Just watched an oversize load rig knock over the pedestrian beg button pole on the NE corner of Pape and Danforth. TIL: Not a bollard. Won't stop a car crash.

Edit: Posting in Ontario Line because I'm pretty sure that oversize load rig had just delivered a crane for Ontario Line construction.

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leopetr said:
Just watched an oversize load rig knock over the pedestrian beg button pole on the NE corner of Pape and Danforth. TIL: Not a bollard. Won't stop a car crash.

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Great now they want us to get down on our knees to beg? Pitiful treatment of pedestrians in this town I tell you!
 
leopetr said:
Just watched an oversize load rig knock over the pedestrian beg button pole on the NE corner of Pape and Danforth. TIL: Not a bollard. Won't stop a car crash.
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That's not a beg button - that intersection, like pretty much any major intersection around there, doesn't use the pedestrian buttons. Those buttons are only for the blind, to activate the noises.
 
Great update as always Kotsy! Does Metrolinx use both concrete and wood railway ties? If so, why?
 
Civdis said:
Great update as always Kotsy! Does Metrolinx use both concrete and wood railway ties? If so, why?
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Metrolinx's current standard is to use concrete ties where possible.

Wooden ties are required in some places where there needs to be a lower static loading (at bridges or other structures) or where there needs to be a change in the rigidity of the track structure (such as level crossings or switches).

As well, wooden ties are used whenever there are temporary track changes as they are much, much easier to handle and move.

Dan
 
Curious how they are going to remove / dismantle the TBM up on that cliff face?
They may have to build a lot of temporary works to do that
(i.e. a large platform of some kind, maybe even spanning the DVP?)
 
officedweller said:
Curious how they are going to remove / dismantle the TBM up on that cliff face?
They may have to build a lot of temporary works to do that
(i.e. a large platform of some kind, maybe even spanning the DVP?)
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The entire TBM doesn’t need to emerge before it begins disassembly. They have a little over 50 metres of space to work with, before hanging over the DVP.

I looked it up to help prove my point and I happened upon this very recent video of the TBM disassembly on Vancouver’s Broadway subway project. You can see removal done piece by piece via crane through tight spaces.
 
So with the tracks shifted, we will start to see actual construction of the OL line to the north?
 
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