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Northern Light said:
Are they putting the tracks in an ROW?

I know they looked at extending an ROW from Fleet to Queen. They really should!

While they're at it..........eliminate parking on Bathurst, put in cycle tracks from Front to Queen.

North of Queen, eliminate parking and put in a tree-lined boulevard between the sidewalk and the curb; and create a bike lane, all the way to Bloor (for a start).
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The planned track work is on Bathurst from Front going south over the bridge and will remain where it is now AFIK. There is another plan to move the track to west side of Bathurst south of the bridge (creating a ROW) but I do not think this is finally approved nor being done while the bridge work is done. (They are also replacing track north of Queen but again, AFIK, it will be back where it is.)

This from TTC site:

"What we are doing and why
Preliminary rail welding work will be conducted in advance of two streetcar track renewal projects on Bathurst Street later this year by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) and City of Toronto. The work includes the rehabilitation of the City Bridge south of Front Street and the track section between Dundas Street and Wolseley Street. *Construction details/dates will be provided in future notices prior to the start of each project.

In addition to the above, the TTC will undertake streetcar track renewal work at the Bathurst Station streetcar loop. The City will also be carrying out watermain work between Front Street and Queen Street."
 
DSC said:
The planned track work is on Bathurst from Front going south over the bridge and will remain where it is now AFIK. There is another plan to move the track to west side of Bathurst south of the bridge (creating a ROW) but I do not think this is finally approved nor being done while the bridge work is done. (They are also replacing track north of Queen but again, AFIK, it will be back where it is.)

This from TTC site:

"What we are doing and why
Preliminary rail welding work will be conducted in advance of two streetcar track renewal projects on Bathurst Street later this year by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) and City of Toronto. The work includes the rehabilitation of the City Bridge south of Front Street and the track section between Dundas Street and Wolseley Street. *Construction details/dates will be provided in future notices prior to the start of each project.

In addition to the above, the TTC will undertake streetcar track renewal work at the Bathurst Station streetcar loop. The City will also be carrying out watermain work between Front Street and Queen Street."
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To create the ROW on the west side of Bathurst from Fort York to the QQW and part of QQW not on the south side has to have an EA done for it. That still on the back burner at this time and would had been a good time to do it with this closure.

This will including closing Fleet to traffic 100% and rebuilding the T connection for the new ROW, as well 3 meter platforms.

The Bathurst tracks for the new ROW will start shifting to the west at Fort York and will have its own signals to move to/from the ROW and hope its the bar ones.
 
Dundas Street West used to have a streetcar track right-of-way on the north side of Dundas Street West, east of Sorauren Avenue and west of St. Helen's Avenue (College Street). They got rid of the right-of-way for "traffic improvements" for the automobile. Typical.

From link.

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West over the tracks at Lansdowne, 1936

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The old bridge over the rail tracks at Sterling Road, roughly where the West Toronto Railpath starts/ends today, in 1931.

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Dundas West and Sterling in 1937.

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Pre-reconfiguration Dundas West and Sorauren, looking west, 1936.
 
The water tower on the right in the first picture - is that where the Nestle factory is, or where the French high school is?
 
Towered said:
The water tower on the right in the first picture - is that where the Nestle factory is, or where the French high school is?
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I think it's where the Nestle factory is – from that angle, the French school would be out of frame, further to the right, I think?
 
The Bathurst Street Bridge reconstruction has started - Bathurst is now closed between Front Street and Fort York Boulevard. The streetcar overhead wires have been removed from this stretch, and only the west side sidewalk is open.


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Detail showing overhead wires removed from the Bathurst Street Bridge superstructure.

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W. K. Lis said:
Still waiting for the plans for a streetcar right-of-way south of Front Street West on Bathurst Street.
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The reset team I was part of supported and recommend the change in 2018/19, but up to the City to call for an EA to do it. With the COVID-19 mess, may happen in 2022 if the City has the funds to do it with the current short fall. TTC tracks from Lakeshore to the road crossover on QQ are schedule to be replace 2022-2025 and that been known for over 10 years. I call for moving QQ centre tracks to the south that are still currently there when we started writing the EA for the current QQ redevelopment and TTC said then no as it didn't have the money to do it as well tracks were to be replace until around 2022.

Love to see it happen in the next few years, but at the rate the City is building Transit on the Waterfront or City wide, don't plan to see it happen any time soon. Don't know when we will hear about the change for the east end that may show up in June.
 
DSC said:
That was never part of this project, though it would obviously have been better to do everything at once.
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You Think...................The way the flat wheels work in the city for transits, could be decades before it happens, but this year would had been nice to see it happen. The traffic department most likely said "too many Lanes to have close and too much traffic force to use Lake Shore"
 
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