[smallspy]

Hm, I also recall that a year or two ago a lot of the planned summer Line 1 shutdowns to accommodate ECLRT construction were suddenly canceled. I wonder if that was at all related to them deciding to push back the underpinning work.

Those delays - summer of 2018, if I recall correctly - were due to TTC's scheduling and a then-ongoing labour dispute between drivers and the Commission. They managed to get cleared up with the TTC and Metrolinx sat down and worked out a new schedule of closures that would allow the TTC to schedule the drivers into regular work pieces, rather than overtime. To the best of my knowledge, they've managed to account for every cancelled closure by now.

Several stations other than those you mentioned will be at 90 percent complete by the end of next year like Kennedy and Science center. A lot of the mined stations will see significant completion

I wish I could be as optimistic about this as you are. From what I've seen of the progress at a number of the central and eastern stations, I doubt that they will be anywhere near that level of completion in one calendar year.

Dan

 

[robmausser]

^Meh I blame it more on Tory who put his hands up and offered to take Eglinton West off of Metrolinx's hands. Had he not done that, it still would have been on the province's books albeit just deferred indefinitely.

Well its back on the provincial books anyways now so its a moot point.

 

[salsa]

 

[crs1026]

I wish I could be as optimistic about this as you are. From what I've seen of the progress at a number of the central and eastern stations, I doubt that they will be anywhere near that level of completion in one calendar year.

There are places west of Yonge where the visible construction activity this week involved loading dump trucks with freshly excavated material. If they are still digging in spots, we are some time away from closing up those holes.
Things are coming along, to be sure, especially east of Brentcliffe where there is a huge amount of concrete being poured as we speak. It's actually beginning to look like a continuous surface LRT out that way!
But clearly there are "weak links" in the overall completion.

- Paul

 

[raptor]

RFP-2019-PMUN-124Supply,Delivery,Install,Commissioning-PRESTO Machines,Hosting

This Request for Proposal is to solicit the provision of Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of PRESTO Single Ride Vending Machines and Hosting Services through an open, fair and competitive process.

The Eglinton Crosstown project will provide a new mid-town Light Rail Transit (LRT) link for the city of Toronto and is scheduled to open in September 2021. PRESTO has a need to procure Single Ride Vending Machine (SRVM) to support the upcoming Eglinton Crosstown LRT line. The line includes 25 stops, of which 10 are at grade and 15 are underground. The line will support a Proof of Payment (POP) system with all sales and validation equipment residing off-board the vehicles. Eglinton Crosstown is scheduled to pilot in June, 2021 and go live to the public in September, 2021.

The requirements for the Supply, Delivery, Installation, and Commissioning of PRESTO Single Ride Vending Machines and Hosting Services more particularly described in Appendix “B” -Scope of Services of this RFP.

The provision of the Services is for five (5) years and with an additional two (2) periods of extension options of two (2) years at Metrolinx’s sole discretion. Metrolinx intends to award the Contract to one Vendor.

 

[Allandale25]

Another video posted and some timelines for construction are noted.

 

[Steve X]

RFP-2019-PMUN-124Supply,Delivery,Install,Commissioning-PRESTO Machines,Hosting

This Request for Proposal is to solicit the provision of Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of PRESTO Single Ride Vending Machines and Hosting Services through an open, fair and competitive process.

The Eglinton Crosstown project will provide a new mid-town Light Rail Transit (LRT) link for the city of Toronto and is scheduled to open in September 2021. PRESTO has a need to procure Single Ride Vending Machine (SRVM) to support the upcoming Eglinton Crosstown LRT line. The line includes 25 stops, of which 10 are at grade and 15 are underground. The line will support a Proof of Payment (POP) system with all sales and validation equipment residing off-board the vehicles. Eglinton Crosstown is scheduled to pilot in June, 2021 and go live to the public in September, 2021.

The requirements for the Supply, Delivery, Installation, and Commissioning of PRESTO Single Ride Vending Machines and Hosting Services more particularly described in Appendix “B” -Scope of Services of this RFP.

The provision of the Services is for five (5) years and with an additional two (2) periods of extension options of two (2) years at Metrolinx’s sole discretion. Metrolinx intends to award the Contract to one Vendor.

Let's hope they actually make a bigger bin that will hold change for more than a week and not be easily prone to thief.

I wonder what amazing miracle ML will pull to expect the line to open in 2021.

 

[Streety McCarface]

From blogTO, I know, but the seating arrangement still sucks:

Toronto really hates those seats that face each other on the new TTC streetcars

With the very last of Toronto's old CLRV streetcars set to be retired at the end of this month, the city is moving into a new era of public transit —…

www.blogto.com

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

From blogTO, I know, but the seating arrangement still sucks:

Toronto really hates those seats that face each other on the new TTC streetcars

With the very last of Toronto's old CLRV streetcars set to be retired at the end of this month, the city is moving into a new era of public transit —…

www.blogto.com

Might be the one time I agree with the yuppies and millennials at BlogTO, but for sure! The seating arrangement on the Flexities is not good! I know it's because the equipment below the seats but like, the anti-social in you will hate it...

 

[Streety McCarface]

Might be the one time I agree with the yuppies and millennials at BlogTO, but for sure! The seating arrangement on the Flexities is not good! I know it's because the equipment below the seats but like, the anti-social in you will hate it...

They could sacrifice 6 seats on the entire LRV and rearrange them in a way where there are 3 inward-facing seats.

Similar to an artic, but with 3 seats instead of 2.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Woah, an automated system drives the trains in the yard, until the TTC operator takes over? That's basically Tesla's summons mode for a train. That is so cool

 

[Coolstar]

Woah, an automated system drives the trains in the yard, until the TTC operator takes over? That's basically Tesla's summons mode for a train. That is so cool

In fact an automated system will be used from Mount Dennis to Laird with drivers in the cab monitoring. It's like a GOA2 system. Then drivers take over and drive the trains at Laird to Kennedy. Opposite way around westward.

 

[robmausser]

In fact an automated system will be used from Mount Dennis to Laird with drivers in the cab monitoring. It's like a GOA2 system. Then drivers take over and drive the trains at Laird to Kennedy. Opposite way around westward.

You mean operators take over at the large bunching of lrts at Laird.

Cant wait to watch this clusterf%&k unfold.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

You mean operators take over at the large bunching of lrts at Laird.

Cant wait to watch this clusterf%&k unfold.

The operators should already be onboard the trains.

 

[Kyle Campbell]

Might be the one time I agree with the yuppies and millennials at BlogTO, but for sure! The seating arrangement on the Flexities is not good! I know it's because the equipment below the seats but like, the anti-social in you will hate it...

Since the Citadis has the same 4 person arrangement, I expected lots of complaining here with ours, but people seem fine with it. I swear the Citadis has slightly more leg room in the pod, but until they start running on Finch it's hard to do a side by side comparison.