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When the original alignment is poor, yes, reusing it would not be a good idea. Why are you viewing this as only being about connecting STC? Don't you want a transit project that services as much of the community as possible? If you wanted a glorified STC shuttle, buy a bunch of second hand MCIs off of GO and you'll get it for much cheaper.
 
Reecemartin said:
If you will have stations at A and B, and only A and B, the route you take to get there being "transit unfriendly" is irrelevant.
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While the idea of having the extension go from Kennedy to STC without a single stop in between may have come up, I highly doubt it was ever taken seriously.

Also the SSE doesn't follow the exact alignment as the SRT, it'll go up McCowan while the SRT was halfway between Kennedy & Midland.
 
81-717 said:
While the idea of having the extension go from Kennedy to STC without a single stop in between may have come up, I highly doubt it was ever taken seriously.
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It was literally the preferred plan for. . . . years?! They had a full design for at least the bus terminal at STC drawn up . . .

81-717 said:
Also the SSE doesn't follow the exact alignment as the SRT, it'll go up McCowan while the SRT was halfway between Kennedy & Midland.
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I ask this sincerely, do you really think I am unaware that the SSE route and SRT route are not the same. I've literally probably made 20 videos on this topic . . .
 
Reecemartin said:
I ask this sincerely, do you really think I am unaware that the SSE route and SRT route are not the same. I've literally probably made 20 videos on this topic . . .
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I have no idea what you are or aren't aware of, nor do I have the time to go through every single one of your videos (and I went through several, don't get me wrong), my point was mainly in response to T3G, merely pointing out that the SSE alignment doesn't necessarily have the same flaws as the SRT alignment:
T3G said:
The Scarborough Subway is an overbuilt mistake, but the chosen SRT alignment was also a mistake. There's a reason none of the stations except for Kennedy and STC posted very high ridership numbers - because the rest of them served mainly industrial lots. I see no reason why we should have wanted to keep it.
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Bad management and accountability via Metrolinx are the problem! Cost overruns would have happened with whatever plan was chosen! You can’t blame Metrolinx for charging double when there’s no public outrage.
 
NIV said:
Bad management and accountability via Metrolinx are the problem! Cost overruns would have happened with whatever plan was chosen! You can’t blame Metrolinx for charging double when there’s no public outrage.
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You can blame them (efficient project delivery is surely within their mandate), you probably can't be surprised though.
 
Maybe the SRT ROW can be turned into a pedestrian bridge between STC and the subway stop? It appears to be in good shape. We can add (God forbid).... moving walkways!

But no chance Metrolinx would ever spend that much on pedestrians.
 
NIV said:
The Star is great at FOI requests. Would be nice to know why the soil conditions missed? The core samples were drilled before Strabag was given the tunneling contract. The deep single bore TBM design was envisioned and designed when this was just a one stop extension. The 3 stop design used much of the original engineering to speed up the process. Who’s responsible??
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Well think about it in this way.

You have a 12m large Maschine that diggs 20-30m underground surrounded by groundwater. This kind of Machines normally works in groundwater conditions (under pressure), to avoid water entering the Maschine.

If anything breaks underground, it is a challenge to fix it. If it is on the Maschine (atmospheric pressure), you are lucky. If it is in front of the cutting head or anywhere that is in the area under pressure, good luck!

Now my assumption, if the ground conditions do not allow you to work under pressure, that’s where you start to get creative and maybe that’s the challenge which they are facing.
 
How active was the TBM site over the last month? I know they had bursts of insane digging followed by pauses to make maintenance stops in the past.
Was it still the same pattern recently?
In the Mx board meeting they also said that the TBM will be making its first full service stop around triton road, which I assume it should be making around now.
 
Allandale25 said:
Video posted by Metrolinx today. It's on X. Not sure if it'll be on other platforms. In a rush so not sure if any new information is in this cc @Northern Light

https://twitter.com/x/status/1945495648565870710
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No new info as such, but I will extract a few images:

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Source: Metrolinx Video linked in post above.
 
so thats 400m in 1 month. about 13m per day.
Not bad actually. still could be another full year before it hits eglinton.
if they keep it up, it wont be done till at least 2027
 
generalcanada said:
so thats 400m in 1 month. about 13m per day.
Not bad actually. still could be another full year before it hits eglinton.
if they keep it up, it wont be done till at least 2027
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If you measure the distance on google maps, 1.9km lines up to be around where they were digging the underground support structure near Freshco, meaning it will probably stop there for a while to make repairs (since that it the designated repair spot).
 
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