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But will it be able to handle two-way GO Midtown service? Or will they have to return to redo the bridge at some later date?

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From link.

See the GO Transit Midtown Corridor thread at this link.
 
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^ If you look at Google Maps streetview at the location, you could get a sense on if the abutments would have to be expanded to add more truss structures. The existing bridge can only has two tracks.
 
^ If you look at Google Maps streetview at the location, you could get a sense on if the abutments would have to be expanded to add more truss structures. The existing bridge can only has two tracks.

Two tracks is plenty for GO Midtown line.

It would only happen if the Missing Link with CP happened anyways.
 
We've just put up a helluva story on the front page about how the underpinning of Line 1 was accomplished at Yonge and the Allen Road.


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Two tracks is plenty for GO Midtown line.

It would only happen if the Missing Link with CP happened anyways.
Dream on as it not going to happen in your life time. Need 5 tracks if you want express trains, otherwise 2 for CP and 2 for GO. Every upgrades taking place is allowing for 4 tracks.
 

Posting the pic here for those who don't see Twitter previews:

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Funny observation to me.........I've been annoyed that the Class 1s, CN and CP long ago stopped painting their bridges for the most part.

Shows a lack of pride to me.

Here, we have a public contractor apparently spending government money to restore the privately owned CP bridge.............but Metrolinx doesn't routinely paint the bridges they own.

How odd.
 
What about the fright trains? Need one or two tracks for non-GO trains.

fright trains only operate on October 31st so its not much of an issue.

For freight trains, like I said, this will only happen if the Missing Link happens, aka removing CP entirely off this line. Its their mainline, they own it, and they will not let GO on it, and the cost they are asking to build more tracks for GO (GO doesnt own the corridor they have to pay CP to build infrastructure, and even run the GO trains, GO trains on the CP Milton corridor are driven by CP engineers) is cost prohibitive. Its basically their way of saying no.

So the only way you will ever see GO trains on this line is if the Missing Link happens, which also is very expensive, but it means no freight trains on this line, so 2 tracks is fine.
 
We've just put up a helluva story on the front page about how the underpinning of Line 1 was accomplished at Yonge and the Allen Road.


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I just want to commend Robert Mackenzie and anyone else at UT involved in creating this piece. Really excellent work!
 
No worries. Now that they've created a right-of-way, they can spend a billion or so in the future to tear up the line and put in viaducts. While at that, they can spend perhaps half a billion to fix the Leslie/Eglinton intersection. (all figures are wild estimates)

Fixing this intersection is simple, force cars to turn right and then take a u turn once the LRT is underground
 
The front-page article was fascinating - shows how much more complicated the Crosstowns when compared to a "greenfield" subway extension like TYSSE...

Im very curious, when they were building line 2 under bloor station, did they have the same problems the crosstown lrt is experiencing?
 
Im very curious, when they were building line 2 under bloor station, did they have the same problems the crosstown lrt is experiencing?
Some of the Eglinton problems have been that they found things they weren't expecting.

Keep in mind Eglinton and Bloor station were both designed and construction started in the late 1940s.

When they came to design Yonge station in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the people who designed and built Bloor station were still on staff working elsewhere. And that's not true a half-century later.
 

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