Tag Archives: infrastructure
20191212. Bent (engineering): a traverse framework to carry lateral as well as vertical loads such as the demolished Bay off-ramp from the Gardiner Expressway that this one carried. Can we please save at least one?
20191210. When you step back and look at Wellesley Station, it’s apparent that design was irrelevant even though this building is a subway station, bus terminal, apartment building’s amenity mezzanine and parking garage.
20191209. A shower of sparks means workers are preparing to remove a section of decking on the Gardiner Expressway – part of its strategic rehabilitation from Jarvis to Cherry St (see https://bit.ly/37z0TYu).
20191207. Constructing a Storm Water Quality Facility (SWQF) at Lake Shore Blvd and Cherry St to treat urban run-off from new West Don Lands development.
20191127. The Gardiner Expressway strategic rehabilitation from Jarvis to Cherry Street (https://bit.ly/37z0TYu) continues. Here, the new Sherbourne St off-ramp decking is in place and a worker prepares a support bent for a new panel.
20191124. A fabricated section of replacement decking for the Gardiner Expressway waits at the fabrication site to be put into place. This is part of the strategic rehabilitation of the elevated highway from Jarvis to Cherry Street.See https://bit.ly/37z0TYu for more information.
20191123. A natural gas pipeline runs through it. Highland Creek.
20191121. The shortest of six bents, a temporary legacy to the bay street off-ramp, is the only one catching the setting sun.
20191120. The large tent structures at the east end of the fabrication site where sections of replacement decking are being built for the Gardiner Expressway strategic rehabilitation from Jarvis to Cherry Street.
20191115. The ramp that was.
20191023. Under the recently rehabilitated Morningside Avenue bridge over Highland Creek.
20191022. The centre X spans on the Queen Street Viaduct (reminiscent of yesterday’s federal election).
20191013. The Guildwood Station upgrade includes fancy lighting leading you into the pedestrian tunnels.
20191008. The south-side ramp from the now open Garrison Crossing which connects Fort York, the former Ordnance Triangle and Stanley Park.
20191007. The south-side ramp from the now open Garrison Crossing which includes two bridge structures spanning two rail corridors.
20191006. A GO train heading to Union Station emerges from the Strachan Ave below-grade rail corridor just after sunset.
20190921. Where Mimico Creek goes concrete. Come check it out on tomorrow’s walk: https://facebook.com/events/2091910074437770/
20190916. A ground view and aerial view of the bents that should remain to commemorate the Gardiner Expressway’s former Bay Street off-ramp in this new park. Unfortunately, the winning park design does not include them.
20190912. The only truly orange exit in the TTC subway system is at St. Clair station.
20190911. Makeshift stairs lead to platforms under the Gardiner as the City prepares to replace the expressway deck.
20190814. A transmission tower framed in a transmission tower.
20190811. The 1912 Smiths Falls Scherzer rolling-lift railway bridge was operated manually for 63 years from 1915 to 1978 for the Canadian Northern Railway mainline over the Rideau Canal. It is a National Historic Site.
20190716. Herding the humans through the construction at Union Station.
20190709. Ascending from the pedestrian tunnels of Scarborough GO station.
