Toronto Crosstown LRT: Eglinton Station | ?m | 1s | Metrolinx | Arcadis
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I'm never up here, but what a mess. I'm sure everyone dealing with this on a daily basis will be very relieved when it's all cleaned up.
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Honestly, I think either side of Eglinton West is worse. Way more traffic congestion, and way more jaywalkers.
innsertnamehere
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The whole stretch is really ugly. We are also right in the middle of the worst disruption now with the regular subway closures, extensive road closures, etc. By this time next year things should start to improve as construction shifts underground.
W. K. Lis
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The main disruption is at the station boxes. Don't forget that tunnels were dug using boring machines, mostly the stations would be cut-and-cover or mined. Eglinton & Yonge has to be cut-and-cover.
EastYorkTTCFan
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Plus they are also mining under the existing subway line and also extending the existing subway platform north as well.
kotsy
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I love seeing the photos of the site because it's so large scale. Sure, it's a gigantic mess, but the bigger the mess, the more impressed I am of how much work is being done at this one location.
It hits home that much further that this Eglinton line is finally materializing as well.
It hits home that much further that this Eglinton line is finally materializing as well.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Final Design from the Mar 20 TTC Board Meeting:
Also from p. 4 of the report:
http://www.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Com...wn_LRT_Interchange_Stations_Final_Designs.pdf
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Also from p. 4 of the report:
http://www.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Com...wn_LRT_Interchange_Stations_Final_Designs.pdf
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I hope that new ECLRT main entrance is designed to allow something big above and around it.
AlvinofDiaspar
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I wish the design can accommodate a complete redesign of the concourse should 2210 Yonge comes down.
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innsertnamehere
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So if you are coming from E condos or the Yonge Eglinton centre you have to go down an escalator to the "upper ECLRT concourse", back up another escalator, then down another to the subway platform? Seems like a waste, you think they could have provided some sort of through connection to prevent the unnecessary 2 levels of escalator riding. Reminds me of Dundas station, how you have to go down and up again if you want to get to the other side of the street indoors. Often you just don't bother - you just go to surface level and cross the street there.
ChesterCopperpot
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Likewise at Queen
innsertnamehere
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The big difference is here it is completely avoidable.. The connection existing before the construction of the ECLRT.
whatever
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Maybe I'm reading the subway concourse plan incorrectly, but it looks to me like you can get from E Condos and the Yonge/Eg centre to the subway concourse without going down to the LRT concourse. It looks like there are ramps and stairs connecting those two basements into the unpaid area of the subway concourse.
WillTo
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What's the single Diamond Lane on the middle of Eglinton for?