[Tunafish13]

Just a few pictures of the fencing they are putting in at pharmacy.

It looks like they are using the same yellow strips as the subway for the platform edge's

 

[Richard White]

Some of these intersections are going to be problematic.

Birchmount and Eglinton has a gigantic hump where the track has been raised up through the intersection. If your car is too low and you are going too fast you will destroy the front of your car. We have a mazda 3 and have clearance issues driving over it.

Come the winter, snow plows are going to have a hard time plowing north/south streets through intersections with eglinton because in most cases the trackbed through intersection is higher than the north/south roads. I am fully expecting accidents or other issues this year at Birchmount and Eglinton.

My father jokes that if he gets up enough speed in his Dodge Magnum (it has about 560 HP) he could get airborne ala Ferris Bueller at that intersection.

 

[drum118]

The yellow strip edge for subway stations is now been found every where where vehicles of all type stops.

GO Transit Platforms, streetcar stops with platforms and bus stops have the yellow strip these days. As bus stops get rebuilt or added, yellow strip are being added. It starting to happen to other systems as well.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Birchmount and Eglinton has a gigantic hump where the track has been raised up through the intersection. If your car is too low and you are going too fast you will destroy the front of your car. We have a mazda 3 and have clearance issues driving over it.

Crazy. An unmodified Mazda3 isn't low by any standard. This will (should) be rectified.

 

[H4F33Z]

Some of these intersections are going to be problematic.

Birchmount and Eglinton has a gigantic hump where the track has been raised up through the intersection. If your car is too low and you are going too fast you will destroy the front of your car. We have a mazda 3 and have clearance issues driving over it.

Come the winter, snow plows are going to have a hard time plowing north/south streets through intersections with eglinton because in most cases the trackbed through intersection is higher than the north/south roads. I am fully expecting accidents or other issues this year at Birchmount and Eglinton.

My father jokes that if he gets up enough speed in his Dodge Magnum (it has about 560 HP) he could get airborne ala Ferris Bueller at that intersection.

it's very unlikely there will be clearance issues unless you're driving a really really low car, and you're driving really fast, in that case that's your fault. Left turns have been banned on eglinton at birchmount due to these raised tracks and space limits. This seems to only be a birchmount issue. other streets on eglinton do not have these raised tracks and are level.

 

[Richard White]

Crazy. An unmodified Mazda3 isn't low by any standard. This will (should) be rectified.

It's quite low. Trust me on that, ours is a 2013 and it bottoms out on everything.

Going through a green light you can hear it go over the hump and it ain't pretty.

 

[Richard White]

it's very unlikely there will be clearance issues unless you're driving a really really low car, and you're driving really fast, in that case that's your fault. Left turns have been banned on eglinton at birchmount due to these raised tracks and space limits. This seems to only be a birchmount issue. other streets on eglinton do not have these raised tracks and are level.

They raised the road quite substantially here. The Bus Stop had to be relocated because after the tracks went in, the SE corner had a steep incline that didn't exist before.

You can visibly see how much higher the tracks are than the road. It's like they laid the tracks ontop of the road here and paved around them

 

[Amare]

@Richard White isnt exaggerating here, the trackbed is raised very high at the Birchmount and I have no idea what the rational is for it. It's to the point where I even worry about the axles of heavy duty trucks and buses which literally mount the intersection.

I havent been to the area in a while, so its news to me that they relocated the SE bus stop on Birchmount. I have no idea why the didnt grade the entire southern approach of the intersection higher when the were reconstructing the intersection.

 

[Richard White]

@Richard White isnt exaggerating here, the trackbed is raised very high at the Birchmount and I have no idea what the rational is for it. It's to the point where I even worry about the axles of heavy duty trucks and buses which literally mount the intersection.

I havent been to the area in a while, so its news to me that they relocated the SE bus stop on Birchmount. I have no idea why the didnt grade the entire southern approach of the intersection higher when the were reconstructing the intersection.

It's temporarily relocated because currently you can't access a bus from the original stop with climbing up a slope and in. Far from being wheelchair accessible and even for someone able bodied like myself it's unsafe.

 

[Voltz]

Some of these intersections are going to be problematic.

Birchmount and Eglinton has a gigantic hump where the track has been raised up through the intersection. If your car is too low and you are going too fast you will destroy the front of your car. We have a mazda 3 and have clearance issues driving over it.

Come the winter, snow plows are going to have a hard time plowing north/south streets through intersections with eglinton because in most cases the trackbed through intersection is higher than the north/south roads. I am fully expecting accidents or other issues this year at Birchmount and Eglinton.

My father jokes that if he gets up enough speed in his Dodge Magnum (it has about 560 HP) he could get airborne ala Ferris Bueller at that intersection.

Have the regular lanes been repaved? That would be one of the last things done, could be the cause of the hump here.

 

[Richard White]

Have the regular lanes been repaved? That would be one of the last things done, could be the cause of the hump here.

Yes and No. They avoided a section around the tracks.

They have yet to fix the SE corner where the curve is a few inches above the pavement cause a well.

 

[Deadpool X]

I was trying to find the platform lengths for this line but I could get it from only one source and it was 60 m. Is that right? How does that compare with the new streetcars in terms of length?

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

I was trying to find the platform lengths for this line but I could get it from only one source and it was 60 m. Is that right? How does that compare with the new streetcars in terms of length?

From link.

The typical station box accommodates a 90 metres platform with a 40 metres service area at one end and​

a 20 metre service area at the opposite end resulting in a total station box length of 150 metres. Initially​

the LRT operation will consist of a 2-car trainset requiring a 60 metres platform. To protect for the ultimate​

3-car train set the 90 metres platform would be constructed, but then temporary walls would be installed to​

create the initial 60 metres long platform. A 2.5 metres wide corridor would bisect the remaining 30 metres​

reserved portion of the platform leading to an additional secondary entrance.​

​

Station platform lengths on the legacy subway are about 152.4 metres in length.

 

[H4F33Z]

From link.

The typical station box accommodates a 90 metres platform with a 40 metres service area at one end and​

a 20 metre service area at the opposite end resulting in a total station box length of 150 metres. Initially​

the LRT operation will consist of a 2-car trainset requiring a 60 metres platform. To protect for the ultimate​

3-car train set the 90 metres platform would be constructed, but then temporary walls would be installed to​

create the initial 60 metres long platform. A 2.5 metres wide corridor would bisect the remaining 30 metres​

reserved portion of the platform leading to an additional secondary entrance.​

​

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Station platform lengths on the legacy subway are about 152.4 metres in length.

How will this work for the surface stops?

 

[Deadpool X]

Something doesn't feel right here. A typical subway car is around 20 m long and here we are getting LRT cars that are almost 30 m long?

I remember reading long back that the cars for this line will be similar to new streetcars, which are pretty small.