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nightstreak
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With a hole that deep, they've been digging more than just today.
This was on Wednesday:
Trucks have been leaving the site one after another, 24 hours a day. I spoke with someone from Metrolinx who said they're going to be digging around the clock for about a year. Around November they'll hit bedrock and begin jackhammering. This time next year, they'll be finished excavation and begin building the station from the bottom up.
This is what the tent looks like from the garden. I have to say, I'm not happy about the trees cut down but this actually works well. The acoustic siding is working well, it's rather peaceful in the garden and the remaining trees aren't in shadow for much of the day. The green shed blends in. I'll miss the sunsets after work for the next 4 years, I hope it passes fast.
I do wish someone at Osgoode Hall had some forward thinking and planted a couple of new trees about where the Sun is hitting. 4 years feels like a long time, but at least we'd have some tall trees when the shed comes down. It's going to take 20 years to get trees close to as tall as the ones they cut down, a century before they're as mature.
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nightstreak
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The keyhole hole is a whole lot deeper today!
Holy moley that’s a lotta holes.
Holy moley that’s a lotta holes.
nightstreak
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I pestered asked a foreman on site: The shaft will be 50M deep. Bedrock is about 20M from the surface. At this pace, it'll take them 2 months to reach the bedrock, another 10 months to break through that to the full depth and from there, connect the keyhole to the Queen and Simcoe south site.
It's going to get really loud by December. Presumably jackhammering will occur within a fully enclosed tent. The north side of the tent and a portion of the east side are currently still left unclad.
The tent is staying up for 2 years after the year of excavation through a period of lowering materials into the keyhole and constructing the station to ground level. The tent should be disassembled in 2029.
Presumably the park will be restored thereafter with only minor work occurring at street level to assemble the station at the corner of Queen and University. The foreman didn't know anything about the trees but said there's no way anything grows there aside from some shrubs. The top soil will be just 1 metre. The Law Society at Osgoode Hall is responsible for the landscaping.
It's going to get really loud by December. Presumably jackhammering will occur within a fully enclosed tent. The north side of the tent and a portion of the east side are currently still left unclad.
The tent is staying up for 2 years after the year of excavation through a period of lowering materials into the keyhole and constructing the station to ground level. The tent should be disassembled in 2029.
Presumably the park will be restored thereafter with only minor work occurring at street level to assemble the station at the corner of Queen and University. The foreman didn't know anything about the trees but said there's no way anything grows there aside from some shrubs. The top soil will be just 1 metre. The Law Society at Osgoode Hall is responsible for the landscaping.
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GameOnBrad
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Dig, dig, dig...
