Tuscani01
Senior Member
It’s going to open Jan 1, 2023. Free rides for everyone to ring in the new year and a firework show to celebrate the opening of the line and the end of the pandemic.
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WillTo
Senior Member
Open in 2023.
2024 it will close again for a few months when they find defects à la Confederation Line.
2024 it will close again for a few months when they find defects à la Confederation Line.
WillTo
Senior Member
My dad was driving me home last night when he stopped at this red light intended for trains pulling out of the portal
(covered in this streetview capture): https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.7193...4!1sVnFAEb8qBWAGmq9HmWIQOQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
(covered in this streetview capture): https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.7193...4!1sVnFAEb8qBWAGmq9HmWIQOQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
I doubt we will have problems like that. The TTC and Metrolinx both have experience with building rail transit and commissioning it., something that the builders of the Confederation line clearly didn't
trtcttc
Senior Member
Also for as may issues as BBD had with the TTC Flexity Outlooks, they’ve worked those out the last few years and the Freedom is fairly similar and has been used in winter conditions elsewhere. Ottawa was the first operator to use the Alstom Citadis Spirit and a lot of the early issues were vehicle related.
trtcttc
Senior Member
I actually just saw this light tonight… are they keeping that as a Red signal? Seems like they should’ve used the transit bar signal, or maybe they’ll learn their lesson after an accident happens when a car suddenly breaks thinking that’s a red light.
KevinT
Active Member
Waterloo's ION only uses the white bar signals at mixed traffic intersections, on the off-street rights of way they still use red and green circles, and on the in-median rights of way they use red, green, and yellow bars. This crossover protection signal would have been bars in Waterloo, and placed as a double head in the center of the median rather than hung off to the right so close to the car traffic:
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
CharmAlarm
Active Member
Timely article - cross posted in Ontario Line thread:
montrealgazette.com
Why Canada gets less for more when it comes to building transit
At $775-million per kilometre, Montreal's blue line extension is set to cost more than twice the global median rate for urban subway construction.
montrealgazette.com
drum118
Superstar
innsertnamehere
Superstar
That article makes it pretty clear that public opening will be late 2022 or early 2023.
trtcttc
Senior Member
Is there a good reason why there’s so many types? Whether they use the international standard or their own made up one, at least pick a lane and stick to it. Also in that Google Street View, why do they need a light there? it’s a right of way with no intersection and no crossover tracks and no visibility issues.Waterloo's ION only uses the white bar signals at mixed traffic intersections, on the off-street rights of way they still use red and green circles, and on the in-median rights of way they use red, green, and yellow bars. This crossover protection signal would have been bars in Waterloo, and placed as a double head in the center of the median rather than hung off to the right so close to the car traffic:
PEC
Active Member
Does anyone want to guess when traffic around Bayview/Eglinton and Allen Rd/Eglinton will be back to normal? I'm hoping and wishing for sometime in the Spring, but that's nothing more than a wild guess.
Aplus23
Active Member
Allen road probably won't look good untill the station there is finished, and that station probably won't be finished untill near the end of the project, whenever that is.
Judging by science center and Kennedy, the roads don't finished untill 90% done, and even then Kennedy road is still not all the way open and repaved
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
Bad news. It will never look like Bayview and Eglinton in the 1950's again...
Construction at the northeast corner of Eglinton and Bayview in 1952. The Power supermarket building is still standing--it's the Rexall pharmacy mentioned above in Sunnybrook Plaza. The Reitman's is long gone.
Looking east on Eglinton from just east of Bayview in 1951. That's Howard Talbot Park and Leaside High School on the right. Today, the land on the left is home to strip plaza anchored by a Rexall pharmacy.
See link.