Toronto Ontario Line: Corktown Station | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | HDR

kotsy said:
If there's no TBMing south of Front, how are they getting to the portal? Doesn't seem like an area that can be done cut and cover.
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SEM mining of two tunnels from just south of Front st to just east of Cherry st, where the remaining stretch to the portal is cut and cover.

They’re also using SEM to dig underneath Front st, too many utilities in the way just below street level.
 
Excited, but looking around- can’t help but think this won’t be finished in my lifetime.

Sheppard took 9yrs for 5.5km of straight tunnel.

Ontario Line is 15.6, with above and below ground, tunnelling, twists and turns in the most inefficient and incompetent era.

Like maaaaaybe things speed up in the 19th year of Doug Ford’s reign, after amalgamating the PM’s office with the premiership and Toronto mayoralty - and making the cyclists imprisoned with “bike crime” work “voluntarily” for reduced sentencing. But I don’t know if I’ll be able to afford my No Frill’s vaccines by then.
 
jxmith_ said:
Excited, but looking around- can’t help but think this won’t be finished in my lifetime.

Sheppard took 9yrs for 5.5km of straight tunnel.

Ontario Line is 15.6, with above and below ground, tunnelling, twists and turns in the most inefficient and incompetent era.
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What I gleam from this is you’re nearing your death bed.

There are 4 major tunnelling activities, all which can be done in parallel. The mining mentioned above, then one TBM travelling ~1.5km, another travelling ~3.0km, and another travelling ~3.3km.

Station and portal work is advancing rapidly across the whole line. The slowest out the gate is the north contract works (which was latest to be awarded iirc).

jxmith_ said:
Like maaaaaybe things speed up in the 19th year of Doug Ford’s reign, after amalgamating the PM’s office with the premiership and Toronto mayoralty - and making the cyclists imprisoned with “bike crime” work “voluntarily” for reduced sentencing. But I don’t know if I’ll be able to afford my No Frill’s vaccines by then.
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Give it a rest, mate, this isn’t the place for it.
 
South of Front St update from today:

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jxmyth_ said:
Excited, but looking around- can’t help but think this won’t be finished in my lifetime.

Sheppard took 9yrs for 5.5km of straight tunnel.

Ontario Line is 15.6, with above and below ground, tunnelling, twists and turns in the most inefficient and incompetent era.

Like maaaaaybe things speed up in the 19th year of Doug Ford’s reign, after amalgamating the PM’s office with the premiership and Toronto mayoralty - and making the cyclists imprisoned with “bike crime” work “voluntarily” for reduced sentencing. But I don’t know if I’ll be able to afford my No Frill’s vaccines by then.
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So you're not a Ford supporter? What does this have to do with anything in this thread?
 
Isotack said:
So you're not a Ford supporter? What does this have to do with anything in this thread?
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Raising concerns about the length in time this project will be completed, I gather. Although...that should be more directed at the meta thread for this over on Transportation and Infrastructure. /shrug
 
Isotack said:
So you're not a Ford supporter? What does this have to do with anything in this thread?
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This is the entry point for the boring machine in the downtown core, which I imagine means they’ll want it as an operational site longer than other stops (general access, moving material, replacing the machine etc). So the longer this goes, the longer we’ll go before it’s sealed up and developed. Sorry for making a crack about - I presume your personal idol- as is the tradition about civic projects. I’ll be sure to include some zingers about Mel Lastman and Berkley St next time 🙏
 
jxmyth_ said:
This is the entry point for the boring machine in the downtown core, which I imagine means they’ll want it as an operational site longer than other stops (general access, moving material, replacing the machine etc). So the longer this goes, the longer we’ll go before it’s sealed up and developed. Sorry for making a crack about - I presume your personal idol- as is the tradition about civic projects. I’ll be sure to include some zingers about Mel Lastman and Berkley St next time 🙏
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Some people just can't read a room. There is comment after comment in these station threads such as "moving fast". Plus the project, with three separate tunnels is NOTHING like the crosstown. There is more space, one critical downtown station already has some actual infrastructure there for the most part. (the station platform)

Nice try at rescuing your useless post with a ....oh...I was talking about this site being sealed up. No you weren't.

As for "my personal idol"...I never said that and nobody gives a hoot anyway. You were told to stick to the subject. So you doubled down with still more political BS. Well done!
 
jxmyth_ said:
This is the entry point for the boring machine in the downtown core, which I imagine means they’ll want it as an operational site longer than other stops (general access, moving material, replacing the machine etc). So the longer this goes, the longer we’ll go before it’s sealed up and developed. Sorry for making a crack about - I presume your personal idol- as is the tradition about civic projects. I’ll be sure to include some zingers about Mel Lastman and Berkley St next time 🙏
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Goodness, that not-apology laden with a strawman and the ad hominem is not helping your case here. At all...

...as well as, this project is moving at a fairly serious click despite our Preem. And there are plenty of other places around the UT Forum to go after him...so let's get back to the subject at hand here! Thnkx!
 
UtakataNoAnnex said:
Goodness, that not-apology laden with a strawman and the ad hominem is not helping your case here. At all...

...as well as, this project is moving at a fairly serious click despite our Preem. And there are plenty of other places around the UT Forum to go after him...so let's get back to the subject at hand here! Thnkx!
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You guys seem intent on dragging this out to play hall monitor *shrug*
 
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