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Union Station Rail Corridor Improvements

raptor said:
SQ-2017-CUS-016 Construction of Union Station Railway Corridor W Track Enh.

Request For Pre-Qualifications

Pre-Qualification No. SQ-2017-CUS-016

Prequalification for Construction of Union Station Railway Corridor – West Track Enhancement

Metrolinx is issuing this Request to be Prequalified to establish a Prequalified List of Contractors to carry out the construction of the Union Station Railway Corridor – West Track Enhancement through an open, fair and competitive process

The objective of this Request to be Prequalified (Stage 1) is to develop a Prequalified List of Contractors (including their named Subcontractors, and Key Personnel), with the necessary experience, qualifications and resource availability to provide the Work to be issued via the Stage 2 invitational procurement process for Union Station Railway Corridor – West Track Enhancement.

Pre-qualification Submissions will be accepted until the Closing of 3:00 p.m., Thursday November 2, 2017, via Metrolinx Merx Electronic Bid Submission (EBS) and will be opened by Metrolinx staff as soon as is practicable after the designated Closing.

Pre-qualification documents are available online at www.metrolinx.merx.com, Merx Reference Number,

Only those Proponents that Metrolinx has determined, in its sole discretion based on the Evaluation Criteria stated herein, to be qualified will be added to the Metrolinx Prequalified List of Contractors for the Work.


For more information on this opportunity, please click on the following link:
https://www.metrolinx.merx.com/public/solicitations/540024603/abstract?language=EN
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@rbt you said documents are all track and signalling related, is it just renewing existing, or are there re-alignments?
 
Logging into a registered MERX account (free account, but you have to pay $40 to download documents as a bidder), shows about two dozen documents whose filenames suggest a variety of tasks to be done to the USRC.

Looks like it's practically an overhaul at least in parts!
Not sure if it's just new tracks or all the existing ones.

Concrete ties, new track materials, track ballast, track subballast, track construction, track closure (a request for a phasing plan, probably), wayside stuff, track circuits, relays, rail bonding, signals, etc.

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While ultimately necessary to double train throughput through Union over the coming years -- it is going to be some fun scheduling train service around this construction. At least the platform reconstruction will be complete within Union, and all tracks probably open, for improved operational flexibility to compensate.
 

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Crosspost from Lower Yonge Precinct Plan thread.

Allandale25 said:
Public meeting:
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Good morning,


The City of Toronto is requesting that the Toronto and East York Community Council amend the Official Plan to protect the lands required for the Cooper Street Extension (also known as the Copper Street Tunnel) from Lake Shore Boulevard to The Esplanade, underneath the Metrolinx Union Station Rail Corridor and for the property at 55, 75, 85 The Esplanade and 1, 2 Church Street. For further information regarding the public meeting, please refer to the attached Notice of Public Meeting.


NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

Request to Amend the Official Plan Application

No. 17 180165 STE 28 OZ

Location of Application: 55, 75, 85THE ESPLANADE AND 1, 2 CHURCH STREET

Applicant: City of Toronto

DATE: Tuesday, November 14, 2017

TIME: 10:00 a.m. or as soon as possible thereafter

PLACE: Committee Room 1, 2nd Floor, City Hall, 100 Queen Street West


PURPOSE OF PUBLIC MEETING


Toronto and East York Community Council will receive input and review the proposal and any other material placed before it, in order to make recommendations on the application. These recommendations will then be forwarded to Toronto City Council for its consideration. You are invited to attend the public meeting to make your views known regarding the proposal. You may also submit written comments. If you wish to address the Toronto and East York Community Council in person or in writing, please contact:

City Clerk, Attention: Ellen Devlin, Administrator, Toronto and East York Community Council, 100 Queen Street West, 2nd Floor West, Toronto ON M5H 2N2, Phone: 416- 392-7033, Fax: 416-397-0111, e-mail: teycc@toronto.ca.


To assist with scheduling, you are requested to call the City Clerk’s Office by 12 noon on November 13, 2017, if you plan to make comments at the meeting.


Special Assistance: City Staff can arrange for special assistance with some advance notice. If you need special assistance, please call 416-392-7033,TTY 416-338-0889 or e-mail teycc@toronto.ca.


Detailed information regarding the proposal, including background information and material and a copy of the proposed Official Plan Amendment may be obtained by contacting Anthony Kittel, Project Manager at 416-392-0758, or by e-mail at Anthony.Kittel@toronto.ca.

Lisa McDonald

Support Assistant

City Planning, City Hall

100 Queen Street W.

18th Floor (East Tower)

Toronto, ON M5H 2N2

416-392-7217
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Lots of info in the document linked to above. The residents along the tracks are NOT happy - noise, vibration, aesthetics of the 'acoustical wall'. In some places the new track goes very close to their homes.
 
Guess we better cancel RER, some neighbours are angry.

Seriously, Metrolinx seems to be doing a pretty good job of making any improvements to the scheme that they realistically can without compromising the project goals. The vast majority of projects like this would see standard concrete block retaining walls without any fenestration. They are proposing to use art walls with expensive materials improving aesthetics, etc.
 
innsertnamehere said:
Guess we better cancel RER, some neighbours are angry.

Seriously, Metrolinx seems to be doing a pretty good job of making any improvements to the scheme that they realistically can without compromising the project goals. The vast majority of projects like this would see standard concrete block retaining walls without any fenestration. They are proposing to use art walls with expensive materials improving aesthetics, etc.
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Yes and they are doing this, at least partly, because people who have homes beside the track complained. I am not (and most neighbours are not) suggesting that we cancel RER - though if the Conservatives win the June election it may well never happen.
 
innsertnamehere said:
Guess we better cancel RER, some neighbours are angry.

Seriously, Metrolinx seems to be doing a pretty good job of making any improvements to the scheme that they realistically can without compromising the project goals. The vast majority of projects like this would see standard concrete block retaining walls without any fenestration. They are proposing to use art walls with expensive materials improving aesthetics, etc.
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There's no suggestion by Metrolinx that making the walls and landscaping better is going to slow down RER implementation.
 
DSC said:
Lots of info in the document linked to above. The residents along the tracks are NOT happy - noise, vibration, aesthetics of the 'acoustical wall'. In some places the new track goes very close to their homes.
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Part of me say 'too bad, you live by the bloody USRC for crying out loud.' But another part of me is baffled with Track E0 and I do not see the need for it or the impacts it will have. Why exactly is a 3rd track from the Richmond Hill line required? If you need capacity for staging/layover within the USRC, why isn't Metrolinx expanding further south?
 
dowlingm said:
Can anyone tell me why I should not be concerned that Cherry Tower is moving, the bridge being extended and now a retaining wall is going in but we still have no plan to extend the Cherry Streetcar ROW?
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Of course, this would be the time to at least widen the bridge for the streetcar even if it won't use the space for a decade but that kind of linkage of projects only happens in other places!
 
DSC said:
Of course, this would be the time to at least widen the bridge for the streetcar even if it won't use the space for a decade but that kind of linkage of projects only happens in other places!
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I get that the Gardiner rebuild means the Cherry-LSBE-QQE rework is still in flux but we are in serious danger of seeing the cost of this go way way up - especially when now Cherry Tower is moving anyway and won't be directly/wholly on the City's dime.
 
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