT construction problems

The delayed Crosstown project has seen three notable accidents in a little over a month: a worker’s serious injury in a fall, a landslide and now the collapse of a mobile crane into a sinkhole.
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globalnews.ca

Investigations continues into incident that left Eglinton LRT worker dead - Toronto | Globalnews.ca

Crosslinx said a worker at the Cedarvale Station site died after being hit by a cement truck.
globalnews.ca globalnews.ca

canada.constructconnect.com

Investigation continues into collapse that injured seven at Eglinton LRT site - Daily Commercial News

Top Ministry of Labour officials expressed sympathy and regret after a wall undergoing demolition collapsed at the site of a future Metrolinx Eglinton Crosstown LRT station in Toronto on Monday, April 18, sending seven people to hospital.
canada.constructconnect.com canada.constructconnect.com

streetsoftoronto.com

Tragic death spurs action at Yonge and Eglinton

Locals push for more safety measures in busy construction zone
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www.toronto.com

This Eglinton LRT stop is being ripped up before it has even opened. Here’s why

Construction crews are back at Sloane stop — one that sits on the much-awaited Eglinton Crosstown LRT line — digging up the new platform for repairs even before it ever
www.toronto.com www.toronto.com
 
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