[TheTigerMaster]

Because they will launch from Brentcliffe sooner than when they extract from Yonge?

Oops. I had forgotten that Don and Humber existed. I had been thinking that Dennis and Lea were boring the entire ECLRT.

 

[Edward Skira]

If they had the funding to lay the track for the above ground portion at the same time in the east to Kennedy station, then this could be done before 2020.

Considering they are launching the line all at once there's no reason to start the above ground section now. The big work is the tunnelled section.

 

[ehlow]

This is exactly the kind of intensification we need on our avenues.

Do you recall how many townhouses and condos you saw at the intersection? I only see Sunnyboook Plaza on the DataBase.

That's bayview, I was talking about brentcliffe to leslie. There are two new condos called Scenic on Eglinton, townhomes and a park which seem new. I also saw one new condo tower under construction. I wouldn't be surprised if more of the industrial areas convert to either retail or residential in the future.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Speaking of, the location of Sunnybrook Plaza on the database is wrong.

I don't know if there is demand for it, but I wouldn't mind seeing some office space being built in the former industrial lands too. Mixed uses would be good for the neighborhood and this stretch of the Crosstown line.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

It will be great once we have both machines in the west and east boring at the same time.

If they had the funding to lay the track for the above ground portion at the same time in the east to Kennedy station, then this could be done before 2020.

Oh well, money money.

Speaking of, the location of Sunnybrook Plaza on the database is wrong.

I don't know if there is demand for it, but I wouldn't mind seeing some office space being built in the former industrial lands too. Mixed uses would be good for the neighborhood and this stretch of the Crosstown line.

That's what's been proposed for the Celestica site.

 

[someMidTowner]

Speaking of, the location of Sunnybrook Plaza on the database is wrong.

I don't know if there is demand for it, but I wouldn't mind seeing some office space being built in the former industrial lands too. Mixed uses would be good for the neighborhood and this stretch of the Crosstown line.

We have the correct address listed, so this seems to be a mapping issue that isn't on UT's end.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

It would be really cool to see this thing laying the track for our LRT. But I know there are probably a hundred and one reasons why it won't work

[video=youtube;02pWbr9bgbA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwiNaHmOscU&feature=youtu.be&t=2m29s[/video]

 

[Platform 27]

^ Reason 1/101 = That train is used to renew existing tracks, not lay brand-new ones for the first time (think about it... the front end has to run on something, right?)

Reason 2/101 = That train wouldn't be super useful running down the middle of Eglinton Avenue East where unballasted tracks meeting relatively-frequent cross-streets are the proposed solution.

Other folks can cover off the remaining 99. But cool vid, bro.

 

[ehlow]

Speaking of, the location of Sunnybrook Plaza on the database is wrong.

I don't know if there is demand for it, but I wouldn't mind seeing some office space being built in the former industrial lands too. Mixed uses would be good for the neighborhood and this stretch of the Crosstown line.

I saw some small office buildings under construction in that industrial & big box area in Leaside.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Reason 2/101 = That train wouldn't be super useful running down the middle of Eglinton Avenue East where unballasted tracks meeting relatively-frequent cross-streets are the proposed solution.

Do we know for sure that the tracks aren't ballasted? Keep in mind that the ballasts could be covered by concrete after they've been installed. That's how the TTC does them for streetcars:

 

[smallspy]

Do we know for sure that the tracks aren't ballasted? Keep in mind that the ballasts could be covered by concrete after they've been installed. That's how the TTC does them for streetcars:

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The only stretch of ballasted track on the TTC streetcar system is the section between Humber Loop and Sunnyside, along The Queensway. Everything else is rail encapsulated in concrete.

What you are showing in that photo is the rail attached to the ties, sitting on the cured, poured concrete slab. The nest layer covers the ties, and the third fills up to the top of the rail.

Dan
Toronto, Ont.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

A look at Boston's Green Line. Originally built in 1897 using the streetcars of the time, now using light rail vehicles (shorter than the Flexity Freedom) in an underground subway, surface right-of-way, and in mixed traffic.

[video=youtube;AYsRo4vigGw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYsRo4vigGw[/video]

 

[Palma]

looks like a streetcar

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Here's a time lapse from the Edmonton light rail.

[video=youtube;PVya5wnJpVg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVya5wnJpVg[/video]

Too bad it's a light rail line not a heavy rail subway, which some anti-transit folks prefer.

 

[11th]

Here's a time lapse from the Edmonton light rail.

Too bad it's a light rail line not a heavy rail subway, which some anti-transit folks prefer.

I hope you're not comparing the Edmonton light rail with the in-median LRTs we are getting.
Anti-transit folks might not want this, but there sure to be those who will prefer this over Transit City style LRT lines.