Red Mars
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Thu Jun 25, 2020
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Midtown Urbanist
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CIBC Square and The Well may grab the headlines at the moment, but this is very exciting development too!
bilked
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someMidTowner
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Crane collapse on the news, looks like this site.
AHK
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Crane accident at 160 Front site.
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Not quite a collapse, crane hit a building:
aznih_aznih
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Hope no one is hurt.
Will this mean a shut down in construction while the province investigates?
Will this mean a shut down in construction while the province investigates?
DSC
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Undoubtedly.
This from CP24.
Buildings evacuated after crane smashes into office tower in downtown Toronto
Three buildings in Toronto’s Entertainment District have been evacuated following a crane collapse.
www.cp24.com
Towered
Superstar
How can this happen? Cranes don't exactly move fast, and the operator knows that building is there...
someMidTowner
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Could be anything. Maybe the operator had a medical episode, maybe the crane controls malfunctioned. The imminent MOL investigation will figure it out eventually
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It could also have just collapsed while over that part of the site.
DarkSideDenizen
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It's possible the crane operator saw the collapse/malfunction coming and then acted quickly to move the boom over the neighbouring building in order to protect her co-workers on the ground. They do plan for emergency contingencies.
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It does appear to be resting on the neighbouring building's roof, no glass immediately below it seems to be smashed.
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A number of IGUs were broken. The video accompanying the CP24 link above best shows the damage.
International Gastronomy Unions? Ill-prepared Graduate Undertakings? Interpolated Geometrical Umbrellas? Intentional Guitar Underpinnings? Interdependent Gelform Unguents? Inflamed Goat Udders? Integrated Gas Utilities? Island Guest Units? Illegitimate Garbage Uplinks? Instant Gyoza Users? Inferred Gastric Ubiquities? Insulated Guppy Undergarments? Interesting Grecian Urns? Ill-Gotten Unctions? Intermittent Gastrointestinal Urges? Iridescent Green Uvulae? Inter-species Groping Ulcers? Irascible Georgian Understudies? Instantaneous Gassy Utterances? Ignominious Garden Ukuleles? In-Grown Ultrasonics? Insubstantial Geriatric Unmentionables? Ill-mannered Garrulous Ushers? Inglorious German U-boats? Iterative Geodesic Underlays? Insatiable Galloping Unicorns? Insurmountable Galactic Unknowns? Irredeemably Guilty Undertakers? (No, nothing so obvious.)
Strangely, acronyms just are not helpful on a public forum where members may not actually spend their days on construction sites.
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