[GameOnBrad]

Waterfront Toronto will also be hosting an Open House event on October 23 from 5:30pm-8:00pm. More information is available here.

Here is their latest facebook post about 30 minutes ago that reveals more of what to expect:

Waterfront East Transit is set to connect communities across East Bayfront, the Lower Don Lands and the Port Lands.

At the Waterfront East Transit booth, you’ll have the opportunity to:

Check out the plans for new infrastructure and an expanded transportation network serving an area that will house an estimated 100,000 residents

Learn about enabling and early works underway now to set the groundwork for the new transit system, and how we’re working to improve service today

Chat with the project team, ask questions, and be part of the conversation

Join us for Waterfront Toronto’s Open House and learn about how we’re connecting communities today and for the future.

Where: T3 Bayside, 10th Floor – 251 Queens Quay East
When: Wednesday, October 23 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Event Type: Drop-In

 

[Jeff Morgan]

Check out the plans for new infrastructure and an expanded transportation network serving an area that will house an estimated 100,000 residents

Learn about enabling and early works underway now to set the groundwork for the new transit system, and how we’re working to improve service today

Chat with the project team, ask questions, and be part of the conversation

So if I'm reading this correctly there seems to be nothing new.

 

[Amare]

Here is their latest facebook post about 30 minutes ago that reveals more of what to expect:

Waterfront East Transit is set to connect communities across East Bayfront, the Lower Don Lands and the Port Lands.

At the Waterfront East Transit booth, you’ll have the opportunity to:

Check out the plans for new infrastructure and an expanded transportation network serving an area that will house an estimated 100,000 residents

Learn about enabling and early works underway now to set the groundwork for the new transit system, and how we’re working to improve service today

Chat with the project team, ask questions, and be part of the conversation

Join us for Waterfront Toronto’s Open House and learn about how we’re connecting communities today and for the future.

Where: T3 Bayside, 10th Floor – 251 Queens Quay East
When: Wednesday, October 23 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Event Type: Drop-In

Sounds like one big ol' waste of time to me!

Unless one is interested in learning about fantasies and what deep hypnosis is all about.

 

[DSCToronto]

Sounds like one big ol' waste of time to me!

Unless one is interested in learning about fantasies and what deep hypnosis is all about.

Yes, having been to meetings on it for almost 20 years I am not hopeful we will get much new. The problem is that the line needs to get to Union and the section from QQ to Union is the most complicated and costly. To add to it, the TTC is in charge of that segment.

 

[drum118]

Yes, having been to meetings on it for almost 20 years I am not hopeful we will get much new. The problem is that the line needs to get to Union and the section from QQ to Union is the most complicated and costly. To add to it, the TTC is in charge of that segment.

Opening 2050 now because of TTC

 

[drum118]

Did anyone go to Thursday Night public meeting for QQE as I love to hear the comments before I post mine??

 

[Jeff Morgan]

Did anyone go to Thursday Night public meeting for QQE as I love to hear the comments before I post mine??

There are a few comments about the event on the Quayside forum.

 

[drum118]

Oct 23
Totally a joke for QQE and more on it later on as there is another white elephant in the picture.

Some quotes from Quayside forum.

By DSCToronto
The work going on now at QQE and Small Street (See @GameOnBrad photos above) is (partly) for the LRT as it will provide source of traction power. See: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.EX25.3 The work on Cherry and Commissioners saw the transit bridge built over the Keating and the empty ROW for the streetcars on east side of Cherry and the south side of Commissioners. WT are certainly trying to avoid having to dig up anything again for LRT.

By Start Fox
To echo the above re: the QQE LRT, they stated that 60% design would be complete July 2026, with construction starting in 2026 (I think? maybe misremembering that part) and service starting "early 2030s". They certainly seemed to hint that government funding was coming in 2026 during the presentation, and I also talked to a WT employee and they were coy but seemed to agree. They also said some of the work going on for Quayside infrastructure right now actually has work for the QQE LRT being done as well, so that it doesn't need to be torn up again.

By Diablo1983
Furthermore, given all 3 levels of government fund WT and all 3 levels of government fund transit (historically), why wasn’t WT just given the money to do the whole thing in the first place so that it’s done as communities like Bayside came online vs forcing people to be stuck in traffic or sub-par transit options for more than a decade before any glimpse of hope? Transit needs to go in as these communities are built - not the other way around. Look at what happens when a transit line goes in - all of the developers start building around them the moment they are announced - the funding model has it backwards.