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It's not going anywhere, as part of MTO contract 2013-2047, it is undergoing structural rehabilitation, coating and repaving to the tune of 50 million dollars. I wouldn't doubt that the damage done today to the superstructure is comparable to a fender bender. Okay, perhaps not a fender...

By most standards yes, but NYC runs longer trains with the same width on their IND lines; and BMT line trains are the same width, but 30 feet longer than ours. Even the IRT lines run narrower, but longer trains. Trains on IND lines (except for the C and G train) are 600 feet, running either 8...

The final piece of the Transitway has finally gone to tender. The Renforth Hub and Connecting Roadways contract is out to tender and closes on July 31st. Looks like Metrolinx is tagging the price on this project to be about 50 million dollars based on the provided maximum available workload...

The widening of the 410 is getting closer and closer. The bid submissions were opened today, with Aecon Construction & Materials Ltd being the low bidder at 156.7 million dollars. The rest of the bids can be found here: https://www.raqs.merx.com/public/bulletin/contractView.jsf?id=24855601

The Mavis Road interchange is being widened to accommodate the widening of the 401. Construction should be starting any day now on it, Graham Bros is the contractor doing the work. As for the actual widening of the 401, given that the widening of the Mavis overpass wasn't coupled with the...

As far as I know, the 427 project is only adding a single HOV lane in each direction, no additional general purpose lane. The 410 widening project that will also be getting underway this year will feature an additional general purpose lane and the addition of a HOV lane. The Southern Highways...

The bid responses for the widening of the 427 from the 409 to the 407 were opened today. Dufferin Construction was the low bidder at 82.8 million. Hopefully construction will start by mid to late July. http://www.raqs.merx.com/public/bulletin/contractView.jsf?id=24855602

Looks like the widening of the 427 to accommodate HOV lanes between the 409 and 407 has been prioritized. The contract (2014-2016) is out to tender on RAQS and will be closing soon. Tender info can be found here: http://www.raqs.merx.com/public/bulletin/contractView.jsf?id=24855602 Does...

I knew there'd be a day where my first year physical geography course would come in handy! It's not iron per se, but clay that has experienced oxidization (iron oxide) as a result of chemical weathering. It seems to be fairly common on the west side of Mississauga, from the 403 up to Meadowvale.

That's not at all true, the 21, 107 and 109 will all be using the Eastgate Road BRT access that was built as an add on, rather than part of phase 1 works. The ramp is halfway between Dixie and Fieldgate and is for eastbound exit from the BRT and westbound entry to the BRT. The work was done...

The RAQS website posts all the bidders, it's not the short list. Kind of surprised OHL bid on this work, this is really small scale work for them.

The plan has always been for an additional general purpose lane and the addition of a HOV lane in each direction. As mentioned in the document from the Region of Peel I posted. It was also mentioned in the Brampton Guardian a couple of years ago...

While this may come as good news to some, it may also be indicative that the future further widening of the 401 is a couple years off. MTO contract 2014-2006, which is for the reconstruction and widening of the Mavis Road overpass recently closed, with Graham Bros being the low bidder at just...

There is indeed work progressing west of Glen Erin. Dufferin's sub-contractor, Ron Lee Construction, is doing preliminary work just east of Winston Churchill. The same amount of work is being done east of Glen Erin, but by another sub-contractor, Coreydale Contracting. I will head out later...

https://www.raqs.merx.com/public/bulletin/contractView.jsf?id=24855601 This one creeped up out of the blue, although the Region of Peel has been pushing hard to accelerate the timeline for it as outlined here; http://www.peelregion.ca/council/agendas/pdf/rc-20130228/report-pw-b1.pdf. The...

Two weeks ago Mississauga Transit's new general manager started. Patrick Phaneuf was the acting general manager since September when Mickey Frost resigned from the position. I can't remember the guy's name, however he has worked for Brampton Transit and Veolia, whether or not this will represent...

Elevated transit has to be ugly, right? I guess the SkyTrain in Vancouver is real ugly, hence why the areas around SkyTrain stations are booming. Elevated transit lines of our days aren't going to look like the El-Lines in NYC or in Chicago where most of it was built a century ago. Even the...

They may not break even, however their recovery ratio is favorable in comparaison to other GTA agencies. With that being said, with the kind of fares GO has you have to understand that TTC ridership would diminish. Potentially to the point where it has the potential to compromise a higher...

The 31 is only being cancelled on Sundays, not the entire weekend. Also, the stops are being shifted around at the Westwood Mall Terminal come January 30th, the 107 will now stop where the 16 stops. The 7 will now stop where the 42 stops. The 11, 11A and 11B will no longer have seperate...

I don't see how your 38A suggestion would take riders off of the 19, or more than a few for that matter. I find it incredibly ironic that you would want to route the 38 to the subway via a route with little density and that would duplicate existing route 3 service. Seeing that you're the one...