innsertnamehere
Superstar
They will likely open within a month of each other or so this fall in the September to November range.
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hw621
Senior Member
Here we go...
PurplePinky
Active Member
I had the same reaction when I read about it!
Didn’t even know there was sinking sand in mid Toronto.
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A 6264
Active Member
I've looked for a rumour of tracks sinking at Bayview Station (or Leaside Station, which is what it will be called on line 5; I'm not sure which station we're even talking about), and can't find anything. Maybe it's time to ask for a source. Not that I don't think it's possible; the intersection (on Eglinton) is on a former or covered-over river bed.
cplchanb
Senior Member
at this rate they need to be serious on this and push for 24/7 work to remediate just like theyre doing for the gardiner.
MisterF
Senior Member
I heard a rumour that they opened a portal to another dimension and now Kaiju are coming through.You guys were all getting sick of me joking about "Cracked foundation slab at Eglinton" but this is ever better.
I didn't even know you could have quick sand in non tropical regions.
Hahaha.
stevensontransit
Active Member
Ontario apparently is still doubling down on the September opening date: https://www.cp24.com/politics/toron...ton-lrt-despite-ttc-calling-timeline-a-reach/
robmausser
Senior Member
toronto647
Active Member
What bothers me the most is not the project getting delayed into 2026 but more so why not come out and publicly say so rather than the public second guessing themselves and in a state of confusion. Just be honest and it will open when it opens.
hw621
Senior Member
They may not even know when it can open themselves. That's the most scary.
Coolibop
Active Member
Not to be too much of a stickler, but fall ends on December 21st. I keep hearing (including in the reporting above) that a fall opening is plausible—and certainly that it will open by year-end.
Is the schedule so tight that it can credibly shift from "not sure" to “definitely open” within that final 10-day window? We need to be accurate in our reporting—especially when it comes to public-facing communications from both bureaucracy and media.
max
Active Member
It definitely exists elsewhere in Toronto
Photo source: https://www.gettyimages.dk/detail/n...k-warns-of-news-photo/170386276?adppopup=true
nfitz
Superstar
Unfortunately so many things have gone sideways that this is actually believable.[/QUOTE]I think I mentioned something here a decade or so ago. Coincidentally - or not - I was drilling some monitoring wells at the northeast corner of Eglinton and Bayview - over 30 years ago - and at quite a surprising depth hit the most flowing sands I've ever seen. No spoon recovery, and it looked like soup coming out of the hole. N=1! Complete liquefaction.
It was hardly an unknown though. They riddled this area with so many boreholes, and would have been well aware of this. With the station and tunnel design dealing with this accordingly.
I talked to someone once who was involved with the dewatering for this station, and they didn't have any particular extraordinary challenges for this station compared to the rest of the line.
Probably a kernel of truth has turned into a myth.
PurplePinky
Active Member
When the McDonalds was built on the south east corner, there were problems with concrete ‘sinking’ or a slab (for parking lot) of concrete sinking. Or similar.
It was due to the underground river at that location, it was remedied but it has not been forgotten.
IMO, some are nervous of what is to come with trains full of people, load changes etc.
It was due to the underground river at that location, it was remedied but it has not been forgotten.
IMO, some are nervous of what is to come with trains full of people, load changes etc.
PurplePinky
Active Member
Most of those nervous Nellie’s do not have any engineering or design background.
Wonder if that would help their understanding?
Wonder if that would help their understanding?
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