It’s becoming more clear how it will look with complete LRT plus 4 tracks. There will never be one staircase to switch platforms. The LRT will have vertical access to street level only. There will be two island platforms for GO accessed by the existing tunnel.
Based on the GO bridge width, they could l extend one island platform further east towards the LRT, but that would still require stairs to climb over or under the tracks just to the parking area plaza.
Curious to see all these undisclosed plans for this area.
To put in a 4th track at PC, it will have to be on the south side making the current platform a centre one. I have no idea where or when and could be wrong seeing a plan with the platforms going the Hurontario bridge. If one look close at the north side of the tracks, there is enough room to put in the 4th track, but the bridge will be have to be widen and the push box is built for that track.
The LRT Station is not close to the tracks to have access to them as that is where the crossover tracks are.
a train every 7.5 mins at peak. So if you're lucky as a MCC resident trying to get downtown you will be ideally getting on this LRT with minimal waiting. Then you will be transferring via a walk to Cooksville. The bus got you closer but dont worry this fancy LRT comes around at such reasonable times 7.5mins the speed will more than make up for the old bus parking spot.
If you're a port credit Go Train user do you not get a direct connection to the LRT?
Given the fact the the LRV's are 42m long compared to 12-18m buses, 7.5 minute headway is more than enough time to handle ridership for peak time for at least the first 10 years, but should be 7/8 minutes as it will not happen at 7.5 minutes.
That time is for the plan straight track, but once the loop comes into play, the 7.5 headway may work if you are going from PC to MCC or MCC to Brampton, but with you are going past MCC, you have a transfer time waiting for the other LRV once the line is split in two. It is also possible that one section will have a different headway where the transfer time is longer due to higher demand on one section and low ridership on the other like it is today with the 2/17/103.
The city long ago had a vision of a walkway bridge over Hurontario St to allow better access to the Cooksville GO Station, When the LRT surface, there was talk about having access from the walkway to/from the LRT with that walkway disappearing due to lack of space. The only way access to/from the LRT maybe able to be done is removing the existing bridge centre pier and going with a full clear span bridge costing around $70 million dollars and taking
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@Tim MacDonald great shots, a number of thing stand out.
If one looks closely at PC bridge, you can see there enough room for the 4th track on the south side and wrong about the north side unless a bridge is built over the LRT.
I realized where and when I saw the plan for PC looking at Tim photos and that was during the EA for adding the 3rd track that had the track options on either side of the station then. Don't know with any those options are still around.
Tim photo shows Mary Fix Creek going past the trees to the north and was under the impression that where the creek went under Hurontario until areas north of it was clear that allow me to see it going behind the houses in a small channel.
As I expected, the have open part of the southbound curb lane for 2 lanes of traffic in both direction for the winter months north of Mineola and the QEW with a nice pole in the way at Minneola.
They have also paved and open the northbound curb lane from the QEW off ramp to the North Service Rd and working on building the formwork for northbound traffics to turn left off the new northbound road that could be open next month and closing the current lanes.
I see where Tim was talking about the location of the transformer station at the South Service Rd and if true, will be really close to traffic than any of the others ones bult to date.
It hard to say if the northbound curb is finally open from the Queensway to Dundas as it was still closed on Monday. The section between King and Dundas will remain partly close as they are rebuilding the south-east corner and shifted the bus stop to the west side with that corner being finished or partly open.
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The girders for the north section of the 403 bridge should be going up in the next few weeks as the north pier is ready for them.
The big push is on to get civil work done for the road and parts of the guideway before winter sets in. Crew working on Square One Dr curbs from it to the station as well in the centre of the guideway.
The southbound curb lane on the northside of Fairview could see curb and paving taking place next week. Lot of work for the south side.
The retaining wall south of Fairview to CP Bridge is done and no idea what they plan on doing with the 1m wall end as I though they would slope it down to the curb. Backfilling underway for that wall with the road area clean to allow the curb to be pour and then pave to have both lanes open for good.
The northbound curb lane is still close for the bridge area as they are now building a retraining wall from the hydro sub station and about 150m north of it.
Most of the retraining wall is built from CP bridge to John St, but a lot of work before that corner is ready to be open.
The northbound curb lane is now open from John St to just north of Dundas.
They haven't poured the top coat for the Central Pkwy platform and could be wrong with all the plastics covering it.
The curb lane for westbound Rathburn from City Centre/View is ready to be pave as the curb has been poured for it up to the end of the ramp, Same can say for the east side of the intersection.
The new sidewalk for the ramp to Rathburn/City View is ready to open once the rest of the restraining wall handrails are install.
Other and what I posted, seen no work for other areas. Was talking to a few hydro crews this past week and looks hydro will not have their work completed in 2025 as plan. As a note, hydro is restring the hydro lines along the 403 with thicker and stronger wires to handle more power, handle 150 miles winds and future ice storms like the past that did not. There are 4 cranes supporting the the wires over the 403 ramps and Hurontario with nightly closures for ramps.
All my photos for Sept and Oct 3 now on line
