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The city is changing the alignment of the LRT line in three places during the second phase of the project.
One tweak means the the LRT tunnel won’t have cut through the Unitarian campus on Cleary Avenue. The city proposes to swing the tunnel south sooner, going from east to west, cutting through the property of a current strip plaza at 747 Richmond Rd. Instead of Cleary station tucked behind the plaza on National Capital Commission land, the station would front Richmond Road.
The city says the change would concentrate the construction on one site, especially considering the redevelopment potential for the plaza property.
According to the city, the changes won’t impact the budget.
The Unitarian campus on Cleary Avenue has a church, seniors residence and child-care centre. The Unitarians have been pushing the city to swing the alignment away from the campus, fearing construction and noise would have a negative health impact to residents and operations at the child care.
There are two other changes in the east on the second-phase blueprint announced by the city Thursday.
Where the city was planning to run LRT below Blair Road and two ramps connecting Hwy. 174, it now wants to run trains along the existing Transitway on the north side of the highway, eliminating the need to build tunnels in the area. It’s cheaper, easier to maintain and has a better connection with the future Cumberland Transitway corridor east of Blair Road, the city says.
The final tweak, which will save $12 million, has the city bringing the LRT line into the median of Hwy. 174 sooner, going west to east. The transition was going to happen east of Montreal Road, but the city now wants to move trains to the median 2.3 kilometres farther west, just east of Blair Road. It means the city wouldn’t need to build a new 500-metre-long structure over Montreal Road. Montreal station would be located in the highway median.
It also means the highway would need to be widened to accommodate the LRT infrastructure. The city wants to bundle the Montreal Road bridge replacement, already planned in the next five years, with the Stage 2 LRT work.
The entire Stage 2 project, which extends LRT to Place d’Orléans, Algonquin College and Bayshore Shopping Centre, along with extending the Trillium Line O-Train to Riverside South, is projected to cost $3 billion.
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One tweak means the the LRT tunnel won’t have cut through the Unitarian campus on Cleary Avenue. The city proposes to swing the tunnel south sooner, going from east to west, cutting through the property of a current strip plaza at 747 Richmond Rd. Instead of Cleary station tucked behind the plaza on National Capital Commission land, the station would front Richmond Road.
The city says the change would concentrate the construction on one site, especially considering the redevelopment potential for the plaza property.
According to the city, the changes won’t impact the budget.
The Unitarian campus on Cleary Avenue has a church, seniors residence and child-care centre. The Unitarians have been pushing the city to swing the alignment away from the campus, fearing construction and noise would have a negative health impact to residents and operations at the child care.
There are two other changes in the east on the second-phase blueprint announced by the city Thursday.
Where the city was planning to run LRT below Blair Road and two ramps connecting Hwy. 174, it now wants to run trains along the existing Transitway on the north side of the highway, eliminating the need to build tunnels in the area. It’s cheaper, easier to maintain and has a better connection with the future Cumberland Transitway corridor east of Blair Road, the city says.
The final tweak, which will save $12 million, has the city bringing the LRT line into the median of Hwy. 174 sooner, going west to east. The transition was going to happen east of Montreal Road, but the city now wants to move trains to the median 2.3 kilometres farther west, just east of Blair Road. It means the city wouldn’t need to build a new 500-metre-long structure over Montreal Road. Montreal station would be located in the highway median.
It also means the highway would need to be widened to accommodate the LRT infrastructure. The city wants to bundle the Montreal Road bridge replacement, already planned in the next five years, with the Stage 2 LRT work.
The entire Stage 2 project, which extends LRT to Place d’Orléans, Algonquin College and Bayshore Shopping Centre, along with extending the Trillium Line O-Train to Riverside South, is projected to cost $3 billion.
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