[Amare]

That article is from 2023, but that they are apparently doing work to fix the exact same issue in the exact same area once again is what is enraging.

Exactly this.

Did Metrolinx not realize that there were "platform deficiencies" a year and half ago around the same time Sloane station was found to be deficient, but it's just now they've found and are getting to deficiencies in the surrounding area?

This whole thing is just comical and laughable.

 

[Bojaxs]

That article is from 2023, but that they are apparently doing work to fix the exact same issue in the exact same area once again is what is enraging.

Exactly this.

Did Metrolinx not realize that there were "platform deficiencies" a year and half ago around the same time Sloane station was found to be deficient, but it's just now they've found and are getting to deficiencies in the surrounding area?

This whole thing is just comical and laughable.

Sorry, are you guys telling us that one of the "above ground" stations is getting torn up again?

 

[Amare]

Sorry, are you guys telling us that one of the "above ground" stations is getting torn up again?

We'll see starting on Monday what the scope of work is.

 

[dullturtle06]

Hi all, with all the bad news recently thought I would bring up some pictures of what will hopefully open this year. I haven't seen these images before so wanted to share for those who have not seen them either.

These are picture from Caledonia, Mount Pleasant, and Cedarvale Stations.

 

[Bojaxs]

Hi all, with all the bad news recently thought I would bring up some pictures of what will hopefully open this year. I haven't seen these images before so wanted to share for those who have not seen them either.

These are picture from Caledonia, Mount Pleasant, and Cedarvale Stations.

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Great photos. Really makes one wish the entire length of the Eglinton Crosstown was built underground as a proper subway.

 

[stevedean]

Hi all, with all the bad news recently thought I would bring up some pictures of what will hopefully open this year. I haven't seen these images before so wanted to share for those who have not seen them either.

These are picture from Caledonia, Mount Pleasant, and Cedarvale Stations.

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pretty sure these photos are from mid-2024

 

[Kyle Campbell]

I'm guessing the reason for the "delay" in opening the Crosstown LRT Line 5 is to not have the same problems that the Confederations LRT Line had in Ottawa. Unfortunately, we don't have a list of what Line 5 "problems" are. Still under lock and key. See https://www.tvo.org/article/ottawas-colossal-lrt-debacle-a-brief-ish-history

We can hope, but I wouldn't hold my breath for a smooth first year when it opens.

This project is like Ion and the confed line glued together, and will be operationally complex.

 

[beatle04]

Exactly this.

Did Metrolinx not realize that there were "platform deficiencies" a year and half ago around the same time Sloane station was found to be deficient, but it's just now they've found and are getting to deficiencies in the surrounding area?

This whole thing is just comical and laughable.

So I'm honestly not exactly sure how accurate what I'm about to say is since this could simply be broken telephone but I've heard from someone (who was told this by a person working on the project) that there are 6 platforms with deficiencies where the train doors do not line up with the platform. Supposedly they've been super slow at fixing this issues because - unsurprisingly - Metrolinx and Crosslinx have spent a ton of time - possibly in court - trying to figure out who messed up and who pays for the fix.

 

[jmi22]

Hi all, with all the bad news recently thought I would bring up some pictures of what will hopefully open this year. I haven't seen these images before so wanted to share for those who have not seen them either.

These are picture from Caledonia, Mount Pleasant, and Cedarvale Stations.

The photos are great and the stations themselves are really quite nice brand spanking new. However, and I'm far from the first person to point this out, but these stations are going to age horriblyyyyy. The all white look of the 2010's can maybe be upkept in the kitchen of a Rosedale home, but the passage of tens of thousands of people thru essentially a blank canvas for every spill, scratch and act of vandalism will take its toll rapidly.

Quite a microcosm of the short sighted adherence to the biggest trend of the moment that seems to have dominated every aspect of this projects design.

 

[goodcitywhenfinished]

The photos are great and the stations themselves are really quite nice brand spanking new. However, and I'm far from the first person to point this out, but these stations are going to age horriblyyyyy. The all white look of the 2010's can maybe be upkept in the kitchen of a Rosedale home, but the passage of tens of thousands of people thru essentially a blank canvas for every spill, scratch and act of vandalism will take its toll rapidly.

Quite a microcosm of the short sighted adherence to the biggest trend of the moment that seems to have dominated every aspect of this projects design.

Hospitals tend to have blank white finishes and with proper janitorial care they don’t age that bad.

But yes I would have preferred some kind of interior cladding on all the walls here.

 

[nfitz]

Hospitals tend to have blank white finishes and with proper janitorial care they don’t age that bad.

Hospital walls are designed to be frequently painted.

I'm not sure what the finish here is.

 

[jmi22]

Hospitals tend to have blank white finishes and with proper janitorial care they don’t age that bad.

But yes I would have preferred some kind of interior cladding on all the walls here.

True, but the way in which these spaces are used and regulated are very different. Cladding, specifically (subway) tile has been used for a long time and not on accident, it just works well for the context. But of course we had to re-invent the wheel.

 

[cplchanb]

True, but the way in which these spaces are used and regulated are very different. Cladding, specifically (subway) tile has been used for a long time and not on accident, it just works well for the context. But of course we had to re-invent the wheel.

Well that's what you get when you let naive design architects with their utopian dreamworlds take hold of the project instead of utilizing construction architects who understand the real world

 

[T3G]

Well that's what you get when you let naive design architects with their utopian dreamworlds take hold of the project instead of utilizing construction architects who understand the real world

Sorry, who is in charge of the project? If Metrolinx didn't want "utopian dreamworld" design, they could've rejected it and gone with another. This is entirely on them. We aren't living in the Soviet Union, where transit operators were told to take what was available and that was it.

 

[northyorker1]

Sorry, who is in charge of the project? If Metrolinx didn't want "utopian dreamworld" design, they could've rejected it and gone with another. This is entirely on them. We aren't living in the Soviet Union, where transit operators were told to take what was available and that was it.

To set the record straight, transit stations in the Soviet Union were some of the most beautiful in the world (still are, actually).