It really irks me that they didn't include the overhead catenary that will be required to power the Ontario Line trains. It's not as if it's overly ugly or anything. Why knowingly show an inaccurate representation of final build?
You can barely see the poles that support the catenary. Presumably it's simply not visible at this resolution. These seems a very minor criticism.
 
You can barely see the poles that support the catenary. Presumably it's simply not visible at this resolution. These seems a very minor criticism.

I stand corrected, they are visible, but barely. And they should be more prominent on the new OL bridge as you can see the light poles on Millwood Overpass Bridge fairly clearly and that's further away too.

And yes, extremely nitpicky criticism. :)
 
Construction animation
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With the O-line hitting Bathurst, i just noticed Bathurst will have a station at Bathurst & Spadina - O-line
Bathurst Station - Danforth line
Bathurst & St Clair - Yonge line
Bathurst & Eglinton - crosstown
*Bathurst & Sheppard - Sheppard line

*=Potentially

Is this the only street who could touch all of our transit lines
 
Photos from this afternoon on my run home. First, a view showing roughly where the portal will be. No trees above the DVP have been removed as far as I can see. But they have done some work on the retaining wall on the S side of the DVP
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Another view of the retaining wall
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And the future crane site
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With the O-line hitting Bathurst, i just noticed Bathurst will have a station at Bathurst & Spadina - O-line
Bathurst Station - Danforth line
Bathurst & St Clair - Yonge line
Bathurst & Eglinton - crosstown
*Bathurst & Sheppard - Sheppard line

*=Potentially

Is this the only street who could touch all of our transit lines
Yonge St

Yonge line: duh
Sheppard - Yonge
Yonge & Eglinton
Bloor - Yonge
Queen
 
Next up, the emergency exit building site (IIRC) on Pape where the KFC was. Sorry it's a second post, but...
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And for those of you who drive, the gas station across the street has gas at $137.9 (I had to draw the one, due to the flickering sign! 😜). It was at least a penny more on Danforth
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Picture here of pile driving about to take place at the Don River.

 
Picture here of pile driving about to take place at the Don River.

Already taking place for weeks now. Neighbours are up in arms over the constant overnight noise and threatening to ‘take to the streets’.
 
Price of living in downtown Toronto. You're going to have disruptions and construction happening often and close by.
Everyone says this until it happens to them.

I lived next to the Well's construction site for years and it seemed reasonable compared to ML's practices. The Well was almost immediately hooked up to Toronto Hydro to comply with the city's bylaw, ML's contractors just run a comical number of diesel generators that are loud and noxious, and ML says it is because they haven't designed electrical substations yet (they never will, if Crosstown is anything to go by). The Well also had a predictable schedule, even during the COVID-era noise hours exemption.
 

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