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Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
"Metrolinx predicted the LRT would be complete some time in 2022, but never announced a firm date. Monday’s ruling likely means the two sides will set a new deadline, and Crosslinx could avoid at least some of the financial penalties it was facing for missing the original schedule."
Undead
Senior Member
This is exactly what I think when transit city supporters claim "Scarborough would have had 69,420 kilometres of LRT by now." It seems like any major transit/infra project in Ontario is subject to considerable delays nowadays.
Allandale25
Superstar
The surface portion is obviously less complex and easier to build than the tunnel portion. I have read anywhere that the surface portion has caused great difficulty or significantly contributed to the delay.
ARG1
Senior Member
Ye I know, that's why I added the /s
Allandale25
Superstar
^ oh, I didn't get the reference.
nfitz
Superstar
If we want to see which is faster to build, we can use the start and end dates of the FInch West and Eglinton Transit City lines, once construction is complete.
EnviroTO
Senior Member
It is not that bad. The tunnelling contract 1 was signed September 2012 and work completed January 2015, and tunnelling contract 2 was signed November 2013 and work completed August 2016, and stations contract was signed late 2015 and was supposed to complete in 2020 but will complete in late 2022 pushing opening to 2023. So tunnelling contracts completed in 3 years, and station contract will have taken 7 years, 1.5 years of those during a pandemic. Seven years is similar to the Spadina extention I think. All these projects seem to take 7 years.
Really I would expect most stations other than the most central stations from Cedarvale to Mount Pleasant and Kennedy to reach substantial completion this year, and that all the street holes will be filled in except for Yonge-Eglinton. Right now they are just pouring concrete like crazy. Many of the central stations didn't have a shovel in the ground until 2017. Mount Pleasant only started in 2018 focused on a storm sewer and only really getting to the station in late 2018 with them pouring half the station box roof in 2019, and the other half at the very beginning of 2020.
I assume that the reason all three contracts didn't get signed in 2012 is financial, but you can't start the stopwatch until a contract is signed.
44 North
Senior Member
My hope at the time was the station's architectural uniformity would speed things up quite a bit. Hm maybe it has, and this would've taken a lot longer if each were architecturally unique.
Johnny Au
Superstar
Oakwood station on May 15 and 16, 2021:
Secondary entrance:
Main entrance:
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KhalilHeron
Active Member
It wouldn't be that bad if the original construction time was estimated to be 7 (or say 6 because of the pandemic) years. The problem is that the completion date they gave to the public was three years off and counting.
TRONto
Active Member
I said they'd open the same year and people were saying no way!It would be interesting if Finch West opens before this line.
KhalilHeron
Active Member
The 54 gets to stay as the TTC's longest route for a while longer at least 
Richard White
Senior Member
The 54 gets to stay as the TTC's longest route for a while longer at least
I once took the 54 from Starspray to Eglinton and the 501 from Neville to Long Branch. Those were hell of a long trips.
