Toronto GO Transit: Davenport Diamond Grade Separation | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

Two segments left!

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It's the cheapest. Noone wants to pay premium to dye the concrete

That's our culture in a nutshell. In other places, people love to pay the premium to have nice things in the public realm. We're stuck in the mentality of "I use my money to make my house and backyard nice. Who cares about everything else?"
 
The last span at the north end is ready to be dropped in place. There are a couple of spans left at the south end, once the erection machine is removed and the final pillars poured, I expect the linear crane will be removed altogether and then the horizontal crane at the south end will place those.
The days of the diamond - which has been there since the 1880's - are clearly numbered.
It's wonderful to see a project that is moving along so well.

- Paul

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I feel like growing vines on the pillars would be a good solution.

Sure, however, a bit expensive, rules around bridge structures require easy access to the concrete for inspection purposes.

That would require any vines be trellis'ed; and that said trellis'es be movable, and or set in front of the concrete sufficiently to allow for inspection in behind.
 
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