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Yes, they are part of the cement plant.
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chriskayTO
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Just what I had suspected - they are relocating from their current location at Cherry & Villiers.
the lemur
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Another test run this evening, started around 11:50 ... Watch out for it downtown.
calimehtar
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does anyone know if they have to build raised spots for boarding the new streetcars (think Roncesvalles) on streets like queen and king? or assuming they don't have to, do you think they might do it anyway?
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They are building curb cuts all along Queen Street this year so that wheelchairs can get to/from the new streetcar doors. All the mid-street platforms also need to be adjusted, primarily in length.
calimehtar
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W. K. Lis
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That safety island at the northeast corner of Queen at Spadina has always existed since I was a kid. The northeast sidewalk on Queen was widened, the roadway used to be one lane wider westbound at that point, but was removed for more sidewalk.
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M II A II R II K
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TTC struggles to finish building ‘on-time and on-budget,’ Leslie Street garage for new super-sized streetcars
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/0...reet-facility-for-new-super-sized-streetcars/
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Given our mayor’s love of subways, there is irony in the fact that the biggest capital project of his term is a streetcar garage. Council approved the project in 2009, and work began in 2010, the year Rob Ford took over as mayor. The TTC says the barns will open as Rob Ford’s term ends, in the fall of 2014.
- At first the grouchy tone of a worker here took me aback. But now I grasp some of the challenges of this project. The Leslie Barns is rising on a landfill site. Pouring foundations has taken longer than Pomerleau, the Quebec-based contractor, expected. Underground methane gas is a problem, too. Moving pipes under Leslie Street is also pricey. The barns now will cost $500-million, up nearly 50% from the original price tag. The TTC will go cap in hand to the budget committee in December, seeking $60-million more for this job.
- Mr. Yoannis climbs off the construction trailer deck to the gravel roadway, and we walk east toward a new lake on the site, which will catch storm water. The butts of wide pillars rise from the earth. These caissons, which go down about 11 metres to the till layer, will hold huge posts. On the posts, workers will string a prodigious web of overhead wires as a power source for 8.2 kilometres of streetcar tracks that will encircle and enter the Leslie Barns.
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/0...reet-facility-for-new-super-sized-streetcars/
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Given our mayor’s love of subways, there is irony in the fact that the biggest capital project of his term is a streetcar garage. Council approved the project in 2009, and work began in 2010, the year Rob Ford took over as mayor. The TTC says the barns will open as Rob Ford’s term ends, in the fall of 2014.
- At first the grouchy tone of a worker here took me aback. But now I grasp some of the challenges of this project. The Leslie Barns is rising on a landfill site. Pouring foundations has taken longer than Pomerleau, the Quebec-based contractor, expected. Underground methane gas is a problem, too. Moving pipes under Leslie Street is also pricey. The barns now will cost $500-million, up nearly 50% from the original price tag. The TTC will go cap in hand to the budget committee in December, seeking $60-million more for this job.
- Mr. Yoannis climbs off the construction trailer deck to the gravel roadway, and we walk east toward a new lake on the site, which will catch storm water. The butts of wide pillars rise from the earth. These caissons, which go down about 11 metres to the till layer, will hold huge posts. On the posts, workers will string a prodigious web of overhead wires as a power source for 8.2 kilometres of streetcar tracks that will encircle and enter the Leslie Barns.
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W. K. Lis
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The Leslie Barns are to open by the fall of 2014. By the 2nd quarter of 2014 (spring) until the end of 2014, the first new streetcars will roll (in order) on Spadina (12 new streetcars), Bathurst (10 new streetcars), Harbourfront (7), and Dundas (7). Dundas should have 14 new streetcars by 2015.
They expect to have 43 new streetcars by the end of 2014. Until the Leslie Barns are ready, Roncesvalles will store the new streetcars. To make room for the new streetcars, 22 of the old CLRV's could be stored at the side tracks at the CNE loop and another 6 to 10 CLRVs at Hillcrest.
They expect to have 43 new streetcars by the end of 2014. Until the Leslie Barns are ready, Roncesvalles will store the new streetcars. To make room for the new streetcars, 22 of the old CLRV's could be stored at the side tracks at the CNE loop and another 6 to 10 CLRVs at Hillcrest.
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the lemur
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hawc
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So we know they work at night but what about during the day?!?!
Will they seize up in the sun?
Will they seize up in the sun?
the lemur
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So we know they work at night but what about during the day?!?!
Will they seize up in the sun?
They're powered by moonlight. Unfortunately lunar panels don't work with solar energy because of different voltages.
chriskayTO
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From Twitter - testing over the Don Valley bridge on Queen: https://twitter.com/bgfrancey/status/385967711395672064/photo/1