Just look at Toronto and how the subway hasn't spurred development in some places for 50 years. It all depends on zoning. And Mineola, particularly Mineola West, but increasingly Mineola East as well, is full of wealthy people who will have no desire for intensification in their neighbourhood. You may see some small development facing Hurontario (maybe the plaza with Cousin's, for example) but I think the area will largely remain intact, with development to the south (Port Credit) and north (the Hospital district, Cooksville, Fairview and Square One of course).
The only thing in Fairview happening is those old houses in palgrave are being torn down for McMansions. Perhaps the Tim Hortons and Popeyes plaza at confederation will be developed. And that one large house on actual Fairview which is being torn down for 9 detached houses.
 
Just look at Toronto and how the subway hasn't spurred development in some places for 50 years. It all depends on zoning. And Mineola, particularly Mineola West, but increasingly Mineola East as well, is full of wealthy people who will have no desire for intensification in their neighbourhood. You may see some small development facing Hurontario (maybe the plaza with Cousin's, for example) but I think the area will largely remain intact, with development to the south (Port Credit) and north (the Hospital district, Cooksville, Fairview and Square One of course).

Mineola is among the only neighbourhoods that have been deemed unsuitable for intensification, despite being located adjacent to a future major interchange GO station. The stink of entitlement is palpable.

Yes I can definitely imagine some homeowners fronting Hurontario will be driven out eventually, and the lot sizes are generous. A land assembly of even just two lots here could probably yield 10-12 units without upzoning.

Good thing the city has made all the stops along HuLRT an MTSA! Density will come whether people like it or not. That said, Mineola’s boundary happens to be the narrowest of all the MTSA’s, showing how right some of the comments above are.

 
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Good thing the city has made all the stops along HuLRT an MTSA! Density will come whether people like it or not. That said, Mineola’s boundary happens to be the narrowest of all the MTSA’s, showing how right some of the comments above are.

There are SFH in Mineola directly adjacent to PC GO that are excluded from the MTSA. Ridiculous.
 
About 80-90% of the homes on Hurontario south of the QEW are business with a few empty lots. In time and the with right dollar's, those houses will come down with low (6s) to mid rise building (15s) replacing them. Getting anything taller will be a thought fight with the city leading the way. A good portents of those existing home site especially the east side are about 200' deep lots and will be the first to go. The west side will see a few mid rise unless the developers can buy up the houses behind them.

Have never got a straight story when those poles will be remove that preventing the use of the southbound lanes nor for the northbound when it come time to build it. Until those poles are remove and traffic is shifted, the guideway cannot be built. They are holding communication cables for Bell and Rogers on the east side with some on the west side.

From @Tim MacDonald photos, bulk of the west sidewalk has been pour from Mary Fix Creek to Pinewood. Where it is not poured, there is only room for a single driveways that is preventing the pouring there that will require a ramp over it after been pour since some of them are for home. The others will have to be done on the weekend. There are a few businesses with 2 driveways and a few had concrete pour for one of them.

The photo for the QEW shows the northbound curb is now poured from the off ramp to the North Service Rd allowing the new pane to be pave. Until they pour the curb work in the new road to make a left turn to the QEW, cannot open that new underpass unless you make it for only northbound until the left turn lane is in place.

The plaza at Fairview will go in time as well the whole corner as the land is own by Kaneff Group .who are slow builders these days. The same thing will happen to the Cousin Plaza

If I looking correctly for the station, there is a walkway been built over the slopping walkway and hope there is enough head room for cycles and tall people. The steel work completed for the entrance and looks like brickwork for the north end

Great shot @Tim MacDonald as usual
 
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Empty lots there? Mineola seems almost semi-rural (unbelievable given the location) but wow.
Mineola was originally "cottages". Now it's mostly large homes, some even 10-20k sq ft. There is a large price premium to live in the area, particularly along the Credit. The kind of people who live there would be unlikely to sell developers, for the most part. It's like asking the people of Rosedale to allow their neighbourhood to be densified because they have a subway station.
 
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Burnhamthorpe was seeing the last of the concrete pour for the base today as I went by. No idea if the top coat will be pour on Friday or Saturday The intersection will be now open sometime next week.

Too dark to tell if work has started on Paisley Guideway looking south at Dundas, but could be wrong as it has started based on the swing traffic head lights.

The northbound lane is still close south of Dundas

Haft of the paving of the northbound lane between Dundas and Hillcrest is is done still leaving the rest pave as well up to the CP bridge.

Haft way up the hill to Fairview, traffic is now using the northbound new lane.
 
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^ I am not delighted to see that there are delays, but I am delighted to see someone piercing the force shields of Metrolinx's project planning bureaucracy and putting out hard data on what is working and not working.

If it takes having creditors to do this, then I'm suddenly a fan of P3 procurement.

- Paul
 
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This comes as no surprised to me based on what I have seen first hand as well in the over 7,000 shots of the corridor.

I have been saying over 18 months that this was a make work project to do a show and tell.

One of the big delay to this project is the designer who lives and work in the London UK and not sure where the detailing work is been done, but work starts when the detail drawings were at 80% and when the 100% detail drawing show up, time to rip out and redo various section. Topflight wye track area is a good example that it was close to 5 months pass its completion date. A few surprised did show up and took time to figure it out who was reasonable for it as well did it need to be rebuilt elsewhere.

I have no idea why the delay for switches. The topflight crossover is mostly in place along with the tracks for it, but this been on going since March. The crossover at Waltline was torn out well over a year ago with a new based poured for it late last year with tracks showing up months ago and still incomplete

As for rail, it been stock piled at the old Cooksville lot as well up at the Hwy 407 bus terminal area well over a year and the standard T rail found all over the place. I expect the rail being an issue is due to Alstom LRV that are the same ones as Ottawa and Finch.

At the very start of the construction as well in 2023, Mobilinx has stated public that the wye connection for the Burnhamthorpe intersection would be built so there was no delay when the loop was in the picture.

Whisper started to be heard along the corridor that the wye connection for Burnhamthorpe would not built as plan and be replace with straight tracks only which was nuts. Nuts and other words were heard abought going to straight track.

The city became very concerned about the change when they were informed of the change as it was going to cause major issues down the road when that intersection has to be torn up and rebuilt. The only thing that can be save is the northbound track that will have to be saw cut on either of the intersection where the switch has to go in. You maybe able to save some of the southbound, mainly in the centre of the intersection, but better off removing it and the concrete for the tracks that need to connect to the northbound track.

If this line opens before the wye is built which will be around 2027 at this time, the city will have no spare buses to replace the LRV's as they are max out for space now and still talking about the long over due 3rd garage that will cost $500 million.

The province has stated the loop is a go at an extra cost as well the Brampton extension, but no one has heard about the funding of the 2 extension nor up dating the EA for the loop as it no larger. In May, whisper were been heard along the corridor that the wye would not be built and going a head with straight. Burnhamthorpe Intersection was to see work from July 11 to Sept 19, but the south section only saw the concrete base poured on Thursday with a top coat being pour either Friday or Sat. Need 3 more days to strip the area, backfill the gap and then pave the gap and a lane that should be done by Wednesday. This makes the delay almost 3 weeks late and common for almost every intersection done to date. Some intersections were a few days late, but mostly a week or 2.

As I stated time after time, opening date was September 2024, then the end of 2024 and don't expect to see it in service come December 2026, depending on a number of things.

With the decision to to go to straight track, I expect the Steele station will be built on the southside as plan, not the northside where it should be for the extension so extra money can be gain to cover the huge lost Mobilinx is taking at this point.

There is not one section of the corridor that is 100% complete.

One complaint heard along the corridor is the lack of permits. The city has setup a special process to speed the permits up as long as the paper work is correct when the permit is been requested.

Beginning in January of 2025, a notice was sent out saying the guideway would be built by the end of 2024 from Eglinton to South Service Rd, yet here we are in October with the guideway built 80% from Square One Drive To Central Pkwy and between Kingsbridge an Eglinton. The elevated section and the bridge over the 403 is at 40-50% at best.
 
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