[Aplus23]

From the recently updated Eglinton Complete Street Project website:

eglintonTOday Complete Street Project

City Council has approved the installation of eglintonTOday Complete Street Project on Eglinton Avenue West between Bicknell Avenue and Mount Pleasant Road. A copy of the Staff report is available at IE13.2 In 2014 City Council approved the Eglinton Connects Planning Study which articulated...

www.toronto.ca

According to Metrolinx, construction-related activities and equipment on the roadway will be removed by the end of April 2023, with the exception of Cedarvale Station (Allen Road interchange) and the section between Avenue Road and Yonge Street, which are anticipated to be completed in the summer of 2023.

Those are the only spots with equipment if I'm not mistaken

 

[cplchanb]

From the recently updated Eglinton Complete Street Project website:

eglintonTOday Complete Street Project

City Council has approved the installation of eglintonTOday Complete Street Project on Eglinton Avenue West between Bicknell Avenue and Mount Pleasant Road. A copy of the Staff report is available at IE13.2 In 2014 City Council approved the Eglinton Connects Planning Study which articulated...

www.toronto.ca

According to Metrolinx, construction-related activities and equipment on the roadway will be removed by the end of April 2023, with the exception of Cedarvale Station (Allen Road interchange) and the section between Avenue Road and Yonge Street, which are anticipated to be completed in the summer of 2023.

so can we say now that summer 2023 is the new target?

 

[eglinton1661]

Those are the only spots with equipment if I'm not mistaken

Yeah this is almost how Eglinton looks already. But I wonder if this means all the equipment from east of Yonge to Redpath Ave will be cleared too?

 

[turbanplanner]

so can we say now that summer 2023 is the new target?

won't it take 3 months for training and handover?

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

From the recently updated Eglinton Complete Street Project website:

eglintonTOday Complete Street Project

City Council has approved the installation of eglintonTOday Complete Street Project on Eglinton Avenue West between Bicknell Avenue and Mount Pleasant Road. A copy of the Staff report is available at IE13.2 In 2014 City Council approved the Eglinton Connects Planning Study which articulated...

www.toronto.ca

According to Metrolinx, construction-related activities and equipment on the roadway will be removed by the end of April 2023, with the exception of Cedarvale Station (Allen Road interchange) and the section between Avenue Road and Yonge Street, which are anticipated to be completed in the summer of 2023.

The Uni-directional cycle tracks is wrong. Should be combined into one duel-direction cycling track. Then emergency vehicles could use the duel-direction cycling tracks to bypass the single-occupant motorists. There is still time do it before April.

 

[Jane2021]

won't it take 3 months for training and handover?

I thought they already started training drivers?

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Rawlinson Avenue Reopens at Eglinton Avenue East - Late-February 2023​

From link.

What Work is Taking Place?

In approximately late-February 2023, Rawlinson Avenue will reopen at Eglinton Avenue East. All traffic lanes and turns will be reinstated at the Rawlinson-Eglinton intersection (refer to map above). No further traffic changes at this intersection are expected as a result of Crosstown construction.


What to Expect

Access to Eglinton Avenue East from Rawlinson Avenue will be reinstated. Noise from relocation of fencing, equipment, and materials can be expected during this work.

 

[NoahB]

The Uni-directional cycle tracks is wrong. Should be combined into one duel-direction cycling track. Then emergency vehicles could use the duel-direction cycling tracks to bypass the single-occupant motorists. There is still time do it before April.

I dont have any documents off the top of my head. But Montreal decided to move away from bi-directional cycle tracks because they are less safe than having one on each side of the road. So you give access to emergency vehicles but then you risk having more bike-car crashes.

 

[Steve X]

won't it take 3 months for training and handover?

Fixing up the street and opening the line under the street are two different things.

 

[just east of the creek]

I’m in Seoul Korea currently and on business, so spending much time in the ‘downtown’ areas. Traffic is still much worse then Toronto, especially as much of the area is built Mississauga style, with huge complexes surrounded by broad multi- lane avenues (sorry , no bike lanes) where the local and plentiful busses move at walking speed in many areas at certain times of the day.. Seoul also has a 23 line subway network that has a major complaint about having too many stations, so average speeds are not high enough and suffer from lack of capacity.

The solution here is to build a new system of high speed underground. Apparently speeds up to 180 km/h. The first line is 83 km long I believe with just 10 or 11 stations. This is under construction. There is a second similar line that I understand is starting or about to start building. And a third similar line starts building this year.

Seoul has a population in excess of 10 million and size wise is very comparable in size to Toronto, 605 vs 630 km squared. But a population density of almost three times (and increasing) that of Toronto, at slightly over 15,000 people per sq km

And if you walk down some of the streets where construction is taking place, it looks a lot like Eglington did and what the Ontario line will as well. The exception being the width of the street and sidewalks is much greater allowing more flexibilty, but still causing major traffic and walking disruptions.

I’ll see if I can get some daylight photos.

 

[smallspy]

I thought they already started training drivers?

Not yet. They'd been called for January (and August prior to that), but it's been pushed off again.

Dan

 

[kv1990]

Toronto hints that the Eglinton Crosstown LRT could finally open this summer

The long-overdue Eglinton Crosstown LRT might finally enter service as the TTC's Line 5 this summer, according to a vague hint included in a recent c…

www.blogto.com

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Toronto hints that the Eglinton Crosstown LRT could finally open this summer

The long-overdue Eglinton Crosstown LRT might finally enter service as the TTC's Line 5 this summer, according to a vague hint included in a recent c…

www.blogto.com

I'll pencil that in for summer on my Julian calendar.

 

[T3G]

Toronto hints that the Eglinton Crosstown LRT could finally open this summer

The long-overdue Eglinton Crosstown LRT might finally enter service as the TTC's Line 5 this summer, according to a vague hint included in a recent c…

www.blogto.com

I shouldn't like to put any stock in to anything BlogTO has to say. Any respectable journalist (which, I'll grant, are few and far in between these days) would go by more than literal hints before breaking a news story.

If the line won't be finished until summer, there is zero chance of it entering service in the summer. Time is needed in order to test the line and get everyone trained.

 

[dad pad]

I shouldn't like to put any stock in to anything BlogTO has to say. Any respectable journalist (which, I'll grant, are few and far in between these days) would go by more than literal hints before breaking a news story.

If the line won't be finished until summer, there is zero chance of it entering service in the summer. Time is needed in order to test the line and get everyone trained.

I don't see anything wrong with this article. They are reporting the possible implication of a statement in an official document, not hearsay. The key words in the headline are 'hints' and 'could'.