[KevinT]

The grass looks ready. How do they cut the grass? Will it impact train schedules?
Lawn tractors on rails or off rails?
Weed-eaters. With hearing protection or without?
After hours?
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Goats with fricken' Presto cards on their heads!

Edit to add:

WE NEED GOATS!

That'll teach me to reply when there's another 100 posts yet to read...

 

[Admiral Beez]

Goats with fricken' Presto cards on their heads!

Goat strolls through London Underground ticket barriers

The horned brown goat named Barney, from Vauxhall City Farm, was wandering around the ticket barriers much to the amusement of City workers

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[ThenWhat]

There is a pipe draining water from somewhere below, in the middle of Duplex Avenue at Eglinton. Has been there for at least a week. A bad omen for the Yonge-Eglinton station?

 

[grammin]

Can I use the tunnels as a bikeway in the meantime?

 

[drum118]

Can I use the tunnels as a bikeway in the meantime?

No as the ATO, switches, drains and other things in the way

 

[nfitz]

No as the ATO, switches, drains and other things in the way

The solution to that is to use the tracks.

 

[jordanmkasla2009]

There is a pipe draining water from somewhere below, in the middle of Duplex Avenue at Eglinton. Has been there for at least a week. A bad omen for the Yonge-Eglinton station?

Not even connected to the line 5 project. There's water main work going on until at least November on Duplex between Berwick and Eglinton. What you are seeing is just a stub up installed in the road for flushing the new mains out.

 

[Metroscapes]

An interesting point by John McGrath at TVO today: if Doug wants an election this spring, and having this and Finch West running is a critical piece to that, the consortium has a good bargaining position.

Bluesky

bsky.app

 

[hw621]

An interesting point by John McGrath at TVO today: if Doug wants an election this spring, and having this and Finch West running is a critical piece to that, the consortium has a good bargaining position.

Bluesky

bsky.app

Guess who is footing that bill?

 

[T3G]

The Fat Controller, indeed! (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fat_Controller )

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How dare you insult Sir Topham Hatt by comparing him to Doug! Under STH's watch the Crosstown would've opened years ahead of schedule

 

[Admiral Beez]

How dare you insult Sir Topham Hatt by comparing him to Doug! Under STH's watch the Crosstown would've opened years ahead of schedule

And he knew how to deal with trouble on the rails.

 

[The REAL]

Your regular reminder that SmartTrack is not a real thing. For anyone that didn't pick up on the quotation marks.

The minute Metrolinx took over "Smarttrack" they just turned it into a GO city express line.

 

[Amare]

The minute Metrolinx took over "Smarttrack" they just turned it into a GO city express line.

Metrolinx never took "Smart Track" over, it was always a pie in the sky made up idea by an old man wasting our time because it was always really under GO Transit's jurisdiction per se. The city is on the hook for a larger share of these "Smart Track" stations now because John Tory idiotically volunteered the city to pay up the funds, something that probably wouldnt have been the case had he just pressed the province to build infill stations in Toronto.

But since we're talking about the Crosstown in this thread, let's not forget he did the same thing the Crosstown West LRT until the province took control back.

 

[Metroscapes]

Metrolinx never took "Smart Track" over, it was always a pie in the sky made up idea by an old man wasting our time because it was always really under GO Transit's jurisdiction per se. The city is on the hook for a larger share of these "Smart Track" stations now because John Tory idiotically volunteered the city to pay up the funds, something that probably wouldnt have been the case had he just pressed the province to build infill stations in Toronto.

But since we're talking about the Crosstown in this thread, let's not forget he did the same thing the Crosstown West LRT until the province took control back.

Beautiful re-railing of the thread, well done sir.

Speaking of Crosstown West, the multitude of contracts to build it have been getting finalized at a steady pace to get it to Renforth, but has there been any chatter about the airport connection?

 

[Amare]

Beautiful re-railing of the thread, well done sir.

Speaking of Crosstown West, the multitude of contracts to build it have been getting finalized at a steady pace to get it to Renforth, but has there been any chatter about the airport connection?

If only I had the capabilities of re-railing the mess that is the original Crosstown project as well.

There's no timeline, funds, or firm alignment corridor set for the airport section. I wouldnt expect to hear anything about it for at minimum a decade (that's being optimistic). Especially since it would involve the GTAA figuring out what they want to do with that Pearson Hub, and for now it seems like they are prioritizing some sort of Terminal 1 expansion.