[dundasbloke]

Can we start a betting competition for crosstown lrt opening date? Everyone posts their best guess and whoever is closest wins! Could be a nice way to add some fun to this thread.

Edit: win as in win bragging rights

 

[JasonParis]

I'm going on the optimistic side and saying that Line 5 and 6 both open on Monday, September 16, 2024. That's six months from today!

 

[mburrrrr]

Can we start a betting competition for crosstown lrt opening date? Everyone posts their best guess and whoever is closest wins! Could be a nice way to add some fun to this thread.

Edit: win as in win bragging rights

3 months after June 21.

 

[dundasbloke]

I'm going on the optimistic side and saying that Line 5 and 6 both open on Monday, September 16, 2024. That's six months from today!

the September opening date does sound very convincing to me as a target for Metrolinx. I honestly think they may be shooting for September as well. Schools open, students return to the city, traffic congestion is usually pretty high.

But I am going to guess Monday, November 4, 2024

Im thinking that Metrolinx wants to open in September but there will be inevitable delays that push them from that date.

 

[cplchanb]

I wonder if they'll ever address this difficiency. These 4 lights have been perpetually on 24/7 ever since they were installed about 5 years ago. Ice raised this to ML before via their X page but theve never looked into it...

 

[smallspy]

the September opening date does sound very convincing to me as a target for Metrolinx. I honestly think they may be shooting for September as well. Schools open, students return to the city, traffic congestion is usually pretty high.

But I am going to guess Monday, November 4, 2024

Im thinking that Metrolinx wants to open in September but there will be inevitable delays that push them from that date.

One thing to keep in mind.....

The opening date will be set by the TTC, not Metrolinx. They are the ones operating the line, and they will need to do their own testing and burn-in once they have been given the go-ahead by Metrolinx & Crosslinx. All Metrolinx & Crosslinx will announce is a hand-over date.

This also means that the opening date will likely occur on the start of a board period - which is always a Sunday.

Dan

 

[crs1026]

I wonder if they'll ever address this difficiency. These 4 lights have been perpetually on 24/7 ever since they were installed about 5 years ago. Ice raised this to ML before via their X page but theve never looked into it...

Don't assume that just because it isn't remedied, it hasn't been noted or examined. Five years is a long time, but even so - the cost of five years' wasted energy versus the cost of a day's delay in the project - I'm content if they are simply letting this one stand while they attack other things.

- Paul

 

[Islington Express Bus]

I'm going on the optimistic side and saying that Line 5 and 6 both open on Monday, September 16, 2024. That's six months from today!

If we're doing Price Is Right rules, I'll take September 17th.

 

[cplchanb]

Don't assume that just because it isn't remedied, it hasn't been noted or examined. Five years is a long time, but even so - the cost of five years' wasted energy versus the cost of a day's delay in the project - I'm content if they are simply letting this one stand while they attack other things.

- Paul

Considering the amount of electual work that's been done at that area since this deficiency first came about, they could have easily fit it in to the work orders if it was actually noted. Then again, this is CTS we're talking about here and construction management hasn't exactly been Their sharpest point

5 years and counting for addressing a deficiency as relatively simple as this is honestly very unacceptable Especially since They tore up and repaved brand new curbs Three times in this same Time span.

My honest guess is that the foreman is either too aloof or doesn't care enough to make this an issue to be fixed. Or it could be the underlying issue as described above.

 

[christiesplits]

I'm going on the optimistic side and saying that Line 5 and 6 both open on Monday, September 16, 2024. That's six months from today!

I think they stagger the openings to try and extend the much needed good press.

 

[Voltz]

I'm going for July 1st, three months after we can expect an announcement

 

[christiesplits]

Does anyone have a comparison of the cost of an average underground Crosstown station versus the bigger and more opulent York Spadina subway extension stations?

 

[Amare]

I think they stagger the openings to try and extend the much needed good press.

The only form of staggered opening you'll see is between the openings of the Crosstown West project and the core Crosstown project. Asides from that, there will be no staggered opening.

 

[dowlingm]

I think they stagger the openings to try and extend the much needed good press.

Perhaps not the good press so much as the bus routing changes

 

[dowlingm]

Does anyone have a comparison of the cost of an average underground Crosstown station versus the bigger and more opulent York Spadina subway extension stations?

Given the construction context, I doubt there are many points of comparison to make a cost comparison helpful. Many of the Crosstown stations are being constructed in difficult contexts with adjoining buildings needing to be underpinned, plus two interchanges with existing tunnels. What would the TYSSE equivalent of the Salvation Army premises re-building be?