Tag Archives: infrastructure
20150109. This pedestrian bridge leads to the impressive facade of the Value Park Garage from Pearson Airport’s Terminal Link Train Viscount Station.
20150106. Approach Toronto’s international airport on the new Union Pearson Express later this year.
20141226. The world’s highest hydraulic lift lock resides in Peterborough, Ontario on the Trent-Severn Waterway.
The Peterborough Lift Lock lifts ships 19.8 metres (max 30.5 m long, max 7.3 m wide, max 99,000 kg). The 386 km waterway (with 45 locks and 39 swing bridges and 20 km of man-made channels), is a Canadian National Historic Site and takes 5-7 days to traverse. Construction begain in 1833 and by 1920 a ship could travel from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron. At the time it was built, it was the largest un-reinforced concrete structure on Earth.
20141225. The Milne Dam (latest build 1968) on the Rouge River is the seed from which Markham, Ontario sprang.
20141217. Repairing the Burlington Bay Skyway heritage bridge (c.1958).
In 1985, a second bridge (behind) was added to double traffic capacity. This second bridge is unimpressive compared to the original and does not compliment it in anyway.
Could you imagine using the portable toilet near the top of the platform rigging on a cold windy day?
20141216. Symmetry straight up a tower of power. Minimal Aesthetic 45.
20141213. The Hamilton GO Centre (c.1933) is possibly the only example of Art Deco station architecture in Canada.
20141124. Waiting for the bus on Mississauga’s brand new Central Parkway BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) Station platform.
20141123. Inside Mississauga’s brand new Tomken Transitway (bus rapid transit system) Station.
20141118. The brand new Mississauga Transitway (bus rapid transit system) Cawthra Station.
20141117. Mississauga’s Transitway (bus rapid transit system) and its Dixie Station opened today.
20141111. The entrance to Bloor Station on Toronto’s future downtown-to-airport express train is taking shape.
20141108. Rochester’s Beebe Station Switch House. The historic power plant faces demolition.
20141101. The curves of Toronto’s Union Station streetcar platform are a familiar sight once again.
20141011. Although construction is not complete, streetcars return to Toronto’s Queens Quay tomorrow.
The TTC’s 511 Spadina streetcars (new and old) will now run from Spadina station to Union Station and the 509 Harbourfront streetcars are back in business.
20141008. A dark Union Station during yesterday’s blackout in Toronto.
20140914. Windows on the world at the Toronto TTC Castle Frank subway station bus platform.
20140912. Toronto’s very own chunnel can be found along Black Creek.
20140911. Underneath the Gardiner Expressway grime, Toronto.
20140903. Toronto’s elevated Gardiner Expressway is stark yet visually appealing.
This is the eastbound Jarvis St off-ramp looking west.
20140831. The stony eastern terminus of the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto.
20140821. Now choose from 28 doors when entering the Union Station subway or underground PATH system in Toronto. Minimal Aesthetic 39.
Alternate Caption: 20140821. Pigeons use the subway too.
If you are taking the Yonge line, enter from the east doors (farthest) and if you are taking the University line, enter from the west doors (closest). What concerns me is if you want to go into the underground PATH, you must come through the west doors or you will be met by a bank of 17 turnstiles where once you could just walk through.
20140522. Waiting for a bus on TTC’s modernist Finch subway station bus platform (Toronto, c.1974).
20140506. My first on-street view of the TTC’s new Toronto Flexity Outlook streetcar (exiting Bathurst Stn).
