[RussianCyclist]

A second tunnel boring machine is on the move on the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown LRT. The machine started driving east toward Keele St. from Black Creek Dr. on Monday, a little over three months after Metrolinx’s June launch of its twin.


The first tunnel borer is now near Keele St., having travelled about 155 metres and installed 99 rings of the tunnel wall. It has been shut down for about three weeks while the full conveyor system that moves the earth and gravel back to the tunnel entrance can be assembled.


About 10 of the 19-kilometres of the $4.9 billion provincially funded LRT will run underneath Eglinton. It will surface around Brentcliffe Rd. in the east and travel on the surface to Kennedy Station.

The pair, affectionately known as Dennis and Lea, after the Mount Dennis and Leaside neighbourhoods, is among four giant tunnel boring machines that will dig the Crosstown. The other pair that will tunnel westward toward Yonge St. from Brentcliffe, are called Don and Humber after the rivers.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201..._crosstown_tunneling_machine_on_the_move.html

Aside from the conveyor belt system installation, hopefully the station headwall construction will not delay the tunnelling activity. On the bright side, at least there is now visible progress.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

http://www.toronto.ca/eglinton//pdf/egconnects_flyer_oct13.pdf

They were sending these fliers out around midtown today. As a resident of Eglinton, exciting stuff! Particularly stoked about the bike lanes.

Here is the accompanying article on the mainpage: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2013/10/city-invites-you-rethink-eglinton

Now here is something that is particularly interesting to me. I live in a condo in a small complex at one of the intersections along Eglinton that have been identified as a future potential development node. I saw one of those 'hypothetical' ideas for the future of the intersection and it included the tearing down of my building and replacement with a mid or highrise. Wonder what to make of that.

 

[junctionist]

The bike lanes are great news. It's good to see the city being responsive to the public input. Many people talked about the need for bike lanes on the central part of Eglinton at meetings and on the feedback forms.

 

[One Nut Kruk]

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/02/crosstown_lrt_project_reveals_and_respects_eglintons_history.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&app=noRedirect

 

[Adjei]

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/02/crosstown_lrt_project_reveals_and_respects_eglintons_history.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&app=noRedirect

Okay i'm all for heritage preservation but what is so special about this building? I've passed it a million times and never took a second look at it...because it's nothing special.

 

[junctionist]

Okay i'm all for heritage preservation but what is so special about this building? I've passed it a million times and never took a second look at it...because it's nothing special.

From resident Simon Chamberlain mentioned in the article:

"From the Bluenose schooner carved into the stone façade to the steel-framed windows, it stands out along the down-at-heel strip."

 

[One Nut Kruk]

Okay i'm all for heritage preservation but what is so special about this building? I've passed it a million times and never took a second look at it...because it's nothing special.

How do you pass it? By vehicle, transit, on foot? If it's the former option(s), then I could probably say the same about many beautiful buildings; as driving doesn't allow for enough time to register one's surroundings in great detail.

 

[Adjei]

How do you pass it? By vehicle, transit, on foot? If it's the former option(s), then I could probably say the same about many beautiful buildings; as driving doesn't allow for enough time to register one's surroundings in great detail.

I've done all three, I know the area very well. The building is nothing special.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

We'll be getting a peek at the new Eglinton-Yonge Station in the coming weeks, according to Steve Munro.

...regarding Eglinton-Yonge Station, they “hope to have a final concept that Metrolinx, City and TTC agree on in the coming weeks and will present in the public session of the Metrolinx December Board meeting”.

http://stevemunro.ca/?p=8544

 

[One Nut Kruk]

I've done all three, I know the area very well. The building is nothing special.

Why do you say that?

 

[gweed123]

We'll be getting a peek at the new Eglinton-Yonge Station in the coming weeks, according to Steve Munro.

Please be a Spanish solution for the Yonge line platforms. Avoid creating another Bloor-Yonge. Especially considering Eglinton is an island platform station, adding new platforms on either side is significantly less complex than if it was side platforms.

 

[Johnny Au]

Please be a Spanish solution for the Yonge line platforms. Avoid creating another Bloor-Yonge. Especially considering Eglinton is an island platform station, adding new platforms on either side is significantly less complex than if it was side platforms.

Yes! I would love to see more Spanish solutions in Toronto. There is so much potential to retrofit some stations with it.

 

[Palma]

Are you advocating for parallel bus service to the Eglinton LRT subway from day 1?

Well they have it on spadina since its so close to dufferin which could have eliminated that bus if the subway has actually been built up/down Dufferin. But the past is the past

 

[innsertnamehere]

they don't run on on sheppard do they?..

 

[BurlOak]

Yes! I would love to see more Spanish solutions in Toronto. There is so much potential to retrofit some stations with it.

Eglinton is a major interchange between the Eglinton Crosstown and Yonge. If intelligence prevails, it connects a major east-west line that goes from Malvern to Pearson to the major north-south line.

I want statues of Toros, Matadors, and Picasso art (replica). No Gaudi, we want it finished this century.