You may be interested to know there’s a production civic model that puts many high-end automakers to shame with its impressive Nürburgring lap time. It holds the lap record for FWD cars.

Moreover there’s no chance of a future subway station any closer, and more deserving of the Chinatown station moniker.

Odd to see what looks like a permanent structure going up where the future TOC will be. So I passed by at lunch and asked a rather cheery worker by the gate. He said it’s temporary, for the duration of station construction. He also referred to it a station mock up, which sounds a bit...

Tom from Tom’s Place Station

Case in point – you called it Chinatown. It is THE chinatown.

King West is a neighbourhood. Chinatown is just as immovable as distillery district.

Caught another one Sunday night, just a block away. 3rd beached whale I’ve witnessed in the last 8 months, this one made it the furthest.

More work today on the Adelaide track extension from Parliament. The position of cuts in the street suggests a permanent curb is being installed. There is also a dedicated left turn signal being installed at Parliament since this will conflict with cyclists travelling straight through Adelaide...

Quite the construction and engineering excellence on the southern civil team, unfortunately the same can’t be said across all contracts. Technically EEB at Ordnance, but probably not a great photo-op.

Nope! No misunderstanding, yes embarrassing.

Here’s the info from their brochure (link): The renders of what could be are very rock n roll themed.

It could really only be this tiny retaining wall fronting Don Mills Rd. We truly need permits to do anything.

Front St sidewalk is very nearly done, still fenced off though.

Order of operations does seem bizarre, I imagine the roof structure will just get in the way. But the foundation doesn’t look all that deep compared to other new GO stations. For example:

Yes, I saw this from Eastern earlier today as well. With better context of location, it is definitely an island platform canopy. Also just noticed Kotsy’s birds-eye pic from Wednesday shows it:

Yes they have been shoring. Hard to see in most demo photos here, this one is probably best: I walked by on Sunday morning and you can see the pit growing from Adelaide as well, though there is hoarding covering most of that side.

Enhance connectivity by extending the streetcar up to Queen? Line 1 already does this at far greater capacity. South of Union an at grade alignment would need to cross Lake Shore and Harbour, among the longest signals downtown. A car free / car-lite Bay st with wider walking space sounds great...

From instagram - japan_embassy_canada:

Looks like bubble deck. See: Voided Biaxial Slab