Northern Light said:

The gist is thus, they've managed to make the riverbanks unstable, and its compromising the construction site, so now, they're 'closing the river'. That's not the big deal (the inconvenience); its that they're deploying a coffer dam which means, they will be drying out the river for a significant section and piping it around the work area then back into the river bed.
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It appears they are placing bags for the coffer dam just north of the West Don Crossing Bridge site.

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Aplus23 said:
Are these bridges getting wider?
They need some lights underneath
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The bridges are indeed getting wider and do require lights underneath. Maybe a quarter to a third the size of the underpass on Yonge under the rail corridor. But, the bridges are also getting taller (I think) so it will have more light in the 2 entrances when compared to current state.

Here is a comparison shot of the Queen street bridge before and after construction (sorry for the video screencaps):

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@kai ’s most recent photos do show a string of light fixtures on the far wall of the underpass. I would hope tonsee even more installed as construction continues.

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goodcitywhenfinished said:
I hope the finished underpasses will not be this barren.

Calgary has done some excellent work on a few of the rail underpasses in the city, Toronto should take note:

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Not gunna happen in Toronto.

We're allergic to anything asides from grey, bright white (which turns to dirty grey), or black when it comes to infrastructure builds in this city. Anything asides from that just gets value-engineered down. This city is too sterile and dull to think outside of the box.
 
Well that didn't take long. There's already graffiti on the Lake Shore East corridor sound barriers - this is on the south side of Dundas St E.
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Last shot before the North/West section of bridge deck demolition at Queen this weekend.
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smallspy said:
Of course there are. But if we're talking about station dwell times - which it seems as if we were - then the length of the train is not one of them.
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nfitz said:
It has nothing to do with the length or width of the car; it has everything to do with the door spacing and size.
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Assuming equal doors per train length, the train width should make some difference, though (OL will have a narrower loading gauge)?

innsertnamehere said:
There are other factors like the number of doors.. but to say the size of the train has no influence is silly. It's one of many factors. I never claimed it was the only factor.
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Likewise, door size/spacing certainly isn't the only factor either, and combined with other factors they can easily cancel each other out, as we've seen in the past. And even if all other factors (except this one) were equal, there's the obvious easy solution to build schedules to account for the properties of the equipment they have.
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