Chris R.
Senior Member
I believe they will be closing Burloak yes and it appears they'll likely have to close Lakeshore West again too again to move the trains back onto the bridge.
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BermudaTO37
Active Member
I asked a Metrolinx employee about this and they said nothing till at least 2025 due to the ongoing construction on the LE line. Happy to be wrong cause the hour commute to end of the line is killing me.
generalcanada
Senior Member
Im not suprised. Wouldnt suprise if 2026 is realistic
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
Geotechnical work about to happen at Oakville GO in advance of the station rebuild (which we have pretty much no information about). See Metrolinx notice.
reinventingthewheel
Active Member
It’s the little details from ML that anger me most. They could have chosen any image of the station but they decided to copy & paste a highly technical one with no legend or description.
With so little information about the station improvements and the oil pipeline highlighted in the image, people will think they’re building tracks through the middle of the parking lot.
reaperexpress
Senior Member
Also they claim that it's part of their work to bring service "every 15 minutes or better"? Clearly the existing infrastructure on Lakeshore West can already support 15-minute or better service given that we currently have 15-minute service on weekends and in 2021 we had 15-minute or better service on weekdays.
"Every 15 minutes or better" is a pretty good slogan for other lines but maybe they should come up with a more ambitious promise for LSW and LSE
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innsertnamehere
Superstar
it's classic Metrolinx comms. A whole army of comms staff to reiterate the same basic lines which provide absolutely 0 details or information beyond what is absolutely required.
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
Some pictures of the West Harbour tie in track work. No new tracks yet but a bunch of Vader signals installed.
just east of the creek
Senior Member
They could probably save themselves some time by walking to the western end of the parking lot and peering over the edge…..still, one of the most underdeveloped sites, with all of that spin-off potential along the western perimeters for density housing with great views and (potential) access to the river valley. Mysteries, mysteries.
Metroscapes
Active Member
Speaking of the Guelph siding, some (non-)progress pictures from today. Retaining wall has been done for a long time, but the ballast and track assemblies still lay piled.
emphurent
Active Member
Small changes further down, but fencing around Kitchener sections of tracks are getting Metrolinx spec fence, not sure if this work is on the contract for the prep work to move Kitchener GO, or last works under the first Breslau track contract. (Also strange those sections got standard chain link fence?)
reaperexpress
Senior Member
Finally they're doing the infrastructure work at West Harbour that Metrolinx claimed they were doing in this video I filmed on the 29th of March 2019:
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SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
Great video, and part of the reason I’m so excited the connection work is finally getting done. Saving 9 to 10 mins each direction is so important.
crs1026
Superstar
At West Harbour, the new trackage and signalling is on property owned by CN. So you can be sure that they only do the work when they are good and ready. The station at West Habour opened in 2015...... unbelievable that it is taking this long, some blame is owed to CN but some to ML.
As for Guelph, the trackage is owned by ML now.... and they take all the blame for the inaction.
But to read ML's releases on social media and to the press - we are celebrating victory.
Ha.
- Paul
As for Guelph, the trackage is owned by ML now.... and they take all the blame for the inaction.
But to read ML's releases on social media and to the press - we are celebrating victory.
Ha.
- Paul
reaperexpress
Senior Member
Yeah my primary complaint about Metrolinx is not that they took a long time to build the connection (we know that CN is also a limiting factor so some of the delay was out of Metrolinx's control).
My complaint is that Metrolinx was lying about construction on the connection. They claimed in 2019 that work was underway on the connection, when in fact that work wouldn't begin until three years later.