[ScreamingViking]

Hmm. How many of those are there? Where did they go to? They aren't for baggage processing?

I believe there are still some in use for baggage on the platforms VIA uses. There are at least a couple that are boarded up on the GO platforms. I have no photo proof, just going by what I think I've seen since reading the posts about them (so I could be completely wrong and maybe it's just the one).

 

[PShells]

https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/Documents/Metrolinx/2026.04.14_USRCE_CLC_Slide_Presentation_FINAL.pdf

Additionally, it's nice to see the project roadmap that was previously presented at the prior two board meetings being used in lower-level presentations.

I found the CLC update informative even as someone who boards a GO train on Platform 21 daily and has been able to watch the project progress.

 

[mburrrrr]

Construction trailer update.
@WB62 posted in the Union Station thread that the new platform entrance at Yonge St. will be installed before the rail tracks are installed.

 

[mburrrrr]

Track laying is still quite far away, the trailers are being moved to make way for more excavation work:

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Yep! This was recently added to the project and was the reason why I asked Northern Light when AIC documents are updated, fingers crossed we get 3d perspectives or blueprints soon.

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@WB62 image taken from post above.

 

[Civdis]

So am I to understand there will be some kind of a pedestrian tunnel/concourse under Yonge Street?

 

[reinventingthewheel]

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Wait a second, did you just catch the elusive @kotsy in the act??

 

[mburrrrr]

I can’t imagine why these switches ever fail and cause delays.

 

[generalcanada]

I can’t imagine why these switches ever fail and cause delays.
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I remember awhile ago sometime around 2020 when MX showed off the cherry switchhouse. had like super old manual levers moving switches. Is that still in place?
Otherwise interesting picture

 

[smallspy]

I can’t imagine why these switches ever fail and cause delays.
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The funny or scary thing - what is going in in the motors is only half of the whole event.

There is even more adjustment built into each switch itself that needs to be kept aligned and maintained. Switch points run on guides that maintain their height, throw bars need to be kept tight and aligned, diamond noses need to have material built back up and maintained, hundreds of restraining bolts need to be monitored, restraining rails need to be kept in gauge, wire bonds verified for integrity, linkage checked for movement and slop, etc.

There's a reason why the railroads only put in exactly as many switches as they think they need, and remove ones they think that they don't. Maintaining each one is a full-time operation.

Dan

 

[DSCToronto]

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I was on the CIBC Park yesterday, no photo, but they seem to be almost ready to pour another layer of concrete so that 'the hole' to the west will soon be level with the crane base. I think there is only one more level/pour after this (once they finish the pillars). BTW, one can now walk from one CIBC tower to the other across the roof - it is not all open but there is a permitted (and fenced) pathway. Looking good and they were busy planting.

Photo posted at https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...zation-m-s-city-of-toronto-norr.4308/page-862 by @Civdis

 

[mburrrrr]

Friday

 

[PShells]

Metrolinx posted an example of the stairs from the south concourse to platforms. They’re a significant upgrade to what we have now.

 

[nfitz]

A real transit agency would be putting in escalators.

 

[APTA-2048]

A lack of escalators really sucks for people with limited mobility because many people who cannot walk up stairs, but can stand on an escalator have to use the elevator which takes away space for people who cannot use stairs or escalators.

 

[taylortbb]

I wonder if the lack of escalators relates to rules around protecting for future level boarding. It's fairly easy to design a staircase to be extended (and GO stations are required to do so), but you can't easily extend an escalator.