Hand-laid is cheaper than both smooth and brick-faced precast right now, incredibly.This one is going to be all traditional hand-laid masonry No prefab brick here
They really need to upgrade the intersection at St. Clair/Old Weston road though - one lane through there is a nightmare.
It's really bad both for drivers and cyclists. Unfortunately, there's no current provision in the underpass widening project to include bike lanes. I think they should have just depressed the railway corridor in a trench for the SmartTrack station and restored St. Clair Avenue West to cross it at grade. They would have had more road space that way.