kotsy
Senior Member
The trestle bridge for the Lower Don crossing is one segment away from crossing the Don River.
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jmi22
Active Member
Run from them, hide from them.... the Nimby $2 million dollar Riverside homeowner will always return...
jmi22
Active Member
Stunning shots! Are these photos of the work for the new Don Valley Bridge from East York to Flemingdon Park?
T3G
Senior Member
Is it NIMBYism? There's a lot of reasons to oppose the surface alignment. Like the fact that it kneecaps any future ability to expand the Lakeshore East corridor.
Metrolinx keeps getting it completely wrong. Where a surface alignment should be chosen, the line is buried, where burial is desired, a surface alignment is chosen, where a light metro is desirable, a full scale subway is going there, where a full scale subway is desirable, we get a light metro. It's like playing opposites but in infrastructure design. Give the task to a bunch of defiant, anti-establishment teenagers and tell them that you want something you actually don't want,, and you'll get better results than with "professionals" at the helm.
Am I allowed to say that as someone who will probably never be affluent enough to own a house?
81-717
Active Member
First time hearing anyone opposing the GO/OL alignment and wanting the OL to be underground through there, tbh. Downtown I get why anything not underground is a non-starter, but given how much easier & quicker it would be to build non-underground, me thinks we'd build entire subway lines like that if only we could (we can't). As for GO expansion, maybe I'm out of the loop but I know of no plans to add more tracks along Lakeshore East. Ironically both line 3s have prevented GO expansion, but now that one of them is shut down the Stoufville line is in the clear for that.
The preservation industry loves playing opposites too...
urbanclient
New Member
To be fair, since GO Expansion is and was kneecapped already, saving billions by using the rail ROW in the shorter term is probably not a bad idea. As far as I know a third track for LSE was never planned during the first two phases of GO Expansion. If a third track for LSE is needed later they can add it later. Saving money sooner is better than saving money later for such a cash-strapped government.
jmi22
Active Member
Yes, I'm sure the protest campaign against the OL a few years back was based on nuanced arguments for the future of regional and intercity railroad capacity.
Not the invented "health impacts" or literal complaints about too many trains running through the EXISTING RAIL CORRIDOR.
Just because you may have nominally more sophisticated arguments against something, does not mean the the actual movement against it shared those concerns. Turns out, they are actually opposed to your desire for greater regional/intercity rail service, because trains along a train track are ooo so evil.
If you can find anything but the most passing references to GO/VIA capacity on this whole page I'll eat my hat.
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hawc
Senior Member
Thanks! Correct. That's exactly right.
urbancog
Active Member
hawc
Senior Member
Wait, we all know that? That's, like, common knowledge???
I've never heard of Michael Schabas. I don't know any Schabas.
Who is 'we all'?
T3G
Senior Member
I wasn't aware every person with an opinion is answerable for every other person holding said opinion. What a convenient way to dismiss all your ideological opponents.
Unless you can prove that a person commenting is a home owning NIMBY, it is defamation, nothing more.
hawc
Senior Member
Private property is theft.
evandyk
Senior Member
The only Schabas I know is Justice Paul Schabas, who forbade Ford from tearing up bike lanes
But this is the Michael Schabas:
How Ford’s Ontario Line plan came together in just three months — with secrecy, a shifting route and a consultant
More than 5,600 pages of internal Metrolinx documents reveals the Ontario Line was dreamed up by a private consultant, who pitched the concept in January 2019. Three months later the premier would announce it as the “crown jewel” of his transit plans.
www.thestar.com
evandyk
Senior Member
It's funny re-reading that article 5.5 years later with knowledge of everything that's gone on with Eglinton and Metrolinx. What a culture of absolute refusal to be transparent and accountable to the public.
