Bordercollie
Senior Member
So they filled it, compacted it just to dig it up again to build the tunnel?
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GO Transit: Union Station Shed Replacement & Track Upgrades (Zeidler)
cplchanb
Senior Member
epitome of inefficiency. another example of why we are one of the worst in the world when it comes to productivity
mburrrrr
Senior Member
Pictures from today.
cplchanb
Senior Member
really just a massive shame they never extended the glass box all the way to both ends. It just makes the whole thing look incomplete and cheap, especially now that they ditched the green roof as well.
TossYourJacket
Senior Member
Seriously. If they wanted to save some of the train shed, it should have been relocated to somewhere else, either another less used station (ideally one with a heritage station building to go with it), or a museum.
Willybru21
Active Member
The roundhouse museum is right there (obviously not all of it should go there but a small portion could). Besides that if they couldn’t find anywhere to put the rest of it, then it should just be scrapped… it isn’t that worthy of full preservation
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mburrrrr
Senior Member
Widening the rail bridges at Lower Jarvis and Lower Sherbourne Streets.
I thought they were adding a crane base but obviously this is the embankment for the bridge extension. I thought I read something about a crane. I guess to a lift (from above, below or beside will be required at some time.
Today Jarvis St.
The pictures below are from March 1 & 2
I thought they were adding a crane base but obviously this is the embankment for the bridge extension. I thought I read something about a crane. I guess to a lift (from above, below or beside will be required at some time.
Today Jarvis St.
The pictures below are from March 1 & 2
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EnviroTO
Senior Member
I'm one of the few people on here that is pro-train-shed preservation, but without the green roof and proper interior accent lighting the project gets low marks in my books.
micheal_can
Senior Member
How can you do a green roof on the shed without taking away its historic look? It would be akin to taking a steam locomotive and running it on overhead wires.
Willybru21
Active Member
We all want European infrastructure here in Canada, why not Swiss steam engines too:
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
Those wer appretly a disater. They were used during a coal shortage in switzzerland but they wern't very efectoen sop they all ened up being scrapped.
micheal_can
Senior Member
I really want to argue that it isn't what I meant, but sadly, it's exactly what I meant.
Now, with the train shed roof, if we just leave it, eventually moss will grow on it. Is that green enough?
mburrrrr
Senior Member
June 3
mburrrrr
Senior Member
I didn’t know where to post this.
Assuming this is related to the track rework and moving the high voltage and communication and track control feeds.
Parliment street bridge north of the tracks.
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Willybru21
Active Member
I noticed in the video Metrolinx made about the VR system that OnXpress is using, you can see both the new elevated pedestrian bridges connecting all the platforms being extended outside of the shed.
The west bridge seems to come out above what will eventually be the former UP Express terminal in the Skywalk.
The east bridge seems to come out of the east side of CIBC Square Phase II, and span across with a Yonge Street entrance on the south side.
The west bridge seems to come out above what will eventually be the former UP Express terminal in the Skywalk.
The east bridge seems to come out of the east side of CIBC Square Phase II, and span across with a Yonge Street entrance on the south side.