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Metrolinx begins its big eastern dig on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT: Get ready for traffic

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

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I guess the alternate routes are through Thorncliffe Park at Overlea Blvd or through Bridle Path up north.

I didn't know they already closed lanes down during the day.
 
OK, in a previous post I said that the old method of expropriate, demolish and cut and cover was economically unrealistic today when homes cost $1,000,000, not $10,000. I still think this is true. However, in rare circumstances, it pays off to pay market price - or even above market price - to seize valuable land to build infrastructure where the alternative - closing multiple lanes of one of the busiest, and most important surface roads in the entire city - would actually lead to a productivity loss well in excess of what it would cost to expropriate homes.

I think it would have been much more beneficial to just buy out the residents of those townhomes on the northern side of Aerodrome Crescent, and demolish the properties to build the launch site there. Taking out 4 traffic lanes on Eglinton for several years is going to be a major disaster. I think we could have even afforded to give these people 1.5X market value, and also pay significant sums of money to the people living on the south side, who have to endure the noise, dust and debris.
 
Hipster Duck said:
I think it would have been much more beneficial to just buy out the residents of those townhomes on the northern side of Aerodrome Crescent, and demolish the properties to build the launch site there. Taking out 4 traffic lanes on Eglinton for several years is going to be a major disaster. I think we could have even afforded to give these people 1.5X market value, and also pay significant sums of money to the people living on the south side, who have to endure the noise, dust and debris.
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Screw the residents of Aerodrome Crescent. Had they and their neighbours not put up such a big fight over the Leslie St. stop, we might still have a more logical turn-back point at Don Mills and a launch site in the overflow lot at the Science Centre.
 
ehlow said:
I noticed a "For Sale" sign on the right (east) building of the two that are to be demolished for Mt Pleasant station's 2nd entrance on the NE of the corner between the apartment buildings on Eglinton.

Why hasn't Metrolinx bought it I wonder? They'll need it.

Here's the streetview but there's a big truck in the way
http://goo.gl/maps/lY9Ap
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Old real estate trick. Metrolinx makes an offer based on appraised market value. Landowner tries to drive the price up by putting it on the market and asking for double what its worth. Some sucker buys it thinking Metrolinx will have to pay top dollar. Metrolinx expropriates it for original appraised price.
 
By the time all four machines reach Yonge, enough dirt and muck will have been removed to fill the Air Canada Centre to the height of the CN Tower, says Robinson.
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I feel like we should use this dirt for something...
 
ShonTron said:
Screw the residents of Aerodrome Crescent. Had they and their neighbours not put up such a big fight over the Leslie St. stop, we might still have a more logical turn-back point at Don Mills and a launch site in the overflow lot at the Science Centre.
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I am not sure if this is right, but I guess you are saying the residents of Aerodrome Crescent has 3 choices:

1. Skip the Leslie stop and tunnel all the way to Don Mills.
2. Have a south side alignment, keeping all lanes for traffic both during constuction and in the final configuration.
3. Build the LRT and portal in the median, eliminating lanes both temporarily and permanently.

I guess you are right, residents of Aerodrome Crescent are really stupid for chosing option 3 instead of 2.

If they were not given these options clearly, then of course the residents of Aerodrome Crescent cannot be blamed and all the blame would fall on Metrolix and the their Liberal masters.
 
With the amount of grass and trees around there, didn't seem to be a need to place the tracks in the street. Whether there is a Leslie stop or not.
 
"The underground portion of the Crosstown will be 10 kilometres long, while the other nine kilometres will run at ground level or on an elevated track."

This is giving a false impression. The "elevated track" will be a couple of hundred metres needed to get the train from underground into the side of the rise of the Kodak Lands, over Black Creek Drive. This is also known as a bridge.
 
edmundoconnor said:
"The underground portion of the Crosstown will be 10 kilometres long, while the other nine kilometres will run at ground level or on an elevated track."

This is giving a false impression. The "elevated track" will be a couple of hundred metres needed to get the train from underground into the side of the rise of the Kodak Lands, over Black Creek Drive. This is also known as a bridge.
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lol
 
howl said:
Old real estate trick. Metrolinx makes an offer based on appraised market value. Landowner tries to drive the price up by putting it on the market and asking for double what its worth. Some sucker buys it thinking Metrolinx will have to pay top dollar. Metrolinx expropriates it for original appraised price.
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Government that consistently pays way over top dollar for everything and anything including salaries and consultants, etc.. People know if they do work for the government they over estimate all costs and they pay it. Look at all the corruption with this Liberal government. I think whoever bought that piece of property and at whatever price, Metrolinz would have a hard time just paying the appraised value instead of what they buyer bought it for.

Its amazing, Metrolinx buckles over and builds all these extra stations that should not be being built all because a handful of people in those communities show up and then they will not pay whoever bought the property the costs he paid plus expenses/
 
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