Nov 1

Traffic is a single lane going south on Hurontario including access to the QEW, with traffic real backup to the Queensway.

The removal of the dirt left behind to get the box into position for Sunday is being remove and should all done by the weekend. This will allow the building of the missing section that is to line up with the existing bridge on the south side.

The box was moving a meter per hour and this allow the removal of the QEW a few hours in front of the box move.

The full box couldn't be built due site restriction as well interfering with traffic during the building of the box as well getting it into position. 2 of the westbound off ramp would had to be close during the construction of the box and only one lane would be open for the eastbound traffic during the moving of the box which MTO did not want to see at all.

Removal of equipment for the push and the box is underway.

This box move will give everyone hand on training for the Port Credit Box move, when every that is to happen. Every date I have seen and heard has been miss by a mile. April was the first date and the last one was Oct.

Excavation is underway for removing the dirt in the Mary Fix Creek to allow the building of the bridge supports. The hydro pole that was in the way for the forming of the wall has been removed. Move of the wires have been strung on the new taller hydro polos on the east side that are further east of the new street layout.

Some unedited shots taken today. No idea when they and the rest will be up on my site
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felix123 said:
Ain't nobody gonna call this thing the "Hazel McCallion LRT" except maybe the Ford family, who are inexplicably obsessed with her and who will also never ride it.

Hazel will call it the "me LRT", I guess.
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I give it even money she never sees it open, honestly. She's 101.
 
Coruscanti Cognoscente said:
There's literally no signage anywhere for Highway 10 in Mississauga. If you're referring to Caledon, then sure. How people still even know it was called Hwy 10 at one point is beyond me.
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Lived in Brampton as a kid and everyone knew Main Street, Highway 10, and Hurontario were the same street.
It's like asking how people even still know it was called the SkyDome at one point. People know because that's what everyone calls it.
 
Ummmm I was a bit surprised that the use of the phrase Highway 10 would require correction. I would identify with Mercury, 10 was 10, everyone knew what 5 and 10 stood for, and the Lakeshore was either the Lakeshore or 2. Hurontario did not seem to get used much actually, but then again, 10 was a highway, not the site of a light rail project. I can remember going to a farm on 10, north of Cooksville and the rail line to look at cattle with my grandfather. I was pretty young, but for years afterwords I could identify that farmhouse as it became a developers land bank and was eventually bulldozed through neglect. I guess older habits linger on.
 
just east of the creek said:
Ummmm I was a bit surprised that the use of the phrase Highway 10 would require correction. I would identify with Mercury, 10 was 10, everyone knew what 5 and 10 stood for, and the Lakeshore was either the Lakeshore or 2. Hurontario did not seem to get used much actually, but then again, 10 was a highway, not the site of a light rail project. I can remember going to a farm on 10, north of Cooksville and the rail line to look at cattle with my grandfather. I was pretty young, but for years afterwords I could identify that farmhouse as it became a developers land bank and was eventually bulldozed through neglect. I guess older habits linger on.
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It's fine, we should never forget what Harris took away from us.
 
T3G said:
Doesn't pretty much everyone who doesn't live in Peel Region call it Hurontario?

I certainly had no idea what the original post referring to Hwy 10 was alluding to without a Google Search.
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I've not heard it called 10 in Brampton or Mississauga by anyone outside the transit geek community in many years. Some here weren't even born when it was last Highway 10 - sometime last century.

Looking at an official map of Peel; these days 10 is Boivard, and 5 is Derry. So 5 and 10 (if it's not dime store) don't mean.
 
Older people may still call it highway 10. But no one I personally know has any idea that Dundas was Hwy 5 and Lakeshore was Hwy 2. I didn't even know that until much later in life. I imagine those roads had those designations even longer ago than Hurontario did.
 
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