[rdaner]

Is the bridge portion at the entrance to the slip going ahead? All of the news I have heard has been concerning the slip with very little about the bridge.

 

[MetroMan]

Yes, the bridges are coming. I believe they start construction on that after the slip deck.

 

[catcher_of_cats]

I think that the bridges will start construction in the fall after the tourist season.

 

[Colin]

they released this timeline in October, guess they are starting the bridge sometime 2009

http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/dbdocs//4703a8ea7e764.pdf

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

From Waterfrontoronto:

http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/dbdocs//47fb80ebb9c46.pdf

AoD

 

[MetroMan]

they released this timeline in October, guess they are starting the bridge sometime 2009

http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/dbdocs//4703a8ea7e764.pdf

No, the bridge is to be "delivered" (completed) by 2009. All points to construction beginning in the fall this year.

Construction will also begin at the end of 2008 on the Peter, Rees and Simcoe slips.

 

[Kitsune]

What are they doing with Peter? Hopefully something to stop the flow of garbage into it.

 

[EnviroTO]

What are they doing with Peter? Hopefully something to stop the flow of garbage into it.

They need to clean that area more frequently. It is great that it collects in there making it easy to clean up but the benefit is lost if the city doesn't go in there frequently enough. I see all the ducks and swans swimming in there and feel sorry for them navigating pop cans and chip bags.

 

[Kitsune]

Not to mention the smell that goes with it on a hot summer day. What happened last year is the water level got too low for the trash collecter boat to get into the quay, its rebounded quite nicely this spring however, but no sign of that boat.

 

[drum118]

 

[EnviroTO]

The guy in the second pic looks confused by the plan. Maybe that is why it is taking so long. Looks like in might be ready by the end of summer.

 

[MetroMan]

That timber is sweeeet!

I love how West8's plan is impressive and different yet very easy to implement.

Had we chosen the Foster proposal (which I liked very much), I doubt we'd be any closer to building those tear drop shaped buildings on the ends of slips and little canals of water from the financial district to the lake...

It looks like with the ease of implementation of these ends of slips and bridges we'll have a drastically improved central waterfront in half the time it took to build Toronto Life Square (Getting my TLS punches in where Caltrane won't see them... tee hee!)

I remember Adrian Geuze talking about how the bridges and end of slip decks were one design and how it was easy to modify the initial template to fit the different slips and quays without modifying the process to build them. This saved time and money because they were all designed at once.

 

[bar1967]

This is going to be amazing when done!!!

 

[jn_12]

The wood smells fantastic too. That whole area this week was spruced up for summer. Workers were in the wetlands and Music Garden trimming and manicuring.

I kept meaning to bring my camera to take pictures on my way to work because it seemed like things were changing daily.

 

[Dan416]

The wood smells fantastic too. That whole area this week was spruced up for summer. Workers were in the wetlands and Music Garden trimming and manicuring.

I kept meaning to bring my camera to take pictures on my way to work because it seemed like things were changing daily.

But how long will the wood actually have that nice new wood smell?