I've been to all the grade crossings on the Stouffville Line south of Unionville recently and only Finch is in progress via the new station there. There is also Havendale Rd which needs to be closed with a ped bridge/tunnel built and Kennedy Rd north of Steeles where it jogs around the tracks...

It's still partially standing as of Sunday when I drove past it. I only saw them ripping apart the southern side.

Another CBC vid by Paige Saunders ft Reece Martin

I thought @reaperexpress did an analysis that showed they could run trains every 1/2 hour with the second meeting point being south of West Highland Creek bridge where the double tracking is basically complete all they way to Kennedy. At least that part would get used, and the upgraded stations...

I'm continuing to maintain my theory that the cutting of Stouffville all-day/weekend service had nothing to do with Stouffville and everything to do with the Joint Corridor aka LSE/Ontario Line. The progress on the Stouffville portion was negligible. But on the Joint Corridor section it's down...

That would make more sense then for designing the current platform height. Still sucks that a station opening in 2025 *still* has the old platform height. Every time we build a new station or renovate an old one, even if we design it to make retrofitting higher platforms easier, it adds $$, all...

I'm assuming that Exhibition station won't be open until the OL opens, so 2030 or later. I'm also assuming that the move to level boarding will be a transition, i.e. there will be rolling stock capable of handle both platform heights. The platform height design in Ex station tells me that ML is...

Uhhhh has anyone noticed that Exhibition station clearly looks like it does not have level boarding and is still on the current platform height??

Can a bunch of people tweet at Metrolinx and ask them what's going on with the bridge? I'm curious to see how they respond.

For reference, the same bridge 13 months ago.

As promised, here is a drone vid of the West Highland Creek Bridge (lack of) progress, taken last weekend.

I have a theory about the Stouffville service cuts. They were not for construction on the Stouffville line. They were for the Ontario Line/LSE Joint Corridor work. Most of the double tracking work on Stouffville was done before the cuts, and since the cuts almost nothing has been done. Meanwhile...

Without a double tracked West Highland Bridge the 2nd platforms at Agincourt and Milliken are useless. The crossovers are south of the bridge and north of Milliken. If this return to rush hour only service isn't to build the 2nd half of that bridge, I'm truly at a loss for understanding the...

The fact that the massive service cuts on Barrie and Stouffville were only announced with 2 weeks notice is shocking. This isn't a few trains here and there or a pandemic lockdown, it's a return to the 2018 days (on Stouffville at least) of rush hour only service. It's a cut of 20 train trips...

Doesn't that tie up valuable platform resources at Union with crews needing to walk the length of the train to drive the train back where it came from?

I'm having trouble seeing how VIA HFR/HSR would fit here. Presumably it's using the Richmond or Stouffville tracks, but there are no dead-end tracks for any of those. A VIA train doing a layover is going to block a through-running track, which will happen reasonably often given the whole "high...

As I mentioned in my reply to smallspy, I doubted our networks ability to do this right now. I figured putting signs at parts of the platform that say something like "Off-peak trains may be shorter and not reach this end of the platform - please walk towards the accessibility area". I...

It never happened. I thought about announcements/displays as reaperexpress suggested, but I guessed that might require a version of electronic train info communication that the network might not have right now. Can you provide any info on whether or not it is feasible to do that with the current...

As much as I liked the benefits of the 6 car consists, acceleration/deceleration/fuel savings, at Agincourt I could see a huge problem with them. Time and time again I saw people miss a train because they had no idea it would stop at the north end of the platform, far away from the station or...

It's unfortunate that some people don't realize that they are far more likely to be injured or killed in a car than on transit. Perceived safety and actual safety are frequently not the same thing.