Allandale25
Senior Member
I can't remember what it's called, but someone here posts when it's available the GO capital works procurement chart. I can't recall when the last one was posted. Maybe @Northern Light or @crs1026 remember.
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I can't remember what it's called, but someone here posts when it's available the GO capital works procurement chart. I can't recall when the last one was posted. Maybe @Northern Light or @crs1026 remember.
lastcommodore
Active Member
No timeline is given but the grade separation for KI and Guelph second tracks are listed as the next thing to be built on the KI corridor.
Sauga89
Active Member
crs1026
Superstar
These projects seem to be bogged down in procurement. Every time an outlook is issued, the tender dates have slipped. Here is the latest from late last year. The dates shown are RFP publication dates, meaning shovels will not hit the ground for even longer.
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APTA-2048
Senior Member
Noticed some actual progress in the LSE corridor past Danforth near Greenwood Yard. They have put down some ties and rails.
ShonTron
Moderator
Yeah, the Heritage Road layover is making good progress. That’s essential before work can be done to end the slow zone through Georgetown (with the yard there being transformed into a proper through station) and I imagine the CN-GO grade separation will follow as well.
I hope that work is quickly started once Heritage opens.
nfitz
Superstar
While ultimately the 4th track, what's driving that early work is a siding for storage.
kotsy
Senior Member
Lakeshore East corridor updates from this weekend
East Harbour Station:
Eastern bridge rebuild
Dundas bridge rebuild
Logan bridge rebuild
East Harbour Station:
Eastern bridge rebuild
Dundas bridge rebuild
Logan bridge rebuild
drum118
Superstar
When did GO personal at stations been rebuilt with only haft of the platform open started to use the hand paddle like Europe to inform the train crews that they can close the doors and depart???
I noticed this today shooting Long Branch GO station and it wasn't in use back in Nov and Dec 2025 when I was at the station. I guess this is why the train sat longer than normal compared to the past. Haven't seen this at other haft platform station as well.
I noticed this today shooting Long Branch GO station and it wasn't in use back in Nov and Dec 2025 when I was at the station. I guess this is why the train sat longer than normal compared to the past. Haven't seen this at other haft platform station as well.
drum118
Superstar
Feb 14
More up on my site
The trail has been reopen under the new bridges
The first bridge I seen this type of bracing used on it.
Tracks 1 & 2 are sitting on pedistool due the smaller depth of the new bridges compared to what was there before. They will be encase in concrete. Never noticed pedistool while shooting but noticed them when I worked on the photos.
She had the paddle up while zooming in but down when I shot.
More up on my site
The trail has been reopen under the new bridges
The first bridge I seen this type of bracing used on it.
Tracks 1 & 2 are sitting on pedistool due the smaller depth of the new bridges compared to what was there before. They will be encase in concrete. Never noticed pedistool while shooting but noticed them when I worked on the photos.
She had the paddle up while zooming in but down when I shot.
smallspy
Senior Member
They had a number of close calls in the fall, so they added staff to supervise loading and unloading on the platforms around that time.
Dan
drum118
Superstar
I noticed that.
In the past there were only two or three if I recall correctly but 5 or 6 this time. It was the paddle that got me as its the first I have seen in NA. Very common or used to be in Europe and not found in a lot of heavy volume main stations in 2022. Wounder who at ML decided to use the paddle and will come standard for future station haft platforms?
vistaway
Active Member
Current state of the
Burloak grade separation on LSW. Actively removing dirt from the approach to the new underpass now.
WB62
Senior Member
The paddles have been around for a couple years now, from one of metrolinxs promo videos:
“You may see me with a baton or raised hand as the doors are closing. This means no further boarding and the train is about to depart.”
There’s also a process that customer service staff do without a paddle, which can be seen throughout this video:
At and outside of Long Branch GO I’ve almost never seen staff doing this, really not sure why it was adopted if it wasn’t tied into actual operations
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Fritter
Active Member
Not all stations received the paddles at the same time, and enforcement of policy is at different levels at different stations. Some tenured Station Ambassadors question the wisdom of holding these flashing badminton rackets when a vast majority of Canadian passengers would have no clue of their purpose. Metrolinx brass assume practices from Europe or Asia can seamlessly integrate into North American norms instantly without studying if they would work here.