[Midtown Urbanist]

Photos of the construction
http://www.postcity.com/Eat-Shop-Do...onstruction-is-changing-midtown-in-18-photos/

Half the store closures pictured in this article have been due to other reasons. (Condo development at Laird/Eglinton, and the Sunnybrook Plaza is always coming and going with new stores, stores typically do not perform well there with the high rents and commercial traffic.)

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

Maybe the wrong thread for this, but I'd say Tory has accomplished a few things of note. I might not agree with it, but a definitive vote was taken on East Gardiner.

I don't get why this is a good idea. All I see is this will make Lake shore worse then it already is. It's not designed for the level of traffic that will use it if we get rid of the gardner or shorten it or whatever plan council comes up with next

The Scarborough RT replacement / subway extension / LRT plan has definitely come from his time in office.

All he's done is cobbled together the plans of Tory (the LRT) and Ford (The subway) all because he doesn't want the subway to get in the way of his precious cocktail napkin drawing of "smart track" more like Dumb track if you asks me.

 

[Edward Skira]

I thought the staging area is off to the side in the location of the old TTC bus bays? This should be fairly secluded from the traffic, or am I totally off base?

Do we know what the construction method will be for the underground sections at Don Mills and Kennedy?

The western TBM's can be removed at the old bus bays. The eastern ones will have to be removed on the east side of Yonge. That will be the nuts part. As will the construction of the station.

 

[robmausser]

The western TBM's can be removed at the old bus bays. The eastern ones will have to be removed on the east side of Yonge. That will be the nuts part. As will the construction of the station.

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They are also moving the platforms for the Yonge Line at Eglinton.

http://stevemunro.ca/2013/11/17/crosstown-lrt-interchanges-with-the-yonge-university-spadina-subway/

Will also be nutso.

 

[dowlingm]

I thought one set of TBMs (the east ones?) were being left in the ground?

 

[Voltz]

I thought one set of TBMs (the east ones?) were being left in the ground?

I think they said they would be getting left in the ground and removed as the station gets built.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

They are also moving the platforms for the Yonge Line at Eglinton.

http://stevemunro.ca/2013/11/17/crosstown-lrt-interchanges-with-the-yonge-university-spadina-subway/

Will also be nutso.

I assume this means no more Vitrolite in Toronto

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

For those who don't know where Forest Hill was or is, here's a map of the old village:

So naming the Bathurst station on the Crosstown LRT after Forest Hill seems appropriate. Even if they had to annex the southwest corner at Bathurst & Eglinton away from the Township of York.

 

[kotsy]

Any idea when they will start the platform renovations on the Yonge line @ Eglinton?

 

[Amare]

I assume this means no more Vitrolite in Toronto

It's going to be a very sad day when they start striping the vitrolite panels out. Theoretically, i'd say they should try and preserve and reinstall them, but we all know that there's at most a 5% chance they would actually go through with that. Not to mention the panels possibly might not be strong enough to survive that kind of process.

 

[crs1026]

From what has been said about them, it might be hard to strip them out without cracking. But I'd sure be willing to buy a few - enough for one wall of my bathroom. Wouldn't it be ironic if after decades of complaints that our subway stations looked like bathrooms, a few tiles actually ended up in one ?

- Paul

 

[kEiThZ]

I wonder what the timeline is Crosstown East. Best case scenario they hit Kennedy and keep going!

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

I woke up today and went out the balcony to see Eglinton at a standstill, and began counting the number of buses heading eastbound.

9 buses (one of them is in front of the first bus out of the frame) with another 2 approaching in the distance.

And to the left, at the intersection, another 3 buses waiting for the lights. Beyond the intersection I see one more bus dropping passengers off in front of Leaside HS (not in frame).

15 buses eastbound within a 500m stretch of each other. Just in case anyone ever wondered why the Crosstown was necessary.

 

[nfitz]

15 buses eastbound within a 500m stretch of each other. Just in case anyone ever wondered why the Crosstown was necessary.

Sounds like what Sheppard East used to look like in the 1980s.

Any idea when they will start the platform renovations on the Yonge line @ Eglinton?

Very good question.

There was some talk a while ago, that the new Eglinton East and Eglinton stations for the Eglinton line would be separate contracts, because of the TTC issues. But is this how it ended up? If so, any sign of them being tendered?

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

The Crosstown LRT website had a new image to display the TBM's progress, at this link: