EnviroTO
Senior Member
I thought the source of graffiti in the city was a group of heritage preservationists running around marking buildings for removal like arborists marking trees. Was I misinformed?
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trtcttc
Senior Member
It won’t be immune, but if it’s of so little importance to people why bother spending the money and time rebuilding it. I wonder how much money and time wasted for useless “heritage“ features in Toronto, like the ugly train shed at Union.
ARG1
Senior Member
idk, I think the train shed is lovely.
Richard White
Senior Member
That train shed has so much heritage protection they can't fully demolish it.
daniel_kryz
Active Member
I'm not sure what all the fuss is about.
The train shed is very ugly and isn't an integral part of Union Station. The head house (with the columns and great hall) is the true gem... therefore not replacing train shed WAS a mistake.
This building is beautiful and adds character to this intersection. Therefore, this transit project should, and did, restore it to its former glory.
Or are we now against heritage preservation? By that, I mean true heritage... not protecting worthless buildings as a cynical way to prevent development.
The train shed is very ugly and isn't an integral part of Union Station. The head house (with the columns and great hall) is the true gem... therefore not replacing train shed WAS a mistake.
This building is beautiful and adds character to this intersection. Therefore, this transit project should, and did, restore it to its former glory.
Or are we now against heritage preservation? By that, I mean true heritage... not protecting worthless buildings as a cynical way to prevent development.
T3G
Senior Member
Probably next to zero, considering Toronto by and large cares nothing for its heritage and demolishes historically significant buildings and vehicles at the slightest provocation.
Praise be to the exemptions.
PL1
Senior Member
Backfill at Leaside (Bayview) nearing road level. Fri, Aug 19.
youngblood
Active Member
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
this is pure clickbait.
DirectionNorth
Senior Member
Aplus23
Active Member
Ground broke on this about 10yrs ago, with a large portion of the line above ground, how on earth has this line taken this long? Ino the pandemic didn't help although one would think that would've helped construction with less ppl on the road.
Have they learned anything in order to make the next projects faster? Finch west is making great progress it seems like
Have they learned anything in order to make the next projects faster? Finch west is making great progress it seems like
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Finch west isn't underground.
This started tunnel construction in 2013 (9 years ago), but substantial construction from the primary contract IIRC did not begin until 2015 or so.
Also, the surface part of this line was built relatively quickly.
Steve X
Senior Member
If it was robots building this thing, sure less cars would speed things up. Since they were human, some of the workers probably didn't believe in COVID at the time, did little to prevent the spread and the virus made it around and got a whole bunch of workers isolating cause they either got it or had close contact. They also would want to minimized mixing groups of worker so it wouldn't spread like wildfire.
They whole line took so long is also cause of the cash flow favours pushing all the spending to the final years. Eg West also sees all the station construction hitting mainstream in 2026-2030 and would likely be another repeat if another pandemic show up again.
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
I’m really in the mood to celebrate the opening of a new transit line. Come on, Metrolinx, you can do it!
Tunafish13
Active Member
Not sure if this is planned for all stops, but there are 2 monitors (back to back) at the O'Connor stop and it looks like there is wiring for it at the Pharmacy stop as well.
Is this going to be advertising or something actually useful?