TOareaFan
Superstar
Helps that part of it was built in 1940 or so
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thettctransitfanatic
Senior Member
Helps that part of it was built in 1940 or so
As part of the Kodak Building. It's nice to see Metrolinx actually gave a damn, and preserved part of the Kodak Building.
Palma
Senior Member
its suppose to open in 2021
nfitz
Superstar
September 2021 is the contractually agreed upon date. Just over 2.5 years.
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
It is but it has me wondering about the construction timeline and why was this small area done first? To me, this is something that could have been later in the year in the spring rather than right now in the middle of winter, plus it makes more sense to me that they would have stared from laird and not som,e random spot in the middle of the above ground section.
Steve X
Senior Member
Maybe stations still haven't been dug out. Just look at Mt Pleasant or Fairbanks. It's just a 3-5 metre pit. We'll know for sure if it'll open on time or not by fall.
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
lead82
Senior Member
I predict it will open in either late 2022 or early 2023.
smallspy
Senior Member
They have to do the west end of the line first as that is where the garage as, and thus that is where the mainline testing will start.
If the garage was built in the east end, that part of the line would be far ahead and nearly completed, with the west end languishing far behind.
Dan
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
I know the garage is the west end but this part where they poured concrete is in the east end as part of one of the open sections of the line which I don't get why they are pouring concrete so soon for.
smallspy
Senior Member
They have two and a half years to finish this thing. The at-grade portion of the line is about 9km. You expect them to pour all of that in the course of a weekend in a year's time?!? It's going to take them time to get everything ready, and they've got to start somewhere.
Dan
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
nope, I figured they would go from one end to the other and not some random spot in the middle of the line. It's the spot that doesn't make any sense to me.
KevinT
Active Member
You start where you can start, waiting to begin at an idealized location just wastes time. The condition and location of existing utilities, the number of relocations required, their depth, soil conditions, affects on neighbouring homes and business due to detour scheduling or other projects, plus a million other things we don't know from the outside looking in were all undoubtedly factors in this location becoming 'the' place where the first embedded track was poured.
TransitBart
Senior Member
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What if this made sense because there were still utility re-locations at other places on the line? There are still other infrastructure issues. For example, the bridge re-hab over the east Don River at Wynford is not yet done. Laying track is easy. Building a solid trackbed where all the other key bits like power, gas and water are safely out of the way is more challenging and time-consuming. All of that work done ten, and twenty and thirty years ago, never contemplated rails on the street. At the time, laying it under (or close to) the roadbed made sense.
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
That doesn't make it a good reason to lay track in a random location. They should be working from one end to another, not doing it in random pecies just because it's easier to do a certain section. All I'm saying is I would have expected this part to be amongst the last done as it's a flat section of the line and could be done at anytime without delays. Having parts of track layed but not connected to the rest of the system makes no sense to me whatsoever at all. It just seems like the timeline on things hasn't been planned properly at all and they have too many crews doing smaller projects at the same time.