DonValleyRainbow
Senior Member
You're telling me UT'ers are congesting the area.A lot of the current drivers are sight-seeing through the intersections.
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You're telling me UT'ers are congesting the area.A lot of the current drivers are sight-seeing through the intersections.
This is why I'm sceptical of projects which promise a "limited shutdown of specified duration for make great benefit people of Toronto" since the reply is invariably a deluge of "We don't like even a little inconvenience, and your project will overrun anyway"Reading the comments here and elsewhere about the delays in the area, I don't disagree that things suck there right now. No one is going anywhere fast, at least not during the daylight hours.
But to call it a "failure" when quite literally 50% of the project hasn't been built yet is a bit hasty.
This is why I'm sceptical of projects which promise a "limited shutdown of specified duration for make great benefit people of Toronto" since the reply is invariably a deluge of "We don't like even a little inconvenience, and your project will overrun anyway"
You're telling me UT'ers are congesting the area.
Roadworks sure come down faster than they go up!
Does anybody remember when the renewal of all those bridges happened? Or how much that project cost? Demolition is unavoidable if the city centre is to proceed, but I can’t escape the feeling that we are demolishing things that only just got rebuilt. Maybe it’s longer ago than I think - time passes quickly. Just hate to see new money spent before end of life.
- Paul
In the absence of any firm plans or funding commitments to reconfigure the interchange, a program to rehabilitate the interchange was initiated in 1996 in response to concerns regarding the age and physical condition of bridges within the interchange. All existing bridges were subsequently rehabilitated between 1998 and 2000. (p. 5)
^ Wow - time sure flies by. Twenty years of use isn’t so terrible, although if we replaced all our infrastructure that frequently it would be very expensive. I envy other parts of the world where road and sidewalk stones are a century old, or more.
- Paul
Be careful what you wish for - parts of the world where road and sidewalk stones are a century old probably are also areas that have seen little development activities on the ground. Unless the area is historical, it isn't a good problem to have.
AoD
Probably more than a decade ago - I remember them tearing down bridges that were in really sad shape and the new ones going on the way to Islington. Ah ha - from my post back in 2007:
Roads: Six Points Interchange Reconfiguration (City of Toronto, UC)
For all those who wondered why the empty land west of the police station remained undeveloped despite all the condos going up around it, the reason was that it was for snow storage :rolleyes:.urbantoronto.ca
Ah the good ol' days, when the Bell office building wasn't a butchered ugly condo, Bloor-Islington place wasnt painted black, and who could ever forget about the giant snow mountains! These were around the times I took my driver's ed course inside the old Westwood theaters.View attachment 175827
I, for one, will miss those snow mountains.