Tag Archives: infrastructure
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.
20190708. The corridor of lines.
20190707. The damp pedestrian tunnels of Scarborough GO station.
20190705. Bridges, trains and automobiles.
20190701. The often overlooked and rarely visited Glencairn Subway station.
20190618. Transformer House 5. This transformer-containing #modernist shell structure in Bayview Village doesn’t really look like a house as it has no door or windows.
20190617. A Raptors parade means road closures which means new temporary walkways under expressways and under overpasses.
20190612. An elegant TTC tunnel emergency exit between Pioneer Village Station and Highway 407 Station.
20190611. Transformer House 4. This shell house containing a stepdown transformer features a garage and a garden.
20190609. Between Evans Ave, the QEW and the Gardiner Expressway.
20190527. The Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facilty maintenance pit where Crosstown LRVs will be serviced.
20190516. Today (actually May 14th – I forgot my own anniversary) marks the 8th anniversary for this daily photography blog. Thanks for looking!
20190515. Vanishing down the pedestrian bridge to Toronto Pearson International Airport’s Terminal 1 Express Park Garage.
20190514. Inside the pedestrian bridge between Yorkdale Mall and Yorkdale Station.
20190513. A Brutalist wait for a train at Eglinton West Station
20190507. A pair of mobile rubber-tired Shuttlelift gantry cranes stand ready to assist in pre-constructing new sections for the Gardiner Expressway East re-build.
20190501. The Arthur Erickson designed Eglinton West Station features a 70 metre hexagonal concrete waffle roof with numerous skylights supported by 8 large round columns.
20190430. The Arthur Erickson designed Eglinton West Station features a 70 metre hexagonal concrete waffle slab roof that appears to hover over the station.
