Toronto East Harbour GO & Ontario Line Station | 14.35m | 1s | Metrolinx | HDR

[StreetcarRider]

Exactly what I thought they were going to do. The GO bridge over the Broadview extension was already built.

They had their gates opened this morning, so I got a really good view of it.

Facing south from Boradview...

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It looks like, maybe, the Ontario Line side of it still needs to be poured? Not sure though.

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Great pics! I've also visited the area and taken a peek through the open gates, and it seemed to me as if these bridges were not very high off the ground, compared to how high the new bridges at Eastern, Dundas and Logan are. Did you have the same impression? Maybe the Broadview extension will slope downwards a bit?

Regarding the bridges, I believe the bridges for the three northernmost GO tracks are in place. You can see where the two GO platforms will eventually be. There are bridges for the tracks around the northernmost platform and the track that will be on the north side of the southernmost platform. The southernmost GO track at the southernmost platform will be located somewhere around where the current active rails are. Those tracks, and the necessary bridge, will probably be built once some of the new tracks are activated and the current active tracks are removed.

The bridge for the Ontario Line has also not been built yet, probably because, based on the renders, the station building will incorporate the bridge.

 

[TorontoPotential]

Great pics! I've also visited the area and taken a peek through the open gates, and it seemed to me as if these bridges were not very high off the ground, compared to how high the new bridges at Eastern, Dundas and Logan are. Did you have the same impression? Maybe the Broadview extension will slope downwards a bit?

Regarding the bridges, I believe the bridges for the three northernmost GO tracks are in place. You can see where the two GO platforms will eventually be. There are bridges for the tracks around the northernmost platform and the track that will be on the north side of the southernmost platform. The southernmost GO track at the southernmost platform will be located somewhere around where the current active rails are. Those tracks, and the necessary bridge, will probably be built once some of the new tracks are activated and the current active tracks are removed.

The bridge for the Ontario Line has also not been built yet, probably because, based on the renders, the station building will incorporate the bridge.

Agree and wondering if there’ll be a dip in the broadview extension so that trucks that crash into the top of these new bridges. That said a dip in a low lying flood prone area seems like a silly engineering decision but we shall see!

 

[christiesplits]

Toronto Star article on the possibility of the Alto HSR using East Harbour at their Toronto station.

Excerpt (paywall):

Union Station may seem like the clear-cut choice to be Toronto’s high-speed rail stop, but there are drawbacks.

“I don’t think it’s a slam dunk,” said Eric Miller, a civil engineering professor at U of T who specializes in integrated land use and transport modelling.

Miller pointed out how crowded that century-old terminal already is. “Despite the refurbishing that’s been going on for a long time down there, there is a finite capacity of trains you could put through there.”

Miller suggested the East Harbour Transit Hub, part of a huge mixed-use development under construction near the Don River and Lake Shore Boulevard, could be another potential option. That station on the eastern edge of downtown would be a much-needed alternative to Union and would allow for transfers to the Ontario Line and the GO network, he added.

Why Union Station may not be a stop on Canada’s new high-speed rail line

Some of the biggest questions surrounding Canada’s proposed high-speed passenger rail line remain unanswered.

www.thestar.com

 

[mburrrrr]

Yesterday

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

*Debating to myself whether those supports are temporary or not*

 

[JoeSchmo]

I feel like I'm loosing my mind here. I can't for the life of me find up-to-date interior renders of the station. Anyone know where/which ones are the "current" renders? Also will east habour have that cool giant sign-criss-cross thingy from the 2023 renders or was that value-engineered out too?

 

[urbancog]

Debating to myself whether those supports are temporary or not

The dark grey supports are definitely temporary. The final bridge will only have the network of tensioned wires.

There's an example of this network arch bridge here for the Orsdall Cord between Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Victoria stations.

@Westey provided an interesting post on options for the bridge over on the Ontario Line thread

 

[GameOnBrad]

I don't think the south half of the GO tracks is a bridge. ie, there are no openings for the future Broadview extension. See kotsy's pics here:

East Harbour GO & Ontario Line Station | 14.35m | 1s | Metrolinx | HDR

How I wish this station had ended up like Bijlmer station in Amsterdam: https://grimshaw.global/projects/rail-and-mass-transit/bijlmer-arena-station/ Sure but you have to care about transit and believe in public transportation as something that helps shape society for the better, not merely...

urbantoronto.ca

Those photos are much older, as you can see the tire shop still there. You can see the bridge here in Kotsy's photos. I think it's the 4th photo down

East Harbour GO & Ontario Line Station | 14.35m | 1s | Metrolinx | HDR

Ys, it DOES look like a platform canopy but from the drone shot it seems VERY odd to me to be building the canopy before you build the platform. Also why would a canopy need such deep foundations?? Order of operations does seem bizarre, I imagine the roof structure will just get in the way...

urbantoronto.ca

 

[cryogen]

Those photos are much older, as you can see the tire shop still there. You can see the bridge here in Kotsy's photos. I think it's the 4th photo down

East Harbour GO & Ontario Line Station | 14.35m | 1s | Metrolinx | HDR

Ys, it DOES look like a platform canopy but from the drone shot it seems VERY odd to me to be building the canopy before you build the platform. Also why would a canopy need such deep foundations?? Order of operations does seem bizarre, I imagine the roof structure will just get in the way...

urbantoronto.ca

The 4th photo shows the north half of the tracks are on a bridge, but the south half is not.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

The dark grey supports are definitely temporary. The final bridge will only have the network of tensioned wires.

There's an example of this network arch bridge here for the Orsdall Cord between Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Victoria stations.

@Westey provided an interesting post on options for the bridge over on the Ontario Line thread

...it's weird to think the cables are pulling the supports to earth along with gravity as opposed to propping them up against the gravity. But that's probably looking at it all wrong that way. Where as, the cable are really dangling the bridge over a gap while the supports are there for said cables to hang on to...and where the strength of this set is from curvature of the supports, to my limited understanding this.