MafaldaBoy
Senior Member
Two more renderings of Terminal 1 station from the UP and GO electrification open houses: (sorry if these have been posted already)
Toronto Union Pearson Express | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | MMM Group Limited
cplchanb
Senior Member
Nice find....
curious on why they didnt design he building to mimic that of the existing cable train station. from the second picure looks like its not even attached to the other building.
whats the point of closing the train when they arent even putting a decent effort in integrating the 2 platforms into 1 streamlined building......?
curious on why they didnt design he building to mimic that of the existing cable train station. from the second picure looks like its not even attached to the other building.
whats the point of closing the train when they arent even putting a decent effort in integrating the 2 platforms into 1 streamlined building......?
junctionist
Senior Member
The architecture isn't bad, but it isn't that great either. I like the Y columns on the interior. A ceiling clad in wooden panels would be a nice touch of warmth to the grey structure.
drum118
Superstar
June 30rd.
From the looks of things, the new bridges are in place west of Weston Rd. I didn't get a look at Hwy 27 bridge.
Carlingview is close as they have started to build the new underpass.
The Elevated line to the Terminal is almost completed where it connect to the ground south of the corridor. The based is pour where I was for the tracks, but the track support not in place at this time. Pier supports for the electrification of the line are in place between the tracks.
At Kipling, they are starting to built the retaining wall where the spur is to be relocated to.
The corridor from the Humber Bridge is is almost ready for tracks with retaining wall being installed on the south side. Until the Weston Rd new north side (phase 1) bridge is in place, can't relocate the existing track #1 on the Humber Bridge so it can be rebuilt as the new #4 track and allowing the new #3 track bridge to be install.
From the looks of things, the new bridges are in place west of Weston Rd. I didn't get a look at Hwy 27 bridge.
Carlingview is close as they have started to build the new underpass.
The Elevated line to the Terminal is almost completed where it connect to the ground south of the corridor. The based is pour where I was for the tracks, but the track support not in place at this time. Pier supports for the electrification of the line are in place between the tracks.
At Kipling, they are starting to built the retaining wall where the spur is to be relocated to.
The corridor from the Humber Bridge is is almost ready for tracks with retaining wall being installed on the south side. Until the Weston Rd new north side (phase 1) bridge is in place, can't relocate the existing track #1 on the Humber Bridge so it can be rebuilt as the new #4 track and allowing the new #3 track bridge to be install.
Xray_Crystal_Junkie
Senior Member
Exciting stuff, thanks for the update.
drum118
Superstar
July 21 Bloor photos are up on line and Burlington will be up this weekend or sooner.
Once that tunnel is place into service, residents will be able to get to/from Dundas West Station as well Freshico a lot faster than today. The accessibility community will love it as well people who hate to climb the overpass.
Looking at the photos again, it looks like the Milton line will be using the #2 track for KW due to the shifting of the tracks to the Strachan underpass later this year. The current #2 Milton line will swing over to the new track north of the station shown above. Train may have to slow down at this point from the current speed. Not enough room to shift it back south of Bloor to get to the signal block other been very sharp and slowing train down.
Once that tunnel is place into service, residents will be able to get to/from Dundas West Station as well Freshico a lot faster than today. The accessibility community will love it as well people who hate to climb the overpass.
Looking at the photos again, it looks like the Milton line will be using the #2 track for KW due to the shifting of the tracks to the Strachan underpass later this year. The current #2 Milton line will swing over to the new track north of the station shown above. Train may have to slow down at this point from the current speed. Not enough room to shift it back south of Bloor to get to the signal block other been very sharp and slowing train down.
smallspy
Senior Member
No, the Milton Line will not be switching over to the Weston Sub/Georgetown Line. They are running the Galt Sub track to be parallel with the Weston Sub to allow them to build the rest of the tunnel quickly.
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
drum118
Superstar
I find that strange since they put in 3/4 of the tunnel on the weekend, leaving the Milton corridor to be done on another weekend. What so special about the tunnel on that side since my source at Metrolinx is gone now for this line for this move?
I still get the feeling regardless what has been said to date, the Milton Line will be stopping at Bloor to allow connection to the UP Line. It should had happen from day one since you are forcing riders to go all the way to Union to travel the same distance again to get to/from the airport and wasting people time.
At some point, the Milton line has to swing over as I stated to use the new fly under regardless if it here or further down the line.
TOareaFan
Superstar
Do they expect many people to travel eastward on that line to switch to UPE? I would be surprised if there were many/any that would do that...even if they could make the swtich at Bloor.
smallspy
Senior Member
Dunno, but the signal system on the CPR Galt Sub is different than that on the ex-CN lines, and not directly compatible, as I understand it. You can't just change the lines willy-nilly and create new interchange locations overnight - it involves serious programming, and takes weeks. Moving the Galt Sub over without an actual interchange can be easily done as it is within the limits of a single signal block.
That is the plan, in the long term. How long, however, is unknown.
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
nfitz
Superstar
Agreed. Given the trains already stop at Kipling, and there is a non-stop express bus from Kipling to Pearson, wouldn't it be faster (and cheaper!) to change at Kipling than at Dundas West?
TOareaFan
Superstar
Sure, but I was actually wondering how many people would be travelling on a train from west of the airport to a stop east of the airport to go back westward to get back to the airport.
I would love to see GO try having bus extesions from Dixie and Malton to the Airport. Have a bus waiting for each eastbound train (maybe even westbound) that would take people directly from those stations into the airport terminals.
LowPolygon
Senior Member
John St, Weston.
Platform 27
Active Member
via TomWilliams6891 on twitter, our first view of what it looks like at the guideway's highest point:
Interesting how the people-mover tracks (wrapped in black cloth) mesh with the new guideway structure so that it looks almost as if the train came first and the people-mover was added later rather than vice versa.
The station's unfortunately hidden behind the parking structure from this angle, so hard to tell what kind of headway they're making on it. Anyone been at the airport lately?
Interesting how the people-mover tracks (wrapped in black cloth) mesh with the new guideway structure so that it looks almost as if the train came first and the people-mover was added later rather than vice versa.
The station's unfortunately hidden behind the parking structure from this angle, so hard to tell what kind of headway they're making on it. Anyone been at the airport lately?
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