[kotsy]

Update on the trestle bridge for Lower Don Crossing:

Aftermath of Logan Bridge demolition:

Riverdale Shopping Centre demolition at the Gerrard Portal/TBM launch site is almost done:

 

[kotsy]

The latest Pape-Cosburn & Minton Place CLC presentation is now out: https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/Images/Metrolinx/20250416_PapeCosburn-Minton_CLC.pdf

Construction progress/upcoming works highlights:

 

[generalcanada]

Okay i see a new full round of CLC's been done.
Will do each one in different posts starting with Thorncliffe park

https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/v1746197578/Images/Metrolinx/Ontario%20Line/Thorncliffe_Park_CLC_April_2025.pdf

Nothing much here, but guideway and station construction should start by the end of 2025

 

[generalcanada]

Pape: https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/...etrolinx/PapeDanforthandSammonCLC_May2025.pdf
excavation and underpinning details for Pape
apperently a changed alignment
and cleanup of the slurry tanks at the pape-danforth site

 

[generalcanada]

Queen station:

https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/v1747164054/Documents/OL_Construction_Liaison_Community_-_Queen_Station_-_May_2025_-_FINAL.pdf

apperently theyre installing an overhead crane for the Queen west site.
images of that acoustic shelter again

 

[generalcanada]

Now to the juicy meetings. Queen-Spadina: https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/...nx/CLC_Presentation_QS_May_6th_2025-Final.pdf
Status of tunnel excavation

 

[generalcanada]

And King-Bathurst https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/...ages/Metrolinx/KING-BATHURST_May_2025_CLC.pdf
cavern excavation continues

 

[goodcitywhenfinished]

I have been wondering - are a lot of the workers for these tunnel projects local or are they flown in from Europe?

In Vancouver on the Broadway Subway most of the site supers are 3 months on/off from Italy and Spain. I'm guessing in Toronto we might have more local expertise considering we have had a steady stream of tunnelling projects since 2011.

 

[crs1026]

Those are more helpful reports than we saw in the past, I hope ML can keep this up.

The most interesting data point to me was that the statement that X m3 of rock has been excavated.... a reminder that we aren't tunnelling thru soil here.

- Paul

 

[Jimvee]

Not to be that guy but math is important to a successful engineering project…

 

[Molybdenum]

The latest Pape-Cosburn & Minton Place CLC presentation is now out: https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/Images/Metrolinx/20250416_PapeCosburn-Minton_CLC.pdf

Construction progress/upcoming works highlights:
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They are about a month behind this schedule on demolitions for Cosburn Station. Hoarding and sidewalk protection is only going up now.

 

[Richard White]

This is an interesting view of the property I manage (2nd from the right, the small black building)

 

[Divas S.]

I have a potentially stupid question; was a station ever considered at strachen next to the Lakeshore Line? It seems like reasonable place for western LV especially next to all those condos and its a decent distance between exhibition and bathurst

 

[Richard White]

I have a potentially stupid question; was a station ever considered at strachen next to the Lakeshore Line? It seems like reasonable place for western LV especially next to all those condos and its a decent distance between exhibition and bathurst

Why?

With Exhibition station only a few hundred meters away it wouldn't be practical.

It may even be within the stopping distance of trains.

 

[nfitz]

Why?

With Exhibition station only a few hundred meters away it wouldn't be practical.

It may even be within the stopping distance of trains.

It's about 400 metres from the current east end of the Exhibition platform to Strachan Avenue. A 12-car GO Train is usually about 335 metres long.

For GO, if you centred the new platform at Strachan, then the back end of the train stopping eastbound at Strachan would still be on the current platform for Exhibition.

Not the same for the subway, but it's not far.

The best solution would be to add a walkway from the east end of the Exhibition platforms to Strachan - instead of having to walk to the far west end of the platform.