Allandale25
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I'm getting really sick of these slick-yet-empty videos from Metrolinx. We did "lots of work"...Uhh, great: what was the total scope, and how much did you accomplish in that given time period? It's a construction project so you are tracking that stuff, why can't you share it in any more detail than an effing TikTok. It's absurd and embarrassing when you get that, yet there are trees growing out of untamped / unbalasted track at a new / "soon to be open" station.Interesting video re: the Stouffville closure last weekend. No mention of the famous missing bridge, but I can check later in the week.
Yeah it's pretty difficult to swallow these self-congratulatory posts about completing infrastructure while the infrastructure in question is still completely unusable.I'm getting really sick of these slick-yet-empty videos from Metrolinx. We did "lots of work"...Uhh, great: what was the total scope, and how much did you accomplish in that given time period? It's a construction project so you are tracking that stuff, why can't you share it in any more detail than an effing TikTok. It's absurd and embarrassing when you get that, yet there are trees growing out of untamped / unbalasted track at a new / "soon to be open" station.
I'd rather they build some of these things early than wait till later when it becomes more expensive to build them.
People are constantly complaining about something like the Eglinton subway having been canceled and filled in, and then we went back and built an LRT years later for way more money (and it's still not done). So yes there is some maintenance for the tunnels and platforms, but at least we won't have to wait for them to be built at that later time.
Overall yes, they could be lining things up a bit better but we don't know the exact constraints they're dealing with. I find it hard to believe that they're dragging things out on purpose. Incompetence, sure.
And the fourth platform remains consequently unusable. An 8-track signal gantry that was built near Queen St in 2014 was torn down recently without ever having had the signals turned on. The 409 tunnels are not being used because other work has fallen off the schedule, and not because the plan called for them to happen first.
This one?
Re: ML intransigence and general incompetence: BOY, ISN'T THAT FUNNY?!?!
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/pr...cle_df708d0c-5016-11ef-be48-5308b787df04.html
Considering the fact that its summer 2024 and it has yet to open, I feel like he did the right thing hereAccording to emails obtained through a freedom of information request, the provincial transit agency supported releasing the estimated completion date in the summer of 2023, and was actively planning to do so when Ford’s office shut it down.
I believe so. No doubt it's a precursor to work on the Liberty station, and its removal would likely be necessary in any event. But I would have felt better if we'd gotten a decade's use out of it before that happened.
- Paul