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New lighting is up on both sides of the section under construction. They removed the temp lighting hung from wooden posts today, and the mesh fence. The city site says final paving of the last section will take place in 2 weeks.

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I suspect we will see the lane shift late October, then November spent working on the central median and December seeing 3 lanes open again.

The lane shift was in place today, I was on the outside lanes instead of the middle going eastbound today. It was after 6am so past the nightly closure.
 
I don't use the Gardiner often, have they started the next phase (3 of 7) Humber to 427? And also, any idea on when phase 4 starts, the Grand Magazine to York section? The website isn't super up to date.

 
I don't use the Gardiner often, have they started the next phase (3 of 7) Humber to 427? And also, any idea on when phase 4 starts, the Grand Magazine to York section? The website isn't super up to date.

I drove tha section westbound on the weekend and work is taking place in the westbound lane and at the bridges. Don't drive the Gardner much these days as its too stressful.
 
I don't use the Gardiner often, have they started the next phase (3 of 7) Humber to 427? And also, any idea on when phase 4 starts, the Grand Magazine to York section? The website isn't super up to date.

I think there is a lot of questions on next stages with the upload to the province.

The City has started on some of the bridge work for Phase 3, but the whole project is not yet underway. I'm most interested in Phase 3 as the City was planning to make some geometric changes on that part of the Gardiner about a decade ago (changes to the Kipling and Islington interchanges, the collector lanes, and adding a lane from Park Lawn to the collectors) and I'm not sure if those are still happening or not.

There generally isn't a lot of transparency on the Gardiner program and it's having a lot of schedule slippage in general. Originally it was all supposed to be done by 2029.. I think they will be lucky to have Phase 3 done by that time at the rate they are moving.
 
I don't use the Gardiner often, have they started the next phase (3 of 7) Humber to 427? And also, any idea on when phase 4 starts, the Grand Magazine to York section? The website isn't super up to date.

They have only advanced work on five bridges within section 3. These bridges require urgent attention before the rest of the section commences construction in 2027.

 
I think there is a lot of questions on next stages with the upload to the province.

The City has started on some of the bridge work for Phase 3, but the whole project is not yet underway. I'm most interested in Phase 3 as the City was planning to make some geometric changes on that part of the Gardiner about a decade ago (changes to the Kipling and Islington interchanges, the collector lanes, and adding a lane from Park Lawn to the collectors) and I'm not sure if those are still happening or not.

There generally isn't a lot of transparency on the Gardiner program and it's having a lot of schedule slippage in general. Originally it was all supposed to be done by 2029.. I think they will be lucky to have Phase 3 done by that time at the rate they are moving.
The transparency won't be around for much longer. When the province uploads the expressway ,expect to hear nothing. Enjoy what little information we do get.

Also with the upload, they should also upload Lake Shore Blvd. Apparently that's the biggest hurdle to finalizing the upload. If the province uploads the Lake Shore where the Gardiner runs above it, it makes future maintenance work much easier to work through.
 
Thank God. The GO bus has been an even more unpleasant experience than in previous years because of this.
 
yes. It's a shame the lane closure at Park Lawn is continuing until May so there will still be lane restrictions on the Gardiner as a whole, albeit now only in one direction and in a spot where it's overall less impactful.
 

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