[W. K. Lis]

New renderings from the IO page:

If each motor vehicle in the images represent 1.5 people, there would still be more people on board the light rail vehicles and buses pictured.

Missing from the images, but should be included in future renderings: overheated cars, flat tires, collisions, stalled cars, ambulance and fire truck runs, bicyclists, and police chases.

 

[doady]

LRT to CCTT is only needed for connecting 9, 61, 66. All other routes can connect to the LRT at other stations. It would have made more sense to complete the transitway, and including a Hurontario transitway station to connect to the LRT. The purpose of CCTT was for connecting the transitway. The LRT could have done that easily without the long diversion to CCTT. 9, 61, 66 could have easily just been extended to Hurontario if they reallly need to connect to it so badly. Instead, they chose the most expensive and most inconvenient option, building a longer LRT, diverting all trains and riders off of Hurontario.

 

[vic]

LRT to CCTT is only needed for connecting 9, 61, 66. All other routes can connect to the LRT at other stations. It would have made more sense to complete the transitway, and including a Hurontario transitway station to connect to the LRT. The purpose of CCTT was for connecting the transitway. The LRT could have done that easily without the long diversion to CCTT. 9, 61, 66 could have easily just been extended to Hurontario if they reallly need to connect to it so badly.

Connections to GO there too....

 

[doady]

Connections to GO there too....

And that's why I said they should have built Hurontario transitway station. Hurontario transitway station could easily have its own mini-terminal for 6, 9, 61 and whatever other routes to connect with the LRT.

 

[drum118]

Connections to GO there too....

If all GO routes and MT routes, 107, 109, 110, 9, 61, 66, 6, 8, 3, 10, 76, 91 were move to the plaza area next to Hurontario as I have call for since 2010, the LRT would stay 100% on Hurontario and provide faster connection between North of the 403 and Cooksville GO station than the current back in/out time consuming plan. You would still need a bridge over Rathburn and the 403, but it doesn't need to be elevated to the south or CCTT. Riders will have a further walking distance to Sq One and no different like other places in NA or the world.

 

[Coolstar]

Contract Awarded for Hurontario LRT
October 21, 2019
18-kilometre, 19-stop light rail system to be completed in 2024
MISSISSAUGA - Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have awarded a contract valued at $4.6 billion to Mobilinx Hurontario General Partnership (Mobilinx) for the Hurontario LRT. The contract requires Mobilinx to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the new transit project for a 30-year term.
The contract, adjusted for inflation, reflects payments during construction, a substantial completion payment and monthly service payments during the 30-year operations and maintenance period.
The Mobilinx team includes:

• Applicant Lead: John Laing Investments Limited, Astaldi Canada Enterprises Inc., Hitachi Rail STS S.p.A., Transdev North America Inc., Amico Concessions Inc., Salini Impregilo Canada Holding Inc.
• Construction: Astaldi Canada Design & Construction Inc., Hitachi Rail STS Canada Inc., Amico Infrastructures Inc., Bot Infrastructure Ltd., Salini Impregilo Civil Works Inc.
• Design: IBI Group Professional Services (Canada) Inc., Hitachi Rail STS S.p.A., Morrison Hershfield, Arcadis Canada Inc., Daoust Lestage Inc., Exp Services Inc.
• Operation Maintenance & Rehabilitation Provider: Transdev Services Canada Inc., Hitachi Rail STS Canada Inc., Astaldi Canada Enterprises Inc., Salini Impregilo S.p.A.
• Financial Advisor: National Bank, HSBC

At the peak of construction, Mobilinx estimates that approximately 800 jobs will be created.
Design work will begin immediately with construction to follow. Mobilinx anticipates completion of the LRT in Fall 2024.
The selection of Mobilinx is the result of an open, fair and competitive procurement process overseen by a third-party fairness monitor.
Metrolinx and IO are delivering the Hurontario LRT via a public-private partnership (P3) contract which transfers the appropriate risks to the private sector. While the LRT will be operated and maintained by Mobilinx, it will remain publicly owned by Metrolinx.
For more information, visit Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx.
Contacts:
Lisa Campeotto
Infrastructure Ontario
416-452-0165
lisa.campeotto@infrastructureontario.ca
Metrolinx
416-202-5859
mediarelations@metrolinx.com

Yeah there wasn't any hope of building the line in less than 3 years. But glad to see this project moving along.

 

[syn]

Glad to see this moving forward. It's going to be a great addition to Mississauga.

 

[salsa]

 

[Amare]

^At least they're being honest unlike Crosslinx, who keeps coaxing Metrolinx into believing that they will be able to meet their 2021 deadline which we all know wont be happening.

 

[W. K. Lis]

^At least they're being honest unlike Crosslinx, who keeps coaxing Metrolinx into believing that they will be able to meet their 2021 deadline which we all know wont be happening.

Please supply the link or reference where they will not be able to meet their 2021 deadline for the Crosstown LRT?

So far they say September, 2021. See link. Dated, September 27, 2019.

Eglinton Crosstown LRT 'on track' for a September 2021 completion

For construction weary drivers waiting for the completion of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.

“We’re on track for a September 2021 completion,” Niko Milic, assistant project manager with Crosslinx Transit Solutions, said.

On Friday, media were given a tour of construction sites at both Science Centre Station and the tracks at Pharmacy and Eglinton to get an update on the projects completion.

The Eglinton Crosstown LRT service will run at times both above and below Eglinton Avenue, between Weston Road and Kennedy Road, and is estimated to cost $5.4 billion to complete.

Construction on the Science Centre station began in 2016 and will include a seven bay TTC bus terminal, retail shopping in an underground concourse and 60 bicycle parking spaces...

 

[44 North]

Wasn't it supposed to be in place many, many years ago? I think we're past the point of it being two years later than promised.

 

[Amare]

Please supply the link or reference where they will not be able to meet their 2021 deadline for the Crosstown LRT?

So far they say September, 2021. See link. Dated, September 27, 2019.

Eglinton Crosstown LRT 'on track' for a September 2021 completion

Just look at the state of affairs at various underground stations, most especially with the interchange stations, and tell me with a straight face that trains will be up and running by the end of 2021. No link is needed, just a quick eye test.

 

[W. K. Lis]

Just look at the state of affairs at various underground stations, most especially with the interchange stations, and tell me with a straight face that trains will be up and running by the end of 2021. No link is needed, just a quick eye test.

That's TWO years. The concrete will be poured, the subsoil will be laid down, and the asphalt roadway will rolled out within one year. Then the last year will be spent on finishings.

 

[salsa]

This is news to me. From the front page article:

"A more recent development in the project is a plan to build an "elevated guideway" -- a separate overpass to carry the LRT trains over Highway 403. The overpass will also contain the junction to the spur track to and from the City Centre. The future line will operate as a split service, with all trains starting or ending their trips at City Centre. To travel further north- or southward, through passengers must transfer between trains."


I was under the impression that the split service idea had died along with the city centre loop, and that the in-and-out at the City Centre would be a one seat ride. Instead it'll be the same plan as before, except now we lost a bunch of useful stations that could have provided convenient LRT access to popular civic destinations around Celebration Square and all the residential density that surrounding it. What a shame.

 

[drum118]

This is news to me. From the front page article:

"A more recent development in the project is a plan to build an "elevated guideway" -- a separate overpass to carry the LRT trains over Highway 403. The overpass will also contain the junction to the spur track to and from the City Centre. The future line will operate as a split service, with all trains starting or ending their trips at City Centre. To travel further north- or southward, through passengers must transfer between trains."


I was under the impression that the split service idea had died along with the city centre loop, and that the in-and-out at the City Centre would be a one seat ride. Instead it'll be the same plan as before, except now we lost a bunch of useful stations that could have provided convenient LRT access to popular civic destinations around Celebration Square and all the residential density that surrounding it. What a shame.

It going to add as much as 10 minutes extra travel time compare to the 103 for all riders who have no need to go to Sq One in the first place. Regardless if the line is elevated, it takes time to get in/out, load/off load and assuming both cars arrive at the same time. Defeat the the goal to have drivers to leave their cars at home to get to/from Cooksville GO Station.