Artframer
New Member
How many years has this been in the works? I hope they started the drawings for the next version of this station.
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superelevation
Active Member
I think its worth considering that even Downtown Toronto is not Euro levels of ped, cycle, transit friendliness . . . . the suburbs are a different world and suggesting a 512 St. Clair style service was what they needed has always seemed questionable.
Why is having different levels of service on one corridor (especially a major one) bad? Choice is good and the best transit systems provide lots of service choice. Wanting to not run a local bus sounds austere not the way to a better transit system.
That is a pretty ungenerous assessment. We aren't build JR East by RE trains run like half hourly or hourly generally, and Toronto is 1) sprawly 2) a vacuum for options.
Not every route needs to connect at a station. What does the Cummer bus do right now?
Allandale25
Senior Member
generalcanada
Senior Member
September is coming fast. what was the estimate for training/handover? 3 months? no shot this opens before end of year
Steve X
Senior Member
I'm pretty sure the target has been moved to substantial completion by the end of the year. Definitely not revenue service which would hopefully happen in Spring 2023. I hope your not dreaming to ride this thing this year cause the chance of that happening would be finding a job with ML or one of the contractors with the project
nfitz
Superstar
I don't see any mention of September in the article. That hasn't been the target for some time.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Officially the handover to Metrolinx is still scheduled for September 21st. Nobody is expecting it to open then, with Metrolinx saying it will open later once testing is done, but Crosslinx is supposed to have the line ready for occupancy by then.
Which likely won't be happening.
Allandale25
Senior Member
cbrown2009
Active Member
Hmmm... I'm not sure if this is the place to pose this question again, but it is related so.. Even with a pushed back opening date to Spring 2023 for the ECT, the station and connection at Caledonia and the Barrie Go line doesn't seem as though it will be ready for service/use on day 1. Please correct me if I'm wrong
crs1026
Superstar
As yet, construction of the GO station hasn’t even started.
It will lag behind the Crosstown opening by a couple of years.
- Paul
cbrown2009
Active Member
Smh.. That's really too bad..
toronto647
Active Member
I don't get why they are not publicly disclosing that the opening is pushed to next year? What is the rationale here? Are they waiting for the city elections to be finished? or waiting till its transferred to the TTC and then blame them for further delay? Like what is the reasoning as wouldn't it make sense to get ahead of the story. Proactive rather than reactive
allengeorge
Senior Member
I’m not sure what benefit there is to announcing the date. The media/public is going to say it’s late regardless, and if it slips again for whatever reason MX/TTC/politicians are going to wear egg on their faces. At this point I would just stay silent and only announce something 2-3 months out from revenue operation when I was fairly confident of hitting my target.
trtcttc
Senior Member
Find it funny that the “original” photo they had has a giant graffiti right in the middle. If no one bothered to remove it back then, how important is this “heritage” building anyways that it needed to be rebuilt.
crs1026
Superstar
Why would a heritage structure be immune from attracting grafitti?
And if you knew the building was about to be reconstructed - wouldn’t you wait and let the people doing the reconstruction remove any grafitti as part of that work ?
- Paul