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

[stevensontransit]

lol maybe get China involved in help building metrolinx project such as this, line 6, Eglinton crosstown west, Ontario line, and Scarborough subway and maybe they will finish these lines much faster than anyone predicted!!

NOTE: Don’t take this too seriously! It’s just a joke!

 

[TwoWheelPoli]

Unfortunately, the road resurfacing on Eglinton from Keele to Mount Pleasant will happen without bike lanes per this construction notice.

If you want to raise some hell on this, I prepared an action alert on my blog.

It’s Time to Demand Accountability for Eglinton

A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)

www.twowheeledpolitics.ca

 

[Northern Light]

In better news the cycle tracks on York Gate are in a tender to be awarded at next week's Bid Award Ctte.

https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.BA148.9

 

[Admiral Beez]

Sorry to say, but this thing aint opening in October either.

Well, I was wrong in 2023.

My guess is at the earliest we’ll see service begin in spring 2024. Followed by a O-Train like shutdown soon after opening due to some oversight in operations, design or execution. I call Spring 2024 because the lawsuits between Metrolinx and their contractors need to be settled, which can take months. And then construction work needs to be resumed and completed, followed by post-winter testing and trials.

Shall we call Spring 2026?

lol maybe get China involved in help building metrolinx project such as this, line 6, Eglinton crosstown west, Ontario line, and Scarborough subway and maybe they will finish these lines much faster than anyone predicted!!

We built the TransCanada railway in a record 4 years with Chinese help. https://torontorailwaymuseum.com/remembering-the-chinese-railway-workers/

 

[nfitz]

We built the TransCanada railway in a record 4 years with Chinese help.

"help"

 

[GenerationLee]

Unfortunately, the road resurfacing on Eglinton from Keele to Mount Pleasant will happen without bike lanes per this construction notice.

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If you want to raise some hell on this, I prepared an action alert on my blog.

It’s Time to Demand Accountability for Eglinton

A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)

www.twowheeledpolitics.ca

This genuinely angers me. It's a no brainer to put bike lanes here, when we should be discouraging drivers from using Eglinton, improve the cycle network that's already strengthened in this area due to the Beltine, and encourage more people to bike along said network.
Plus, this reconstruction project makes it so that there's much less hassle adding in bike lanes, rather than closing off lanes whenever the city possibly does add bike lanes here (which frankly, I dont see happening for a long long time, if ever)

I live closeby, and would be much more likely to cycle with this project. (but heck, I won't, not with construction still everywhere in this part of town)

 

[smallspy]

Unfortunately, the road resurfacing on Eglinton from Keele to Mount Pleasant will happen without bike lanes per this construction notice.

View attachment 677360

If you want to raise some hell on this, I prepared an action alert on my blog.

It’s Time to Demand Accountability for Eglinton

A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)

www.twowheeledpolitics.ca

I'm not so sure that there's "nothing happening" when it comes to the bike lanes.

New signals were installed a couple of weeks ago at Eglinton and Redpath - and in them there include some new phases which the current roadway configuration can not support.

It may not be the optimum solution, but it sure looks to my eye that they will be introducing painted bike lanes on Eglinton in this section at the least. Once the repaving is done, of course.

Dan

 

[MegaSea]

Blame Olivia Chow, she said "support" public transit
So she should to force open Line 5 before 2026 World Cup, to prove toronto still is "world-class" city

 

[drum118]

Who said there are to be no bike lanes on Eglinton between Keele and Mount Pleasant?? There are some in various place now, but there are places there is no room to do it. One needs to travel that route by car transit and cycle it as well walk it it to see it first hand. I don't cycle anymore as it has become more dangerous to do so the last 15 years and you need bike lanes but a great cost. One needs to look at street width to see if a lane can be put there in the first place, but more so does the Province have the authority to say no which is now heading to the Supreme Court say yes or no. Why should the city spend money at this time to put in lanes now to only have to remove them if the Supreme Court said yes the Province can say no to bike lanes??

There are bike lanes on Eglinton outside of that map area now and were built during the construction of the Line 5.

 

[T3G]

Blame Olivia Chow, she said "support" public transit
So she should to force open Line 5 before 2026 World Cup, to prove toronto still is "world-class" city

She has zero authority to do that.

 

[SaugeenJunction]

Was at Sloane/Eglinton for a while around noon, no trains testing. The green track is also getting really overgrown, they need to cut it.

 

[dowlingm]

My boss at work used to say he wanted things done "yesterday". I don't think TTC bosses are familiar with that expression.

TTC bosses presumably didn’t have access to a time machine like yours did.

The only other bosses who successfully get demands for things “yesterday” are the ones too clueless to realize their team is getting things done despite their “guidance” but assuming they are bone lazy.

Have I used “yesterday”? Sure: in answer to “when is this expected by the powers that be” I have been known to answer “Yesterday, but that’s not happening, so let’s talk about what would prevent it being done today/this week”

As for the Chair, all he seems to be doing there is perpetuating the same old nonsense. If we are past the point where service can be turned on, and he knows that, he should answer “no, we are not close enough yet” to a query about service being possible in September. If he doesn’t know, he should say “I don’t know, but the commission will follow up with you to ensure you are giving people accurate expectations through your paper/channel”. But given the situation TTC is in, he should know if it’s already a hard no without having to check

 

[dowlingm]

Yeah good idea! Maybe get China involved into building here!

I don’t think China would care for another round of how their countrymen built the Canadian railroads.

Even setting aside the grim historical comparator, if we can’t manage having Deutsche Bahn run GO trains, we’re not building transit using contemporary Chinese norms

 

[Northern Light]

I'm sure this is an old one that's been posted before, but it just appeared in my social feed and made me smile:

Did not see a credit.

 

[urbancog]

The image suggests the delay is due to the line being converted to maglev.