Toronto Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

[gweed123]

We'll be getting a peek at the new Eglinton-Yonge Station in the coming weeks, according to Steve Munro.

Please be a Spanish solution for the Yonge line platforms. Avoid creating another Bloor-Yonge. Especially considering Eglinton is an island platform station, adding new platforms on either side is significantly less complex than if it was side platforms.

 

[Johnny Au]

Please be a Spanish solution for the Yonge line platforms. Avoid creating another Bloor-Yonge. Especially considering Eglinton is an island platform station, adding new platforms on either side is significantly less complex than if it was side platforms.

Yes! I would love to see more Spanish solutions in Toronto. There is so much potential to retrofit some stations with it.

 

[Palma]

Are you advocating for parallel bus service to the Eglinton LRT subway from day 1?

Well they have it on spadina since its so close to dufferin which could have eliminated that bus if the subway has actually been built up/down Dufferin. But the past is the past

 

[innsertnamehere]

they don't run on on sheppard do they?..

 

[BurlOak]

Yes! I would love to see more Spanish solutions in Toronto. There is so much potential to retrofit some stations with it.

Eglinton is a major interchange between the Eglinton Crosstown and Yonge. If intelligence prevails, it connects a major east-west line that goes from Malvern to Pearson to the major north-south line.

I want statues of Toros, Matadors, and Picasso art (replica). No Gaudi, we want it finished this century.

 

[innsertnamehere]

I can't tell if that is a joke or not.

regardless, Eglinton is getting redesigned and Metrolinx now has some more money to make sure it is done right, so lets hope. There are currently no spanish solutions in the city, it would be neat to have one.

 

[rdaner]

Where is a good place to find out exactly where the tunneling machines are now?

 

[innsertnamehere]

They aren't very far, the first couple of months of boring is very slow.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Yes insert, slow things are generally boring.

[PUN PUN PUN]

 

[mrxbombastic]

The latest Star article a little while back mentioned the first tbm (Dennis?) Had pretty much reached Keele street so I suspect it has now broken the northern half of the headwall as crews are now driving piles for the southern half of the headwalls in preparation for the second time to pass in the future. It's taken so long cuz engineer + machine and crews must get used to soils and workspace. They also had a prolonged stop to install the conveyor belt systems to haul away the muck.

 

[M II A II R II K]

This is what Eglinton Avenue could look like in 10 years

http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/10/this_is_what_eglinton_avenue_could_look_like_in_10_years/

 

[BurlOak]

This is what Eglinton Avenue could look like in 10 years

http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/10/this_is_what_eglinton_avenue_could_look_like_in_10_years/

I thought they promised that no lanes would be lost to traffic. then I heard that they were removing 2 lanes (the diamond lanes) from Eglinton East. Now this picture shows another through lane being lost.

 

[W. K. Lis]

This is what Eglinton Avenue could look like in 10 years

http://www.blogto.com/city/2013/10/this_is_what_eglinton_avenue_could_look_like_in_10_years/

But "streets are for cars"!! Rob Ford says so!

 

[junctionist]

Notice the overhead wires in the last rendering. At one Crosstown meeting, the planners were hesitant to endorse burying the overhead wires saying that it would push up project costs like on St. Clair. But the difference would be trivial on a $4 billion project as opposed to St. Clair, which was supposed to be a mere $60 million. Also, note the lack of street lights in the renderings. That's an area of public realm improvements where we've cut corners in the past--like on Bloor in Yorkville.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

They probably forgot to add the streetlights. A street with no lights is insane.