This another Bondfield project and they only had a few on site last week on a bright sunny day. They only can move crews from one site to another once the work is done on the first one.

If you have the same sub trade working on all Bondfield sites, you will have next to no one working on all of them, other than a veryyyyyy sloooow paccce.

The push is on for the Pioneer station with tons of workers on site.

There is a push to get the new road from Steeles that is 98% complete to the station & York. York Blvd and Ian MacDonald Blvd that are complete, other than moving the construction fencing. Sidewalks being pour for the station at the University Station.

I have photos for the 3 sites, but 4,000 down the list and still working on Oct 10 shots.
 
how much are we paying each worker??!! were spending billions on a rolling work crew because they cant get enough skilled tradesmen to work on 7 stations even on the more simpler tasks???
One would expect that with billions spent there will be construction on a large scale. Instead it seems like its all piecemeal....
 
Have they included the underground station box for the Finch West LRT station at Keele & Finch? Or just a wall where they will have to dig up the intersection again?
 
W. K. Lis said:
Have they included the underground station box for the Finch West LRT station at Keele & Finch? Or just a wall where they will have to dig up the intersection again?
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Just a knock-out wall. When the station was tendered Finch LRT was very uncertain.
 
rbt said:
Just a knock-out wall. When the station was tendered Finch LRT was very uncertain.
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Friggin politics. How could it have been 'uncertain'? It should have been very certain; when it would be constructed in a 15-year timeframe should have been the only uncertainty.
 
DonValleyRainbow said:
Friggin politics. How could it have been 'uncertain'? It should have been very certain; when it would be constructed in a 15-year timeframe should have been the only uncertainty.
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That's easy, just look at the Scarborough subway; its fate still remains "uncertain" despite the numerous debates, studies, EA's, and everything else that has been done.
 
Amare said:
That's easy, just look at the Scarborough subway; its fate still remains "uncertain" despite the numerous debates, studies, EA's, and everything else that has been done.
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I fear this is a line we will use 5, 10, 20 years from now whenever we ask questions about transit getting implemented. 'Just look at Scarborough.'
 
DonValleyRainbow said:
I fear this is a line we will use 5, 10, 20 years from now whenever we ask questions about transit getting implemented. 'Just look at Scarborough.'
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Well at least it's not a flop like Sheppard. we still use that as part of our how to "fail at transit" line
 
Sheppard isn't fair to use as a transit fail unless you include the fact it was gutted before it was built. Evaluating the compromised line that was left will never be fair. That it was lopped off - and that Eglinton was killed at the same time - that's the epic failure there.
 
TJ O'Pootertoot said:
Sheppard isn't fair to use as a transit fail unless you include the fact it was gutted before it was built. Evaluating the compromised line that was left will never be fair. That it was lopped off - and that Eglinton was killed at the same time - that's the epic failure there.
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I guess I should clarify; rather than a design failure, it was a failure to complete the planned design in a way that is reasonable and profitable. As soon as cost projections came in, the
city just turn tail and ran.....hoping to bury the thought of eventual expansion and completion deep enough that they wont need to revisit it again. Unfortunately for them the North remembers.......
 
TJ O'Pootertoot said:
Sheppard isn't fair to use as a transit fail unless you include the fact it was gutted before it was built. Evaluating the compromised line that was left will never be fair. That it was lopped off - and that Eglinton was killed at the same time - that's the epic failure there.
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It wasn't gutted, it was given a Billion dollars to take it as far as the money would allow it under good old Mike. Sheppard got built because Mel twisted enough arms at council since this was his pet toy as well mayor of the once city of North York before Mike force the merger.

Eglinton got the raw deal to a point, but would the ridership be any higher than Sheppard as well doing 2-3 transfers if it was completed as plan???

As for a subway in Mississauga on Dundas, it got a worse business case than the Yonge extension. At least Yonge would see more riders than Dundas on opening day, but both fail the smell test. 2,500 riders at peak is BRT numbers, but will require an LRT by 2035. Better off doing LRT from day one for the Hurontario to Cloverdale/Kipling section and local/express buses west of Hurontario.
 
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