Toronto Bloor-Lansdowne GO Station | 6.77m | 1s | Metrolinx | Brown + Storey

[Amare]

Ho boy! Another Metrolinx project just BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING along! You can't stop these guys!

I mean, dont you know they have to do some extremely innovative Quantum Computing and pioneer new concepts for every construction project they undertake?

Completely makes sense to me why construction of stations like this can take upwards of a decade, they're bringing us things which the world has never seen before!

 

[Sauga89]

Metrolinx says platform and station building construction will begin in February, according to two construction notices on Metrolinx's website.

 

[SubHuman]

02 Apr 2026

 

[AntonioDavid1]

So this is projected to be completed September 2026

 

[SubHuman]

So this is projected to be completed September 2026

I think that's extremely unlikely. For most of these projects, it seems some work is done, stopped, then nothing happens again for months.
-View from window of passing GO train of site (former Value Village parking lot at St Helens Ave at Bloor St W).
04 Apr 2026

Dora Ave site

 

[Amare]

So this is projected to be completed September 2026

I think that's extremely unlikely. For most of these projects, it seems some work is done, stopped, then nothing happens again for months.
-View from window of passing GO train of site (former Value Village parking lot at St Helens Ave at Bloor St W).
04 Apr 2026
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Yup, absolute 0% chance of a 2026 completion.

 

[AntonioDavid1]

It’s frustrating other countries put us to shame with how quickly they get work done

 

[ProjectEnd]

cAnAdA iS gOiNg To BuIlD HiGh SpEeD rAiL!

(No we absolutely are not).

 

[Ward8]

cAnAdA iS gOiNg To BuIlD HiGh SpEeD rAiL!

(No we absolutely are not).

To be fair, I think your view here is Toronto/Ontario centric. There are major infrastructure projects in Canada that are done competently. Where alto fits on a scale of Japan to Metrolinx remains to be seen.

 

[Amare]

cAnAdA iS gOiNg To BuIlD HiGh SpEeD rAiL!

(No we absolutely are not).

Agreed, Alto is Pixie Dust pipe dream stuff. But it's nice that people are having hope in it (until the day the bubble finally bursts).

When the day comes where we can finally build basic train stations in less then 5 years from idea conception, that's when i'll believe we'll get infrastructure builds that accommodate electric trains and HSR.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Agreed, Alto is Pixie Dust pipe dream stuff. But it's nice that people are having hope in it (until the day the bubble finally bursts).

When the day comes where we can finally build basic train stations in less then 5 years from idea conception, that's when i'll believe we'll get infrastructure builds that accommodate electric trains and HSR.

What CDPQ has pulled off in Montreal with REM makes me slightly more hopeful that ALTO might actually be possible. What they have done there is the exact opposite of Metrolinx's machinations.. and most of that team is moving to Alto as REM wraps up.

If Metrolinx was in charge of ALTO I would agree entirely that it was as good as fairy dust. With CDPQ behind it, I'm not so quick to jump to that, though still skeptical given the scale of it.

 

[goodcitywhenfinished]

cAnAdA iS gOiNg To BuIlD HiGh SpEeD rAiL!

(No we absolutely are not).

Between SNCF Voyageurs, CDPQ, AtkinsRealis, and Keolis, the number of Anglos involved in the project should be sufficiently minimized to ensure some level of construction activity occurs.