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- Thread starter Allandale25
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smallspy
Senior Member
The completion date does not specify when the project will be ready to use (in most cases). It specifies when the entirety of the project is complete and when the site(s) has been demobilized and returned to its final condition.
It wouldn't surprise me if the path was allowed to be used considerably sooner than the completion date, with the remaining months being used to finish things like landscaping.
Dan
Andy_in_Toronto
Active Member
Embarrassing slow progress. When is this tunnel finally constructed?
H4F33Z
Active Member
This trail is taking about as long as a subway project… really sad honestly.
Northern Light
Superstar
Metrolinx is the primary driver of the delays in this phase. They control the dates available for working over/under their rail corridor, and they are the ones who demanded the tunnel and grossly over-built bridge structure.
They have added considerable time and cost to this project as they do to so many.
smallspy
Senior Member
October, as I understand it.
And as Northern Light correctly points out above, the factor is entirely trying to coordinate with Metrolinx.
Dan
Metroscapes
Active Member
Just to put a timeline forward for Phase 1:
- The EA was completed in December 2016 (7 years 9 months ago)
- EA appeals were rejected in August 2017 (+8 months)
- First drawings for tender completed October 2017 (+2 months)
- Construction starts September 2018 (+11 months); original completion target December 2019 (1 year 3 months)
- New notice issued September 2019 (+1 year); target slips to December 2020 (2 year 3 months)
- New notice issued February 2020 (+5 months); target quoted as "late Fall 2020"
- New web post July 2020 (+5 months); target slips to "end of 2021, pending design, tendering, and construction of [tunnel and bridge]" (3 years 3 months)
- New web post December 2020 (+5 months); target still for end of 2021
- New web post June 2021 (+6 months); construction of bridge / tunnel slated for "Spring 2022"; target slips to "Summer 2022" (3 years ~9 months)
- New web post August 2022 (+1 year 2 months); construction of bridge / tunnel slated for "end of 2022"; target slips to "Spring/Summer 2023" (4 years ~9 months)
- New web post March 2023 (+7 months); construction of bridge / tunnel "scheduled to commence in late February" aka a week or two prior to the post?!; target slips to November 2023 (5 years 2 months)
- New web post November 2023 (+8 months); construction of bridge commences, tunnel segments delivered; target slips "into 2024" (~6 years?)
- New web post June 2024 (+7 months); construction of bridge substantially complete, track closure dates secured for Fall 2024 to facilitate the installation of the tunnel; no completion target given (6+ years)
TwinHuey
Active Member
Ben Aylsworth
New Member
FYI the Bermondsey Access road is now paved.
In terms of completion date: I have been told by someone close to this, that this project's completion date has been pushed back a year. Fall 2025 is when the tunnel is expected to be completed. Which is quite disappointing. If I understand correctly the city is also now looking to push this trail section further north to terminate at the north side of Eglinton (so under the bridge and up via the access road). I am told the city is keen to start that work as soon as possible. If you've walked the 'Kitchen Sink' trail this summer you might have seen flags and stakes, which I believe is the intended route, but don't know for certain.
In terms of completion date: I have been told by someone close to this, that this project's completion date has been pushed back a year. Fall 2025 is when the tunnel is expected to be completed. Which is quite disappointing. If I understand correctly the city is also now looking to push this trail section further north to terminate at the north side of Eglinton (so under the bridge and up via the access road). I am told the city is keen to start that work as soon as possible. If you've walked the 'Kitchen Sink' trail this summer you might have seen flags and stakes, which I believe is the intended route, but don't know for certain.
leopetr
Active Member
Connecting the "Kitchen Sink" unofficial trail would be excellent. We'd finally have a safe offroad connection from downtown to the rainbow tunnel! The city done a nice job expanding the little network around the rainbow tunnel, and it'll be great to finally have it as part of the larger system
Metroscapes
Active Member
mburrrrr
Senior Member
How many years did they need to figure that out and schedule it?
DSC
Superstar
FAR too many!!
Northern Light
Superstar
To extract a salient bit here.......... they needed to reroute utilities prior to the tunnel work; they failed to get that done.
The question, is why?
TRCA would not normally move hydro infra, hydro or its contractors would be brought in for that........
If so......were they unable to deliver on time, or were they delayed from coming in by TRCA and/or Mx?
It would be nice if someone were accountable for the latest in an endless series of delays.
I'm not even asking for anyone to lose their job........just own up to the mistake and apologize, that would be a start.
Metroscapes
Active Member
I presented the updates without comment because I don't know who to point the finger at, but if I were a betting man...