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Toronto Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

Allandale25 said:
Update: https://x.com/Metrolinx/status/1730249064032182374?t=f5oMI5y0Aap-A0_rVQOF6w&s=08

Text of tweet:

Today, at the public session of the Metrolinx Board of Directors meeting (watch live: https://www.metrolinx.com/en/about-us/the-board/board-meetings/meeting-2023-11-30), Phil Verster, CEO shared details around the status and progress of the @CrosstownTO project:

“We will announce an opening date for the Eglinton Crosstown three months before opening day. We are not there yet. We are making sure everything is built right and operates correctly and safely. Our contractor, CTS, is finding issues that must be fixed before we can open the Eglinton Crosstown for safe and reliable passenger services.

We will host journalists in early December at the Eglinton and Yonge station, the largest and most complex station on the ECLRT, and where the final pieces of construction are now nearing completion. It will be a walk-through with first-hand visibility and Q&A about the five work streams that will fix the uncertainties and get us to opening day.”
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So the endless directionless wait continues ...
 
Allandale25 said:
We will host journalists in early December at the Eglinton and Yonge station, the largest and most complex station on the ECLRT, and where the final pieces of construction are now nearing completion. It will be a walk-through with first-hand visibility and Q&A about the five work streams that will fix the uncertainties and get us to opening day.”
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Maybe we can get the station added to Doors Open permanently so that every May the public will have an opportunity to see the inside of Crosstown stations.
 
I will ask this question and other places and if I get an answers for it, I will give everyone something to laugh at.

How lone would it take to installed poles and the OS for 8 and 10 Km like Crosstown and Finch???
 
Would LOVE to know what the outstanding issues still are. Even more than an opening date, would love to just know what's still wrong.

Bunch of little things? Or a big thing? Or both?

They know. They're not telling us. It's weird. Why does it need to be kept a secret?

I've heard rumours the foundation slab underneath the Yonge/Eglinton station box is cracked and they don't know how to fix it.
 
hawc said:
Would LOVE to know what the outstanding issues still are. Even more than an opening date, would love to just know what's still wrong.

Bunch of little things? Or a big thing? Or both?

They know. They're not telling us. It's weird. Why does it need to be kept a secret?

I've heard rumours the foundation slab underneath the Yonge/Eglinton station box is cracked and they don't know how to fix it.
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I've still got 10 bucks that says they dug too deep and ran into a Balrog.
 
hawc said:
Would LOVE to know what the outstanding issues still are. Even more than an opening date, would love to just know what's still wrong.

Bunch of little things? Or a big thing? Or both?

They know. They're not telling us. It's weird. Why does it need to be kept a secret?

I've heard rumours the foundation slab underneath the Yonge/Eglinton station box is cracked and they don't know how to fix it.
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If they released that kind of information,the media and opposition politicians who are against any transit spending would use it to try to show that we shouldn't spend money on projects like this.
 
micheal_can said:
If they released that kind of information,the media and opposition politicians who are against any transit spending would use it to try to show that we shouldn't spend money on projects like this.
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Meh. More likely they'd argue for responsible management of transit projects.

The thought that we can't have transparency because it could lead to criticism is dark path to go down.
 
hawc said:
Meh. More likely they'd argue for responsible management of transit projects.

The thought that we can't have transparency because it could lead to criticism is dark path to go down.
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I am not suggesting that they shouldn't, but am suggesting that there are reasons that they aren't.
 
hawc said:
Would LOVE to know what the outstanding issues still are. Even more than an opening date, would love to just know what's still wrong.

Bunch of little things? Or a big thing? Or both?

They know. They're not telling us. It's weird. Why does it need to be kept a secret?

I've heard rumours the foundation slab underneath the Yonge/Eglinton station box is cracked and they don't know how to fix it.
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Not sure but I think they talked about that foundation issue at the last meeting and it was resolved, for a while actually. A bit to my surprise because Metrolinx held on to it for a while. I think they are adopting a very strict handover position where the history of performance has reduced the relationship between CTS and Metrolinx to the point that almost every detail will have to completed before Metrolinx/TTC will even look at taking over the entire site. It's mostly commissioning and training now. In my experience in other construction work, once substantial completion is met and payments are made you may let some minor snags go but, contractors are very quick to move their resources to other projects, leaving minimal crews to "finish up". I think we are close, they'll want to open this in nicer dry even temperature weather, i.e. late spring at the earliest.
 
We have one tiny hint of one issue for the Crosstown.......

From the Major Projects update on next week's TTC Agenda; in the Fire Ventilation subsection:


From the above:

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