Thank you guys for taking care of the dust, when work was being done for new town homes near Birmley and Lawrence it changed the sky I though it was a massive fire
Yeah, it's constant in Toronto no dust control on construction sites or at least inadequate dust control. Apparently dry cutting concrete with dust all over the concrete dust all over the place. That's more typical of Toronto.
This was honestly cool to see. A timelapse of that bridge being demolished. But it sucks to see it go also. I live close to Scarborough Town Centre. I have taken the TTC bus a couple of times to get to Scarborough Town Centre and it feels so naked without the bridge. I used to bike through that bridge to get to Scarbrough Town Centre and to get home. Now I have to go around and through the YMCA Scarbrough Town Centre route to access the mall.
@@cyyzlucas Priestly are slow as F@ck, they tore down a warehouse across the street from where i live and it took them 5 times as long as it should have, a job that should have taken 2 weeks tops lasted 3 months. I'm a heavy machinery operator and trainer myself, and watching them go so slow from my front porch was really frustrating.
Great job! Thought the infra work in canada sucks. This is exciting that it is so efficient and the energetic vibe is coming to show! wish more other projects like this on going to advance our GTA!
I'm so happy I came across this channel. So cool to see. Me being the mechanic at a concrete company how many meters would that be? Just cerious also I can't imagine the cost to have that job done. Would have been a shit pile of overtime paid out I would think 👍🇨🇦🔧
I live north of Scarborough, Markham. I haven't driven down there in over a month and seeing this video makes me wanna drive by there now, traffic must've been bad around there since the shopping mall is right there on the west of that bridge.
We need more companies like Delsan to complete all of the other subway/LRT projects because at this rate everything else will probably take another 40 years
There was one crash on the SRT. There was one crash at Zoo train. In both cases they were closed. Crash at Dupont Station which was life ending. Keeps going for more decades.
The driver ran through three red lights on his second day of work and plowed into another train. That's different that derailment during normal operation of a line about to be decommissioned.
Nice stuff guys. Love this channel and the inside scoop, these guys work hard and I hate how construction guys get criticized for working slow. Would love to see some interviews with the engineer on site and how they work with the machine team to get these done safely.
They should have looped the subway from Kennedy back along Eglinton to Islington and the Airport instead of these LRT tracks above ground.. maybe even extending the old LRT in Scarborough that is not in operation anymore; although looping the subway is a better long term solution for mass transit. building airport line & downsview lines seem like a waste so far north on downsfiew, but they could even be incorporated into an Eglinton subway line. I also think they should tunnel the Allen Road extension that was planned and bring it down to Gardiner Express.. Oh and use shared curb lanes instead of bike lanes.. Danforth Sux now!!
Its great that there's new stat, but the old stations are heavily neglected and take forever to maintain. Look at Islington station for example. Its been operating at 20% of its bus terminal for years. Trees are growing from the concrete roof resembling Chernobyl.
holy fcuk i drive by here everyday and i didn't even notice they took down dat overpass lolz so the LTR there is gonzo and replaced with underground subway?
Cool. But this has been done even better….there’s a Timelapse video about a Danish company - they tore down a section of a highway and putting back the bridge over a weekend. Nothing new, nothing special. It’s all about how much money someone has to do things.
The reason why they can do it fast is because it was a priority to do it fast In pursuit of doing things cheaply we like to spread out a project allowing it to eat a smaller portion of the budget each year, same reason why you don't buy a car outright. However this makes the project more vulnerable to changing conditions like changes in leadership. this method is a lot faster, however its much more expensive when pitching it as a solution, especially for large projects. Additionally it makes more short term jobs instead of fewer but more stable jobs which is generally preferred from a job creation perspective. Now do I wish we did things like this more? yes, we're decades behind in where our transit should be, catching up should be a priority, spending a premium to do projects quickly is fine when we have want more projects that need completion (pending political/budgetary willpower)
Don’t live too far from the demo. I didn’t know it was going to be demolished, and when I drove by a couple days later, it was like wow this is new and well done.
what a contrast to Metrolink whose CEO could not even tell you when the crosstown line will be in-service. He said, we will tell you the date 3 months before the in-service date - Translation - I have lost complete control of the project schedule and budget. LOL
Now why can't all the other construction crews working on the Gardiner, Spadina and Queen St. streetcar tracks etc. work this quickly and efficiently to start and finish a job so that they can go on to the next project and the public doesn't have to be inconvenienced for years? In the time its taking for the renovation work being done on a part of the Gardiner, the Chinese would've been able to tear down the entire expressway and build a brand new one in probably less than a couple of years max.
I don’t know much about the Spadina and Queen track work, but the Gardiner expressway work is not that simple. This bridge is a being completely torn down and the side is completely isolated. The Gardiner rehabilitation is being done on a bridge with active traffic on and below the site. Plus the bridge slabs need to be removed, the bridge rehabbed then replaced. Not the same as tearing down a bridge.
@@Kishanth.J That's the thing though. If the current Gardiner is costing so much and is taking so long to rehab, then why not tear it down completely and rebuild it brand new with modern materials and modern building techniques so that it can last decades with less maintenance costs required? As I said if you gave this project to a Chinese construction company they probably could tear down and build a brand new Gardiner in 2 years or probably even faster at a relatively affordable price compared to what our domestic construction companies are changing and how long its taking them to do anything. Also I know it would never happen, but I wish they would tear down the Gardiner and rebuild it as a triple deck structure. First deck would be used as its current function of moving vehicles in and out of downtown Toronto. Second deck would be used as a true expressway that almost completely avoids downtown for those who simply want to travel east-west and not be tied up with downtown traffic. The top deck could be built to be a pedestrian and cycle park where people can get a great view the city from an elevated park similar to what they have in New York with the Highline park. No one in Toronto would ever have the political will or vision to build such a thing, but I think it would be something cool for this city that's otherwise had much of its soul torn out and replaced with generic buildings.
@@UzumakiNaruto_ tearing it down and building a new one is not as simple as one might think. If the Gardiner was to be replaced in it entirety it would require years of studies, planning, public consultation and not to mention the opposition to it. The reason why maintenance for the expressway has been delayed this long is cause it expensive and it was owed by the city of Toronto. Which could afford it. The only reason it happening now is because the expressway is being uploaded to the province. Also a “Chinese company” wouldn’t automatically make the project better managed. The issues with high cost and long construction have to do with regulations and laws as well as safety protocols in Canada. These regulations aren’t bad, they are meant to keep construction safe and make sure buildings are built to a good standard. China is a authoritarian country so I doesn’t need to ask people permission to build, or to use other peoples land, or even bid for contracts. On the topic of you idea of a triple deck highway, that just not possible. Their is a reason why double deck highways aren’t built anywhere anymore. They don’t last long. Look at the Cypress Street Viaduct collapse. When the Gardiner was built the area around it was industrial and had seas of parking lists. Now it just a scar of unfinished urban highway planning. Cities like LA, Boston, Albany and Seattle removed their urban highways for various reasons but mostly cause their not as effective transportation options as they were though out to be.
All the works of 3 levels of government, the driven person is Doug Ford, PM of Ontario. I am hoping, since we pay taxes, all parks should be free parking in GTA, it doesn’t make sense to pay for parking visiting parks to relax after works or the weekends. The worst scenario is Edward garden park, Leslie and Lawrence ave east, you pay for parking but there is no flowers in the park, secondly all nurseries are not in a good shape, no flowers nothing. Smell the coffee !
That is awesome! The West needs to learn about mega-structures and mass labour coordination from China, which has mastered these quick construction turnarounds.
Why? Make no mistake, I'm all for new transit construction, but this is *SO* Toronto. Destroy something perfectly functional, then take years to replace it, if ever.
Yes all of Toronto is being destroyed right now…. These politicians and construction companies better know what they’re doing, because the citizens sure aren’t enjoying it.
They demolished a bridge and you said something about a subway, but you never said why they're demolishing this bridge. What has the bridge got to do with the subway?
So now traffic has to find an alternative route around, when they could drive through Was the bridge that heavy for the subway underground More congestion some place else
if Metrolinx worked this fast we would have 25 new subways by now.
ALL in the WEST end
we never see these stations in out life time.
But this is a Metrolinx project too.
You think Toronto works fast? 🤣🤣
@@lennon3712 But this is in Toronto, and it was fast?
So things can be done quickly in Toronto
Breaking stuff yes - making stuff, not holding my breath!
@@maxvideodrome4215 building a shit ton of weirdly designed condos in less than 3 years, yet building subways is their flaw
Hope so, may be ready for next generation
good one
No matter what side of the fence you're on. That was an awesome job. Well done!
Thank you guys for taking care of the dust, when work was being done for new town homes near Birmley and Lawrence it changed the sky I though it was a massive fire
Yeah, it's constant in Toronto no dust control on construction sites or at least inadequate dust control. Apparently dry cutting concrete with dust all over the concrete dust all over the place. That's more typical of Toronto.
Impressive, hardly ever seen something that efficient in Canada!! 5-star, perfectly well managed.
you can see that in major roads. ive seen road rehab done in one night
I drove by this at about 4am when they were doing the demolition. Incredible seeing this in action.
Amazing to see and great cinematography! Can’t wait for this new addition
This was honestly cool to see. A timelapse of that bridge being demolished. But it sucks to see it go also.
I live close to Scarborough Town Centre. I have taken the TTC bus a couple of times to get to Scarborough Town Centre and it feels so naked without the bridge.
I used to bike through that bridge to get to Scarbrough Town Centre and to get home. Now I have to go around and through the YMCA Scarbrough Town Centre route to access the mall.
I worked at Consillium place and walked through the covered bridge to the Scarboro TC.
I can tell the guy who spoke in the documentary was proud. Can’t wait to see what y’all do in the end
Priestly has been doing this for decades and are world leader when it comes to demo work. Nice to see someone else getting a chance.
They demolished the old terminal 1 at Pearson too.
@@cyyzlucas Priestly are slow as F@ck, they tore down a warehouse across the street from where i live and it took them 5 times as long as it should have, a job that should have taken 2 weeks tops lasted 3 months. I'm a heavy machinery operator and trainer myself, and watching them go so slow from my front porch was really frustrating.
Amazing job. Well done.
Great job on the progress made in a short period of time!
Great job! Thought the infra work in canada sucks. This is exciting that it is so efficient and the energetic vibe is coming to show!
wish more other projects like this on going to advance our GTA!
Amazing. Very cool.
amazing content, I hope we get a continuity of this episode
Great professional work!
that is so sick, such a clean job they did
I'm so happy I came across this channel. So cool to see. Me being the mechanic at a concrete company how many meters would that be? Just cerious also I can't imagine the cost to have that job done. Would have been a shit pile of overtime paid out I would think 👍🇨🇦🔧
I live north of Scarborough, Markham. I haven't driven down there in over a month and seeing this video makes me wanna drive by there now, traffic must've been bad around there since the shopping mall is right there on the west of that bridge.
I wish you had more subscribers, you do great videos.
Looking fwd to riding the new subway
Scarborough is not in the greater Toronto area, it is literally a part of the city of Toronto.
Companies like this should be working on future Metrolinx projects, they clearly know their stuff.
~ Amazing video !
We need more companies like Delsan to complete all of the other subway/LRT projects because at this rate everything else will probably take another 40 years
for real, so efficient!!
I can never let go of the fact The Empire State Building was built in 400 days.
very impressive. top notch professional work.
There was one crash on the SRT. There was one crash at Zoo train. In both cases they were closed. Crash at Dupont Station which was life ending. Keeps going for more decades.
The driver ran through three red lights on his second day of work and plowed into another train. That's different that derailment during normal operation of a line about to be decommissioned.
Very impressive.
Excavators have got to be one of best inventions 😊😊😊
Hope we live long enough to see the new Scarborough line.
Do you think the Leafs will win a Stanley Cup before they open this line?
😂😂😂
Hell yah, this is epic video for a job in Ontario Canada.
Nice stuff guys. Love this channel and the inside scoop, these guys work hard and I hate how construction guys get criticized for working slow. Would love to see some interviews with the engineer on site and how they work with the machine team to get these done safely.
The thing I have an issue with is that they’re not rebuilding the bridge once the subway construction is completed
it was a beautiful bridge to drive on.
Cry
Ya I dont understand that part lol
Great Job. Proud to be Canadian
Damn how am I only just finding this channel now
I saw this happen in real life. It felt like the largest construction project in Canada, with all excavators around, eating away at the bridge
Amazing!
They should have looped the subway from Kennedy back along Eglinton to Islington and the Airport instead of these LRT tracks above ground.. maybe even extending the old LRT in Scarborough that is not in operation anymore; although looping the subway is a better long term solution for mass transit. building airport line & downsview lines seem like a waste so far north on downsfiew, but they could even be incorporated into an Eglinton subway line. I also think they should tunnel the Allen Road extension that was planned and bring it down to Gardiner Express.. Oh and use shared curb lanes instead of bike lanes.. Danforth Sux now!!
Very fast in demolishing anything in Canada. Turtle pace in rebuilding and improving.
Its great that there's new stat, but the old stations are heavily neglected and take forever to maintain. Look at Islington station for example. Its been operating at 20% of its bus terminal for years. Trees are growing from the concrete roof resembling Chernobyl.
just fucking get it done! I was still young when they started all this and now I'm an old man! LOL
what is this magic Line 7 i've never heard of...
It's a city of toronto project called the "Eglinton East LRT"
@@WanukeX it's not under construction thought, it's just a future plan with no funding or date.
It's the bike lane from yonge to spadina
If you want to ride line 7 today, you'll be going up and down Bathurst Street. In a bus. 😂
great content
I live in Scarborough and its amazing to see this video. THanks!
i wonder what the cost was for taxpayers?
holy fcuk i drive by here everyday and i didn't even notice they took down dat overpass lolz so the LTR there is gonzo and replaced with underground subway?
Great ad for Delsan. The vague reason for the demolition is uhh, vague. 🤷🏻♂️
Just wish they'd actually consider extending Line 4 west to Sheppard West, thus opening up more transit options for people who don't live downtown...
The Jewish community at Bathurst don’t want it to
If only government construction was this fast :')
If every construction work in Toronto is completed this efficiently.
Thank you. An enjoyable video.
Cool. But this has been done even better….there’s a Timelapse video about a Danish company - they tore down a section of a highway and putting back the bridge over a weekend. Nothing new, nothing special. It’s all about how much money someone has to do things.
If only they took that long with all the construction in the city
20 years to get a new 3km subway we can do it !!
Isn't that the music from The Bachelorette?
big bucks for sure
The reason why they can do it fast is because it was a priority to do it fast
In pursuit of doing things cheaply we like to spread out a project allowing it to eat a smaller portion of the budget each year, same reason why you don't buy a car outright. However this makes the project more vulnerable to changing conditions like changes in leadership.
this method is a lot faster, however its much more expensive when pitching it as a solution, especially for large projects. Additionally it makes more short term jobs instead of fewer but more stable jobs which is generally preferred from a job creation perspective.
Now do I wish we did things like this more? yes, we're decades behind in where our transit should be, catching up should be a priority, spending a premium to do projects quickly is fine when we have want more projects that need completion (pending political/budgetary willpower)
Yo I've actually was curious about how they did this...
when was this particular bridge built? it was for pedestrian too… who is scrapping materials from it!
I’ve seen the beginning of this project now. No way I’ll see the finished project in my lifetime…
Finally make everything underground just makes it cleaner
Get these guys on the eglinton project, crosslinx was a miserable choice
Way better then the pathetic subway here in Montreal 😎👊
Imagine if they didnt fight Rob until he died. We probably would have had our extended subway system by now.
Don’t live too far from the demo. I didn’t know it was going to be demolished, and when I drove by a couple days later, it was like wow this is new and well done.
Is this an ad for Delsan?
what a contrast to Metrolink whose CEO could not even tell you when the crosstown line will be in-service. He said, we will tell you the date 3 months before the in-service date - Translation - I have lost complete control of the project schedule and budget. LOL
Can you please include metric in your future animations? We are in Canada.
COULD YOU FINISH THE EGLINGTON LRT FOR US PLEASE ?
even seeing this in a video it's hard to believe ........ if you're from Toronto, you know EXACTLY what I mean
Now why can't all the other construction crews working on the Gardiner, Spadina and Queen St. streetcar tracks etc. work this quickly and efficiently to start and finish a job so that they can go on to the next project and the public doesn't have to be inconvenienced for years?
In the time its taking for the renovation work being done on a part of the Gardiner, the Chinese would've been able to tear down the entire expressway and build a brand new one in probably less than a couple of years max.
Maybe Delsan does drug testing on its staff, better security on site too. This is also a 3 day quick and dirty job.
I don’t know much about the Spadina and Queen track work, but the Gardiner expressway work is not that simple. This bridge is a being completely torn down and the side is completely isolated. The Gardiner rehabilitation is being done on a bridge with active traffic on and below the site. Plus the bridge slabs need to be removed, the bridge rehabbed then replaced. Not the same as tearing down a bridge.
@@Kishanth.J
That's the thing though. If the current Gardiner is costing so much and is taking so long to rehab, then why not tear it down completely and rebuild it brand new with modern materials and modern building techniques so that it can last decades with less maintenance costs required?
As I said if you gave this project to a Chinese construction company they probably could tear down and build a brand new Gardiner in 2 years or probably even faster at a relatively affordable price compared to what our domestic construction companies are changing and how long its taking them to do anything.
Also I know it would never happen, but I wish they would tear down the Gardiner and rebuild it as a triple deck structure. First deck would be used as its current function of moving vehicles in and out of downtown Toronto. Second deck would be used as a true expressway that almost completely avoids downtown for those who simply want to travel east-west and not be tied up with downtown traffic. The top deck could be built to be a pedestrian and cycle park where people can get a great view the city from an elevated park similar to what they have in New York with the Highline park.
No one in Toronto would ever have the political will or vision to build such a thing, but I think it would be something cool for this city that's otherwise had much of its soul torn out and replaced with generic buildings.
@@UzumakiNaruto_ tearing it down and building a new one is not as simple as one might think. If the Gardiner was to be replaced in it entirety it would require years of studies, planning, public consultation and not to mention the opposition to it. The reason why maintenance for the expressway has been delayed this long is cause it expensive and it was owed by the city of Toronto. Which could afford it. The only reason it happening now is because the expressway is being uploaded to the province. Also a “Chinese company” wouldn’t automatically make the project better managed. The issues with high cost and long construction have to do with regulations and laws as well as safety protocols in Canada. These regulations aren’t bad, they are meant to keep construction safe and make sure buildings are built to a good standard. China is a authoritarian country so I doesn’t need to ask people permission to build, or to use other peoples land, or even bid for contracts. On the topic of you idea of a triple deck highway, that just not possible. Their is a reason why double deck highways aren’t built anywhere anymore. They don’t last long. Look at the Cypress Street Viaduct collapse. When the Gardiner was built the area around it was industrial and had seas of parking lists. Now it just a scar of unfinished urban highway planning. Cities like LA, Boston, Albany and Seattle removed their urban highways for various reasons but mostly cause their not as effective transportation options as they were though out to be.
@@UzumakiNaruto_How well do you think having no Gordimer for 2 years would work?
LOOKS like a 10 Million Dollars Contract at least
Surprised this didn’t take 2-years…
Why did the bridge have to come down to build a station! Just crazy! Where did they redirect the traffic going over the bridge!
Traffic can just use Elsemere, not far south of Progress
It's not a busy area . East of the demolition is some condos and they have alternate route to Ellesmere or McCowan Rd .
Can this be done by 2050?
Shame for the Toronto subway. The construction is so slow.
I'm so sorry, what is with the dramatic suspense music?! I feel like I'm watching an episode of The Challenge or something 😂😂😂
"24 hours, all hands on deck operation" my ass... This is Canada.
Maybe next time you should Google the difference between a ‘bridge’ and an ‘overpass’ 😉
All the works of 3 levels of government, the driven person is Doug Ford, PM of Ontario. I am hoping, since we pay taxes, all parks should be free parking in GTA, it doesn’t make sense to pay for parking visiting parks to relax after works or the weekends. The worst scenario is Edward garden park, Leslie and Lawrence ave east, you pay for parking but there is no flowers in the park, secondly all nurseries are not in a good shape, no flowers nothing. Smell the coffee !
This is ausome
Toronto Subway!!! Or is it Subway, Subway... the thing in a bun!!!!! 😅😅
That is awesome! The West needs to learn about mega-structures and mass labour coordination from China, which has mastered these quick construction turnarounds.
LOL IN HOW MANY YEARS WILL IT TAKE LIKE 50 YEARS BECAUSE TTC WORKERS AND CITY WORKERS DO LITTERALLY MAYBE 1HOUR OF WORK IN A 8-10 HOUR SHIFT
fun fact I live 5 minutes from here and had no idea this was happening.
Why? Make no mistake, I'm all for new transit construction, but this is *SO* Toronto. Destroy something perfectly functional, then take years to replace it, if ever.
It's going to become an intersection, apparently, so that buses can get in and out of the station
Because a majority doesn't own a car? Just because your rich enough to drive not everyone can afford it hence the subway
Because it’s a hostile urban environment that needs room to densify when the subway arrives
@@Vortexone112 If you read closely on the published details, it's for a staging area for construction crews, not for density reasons.
Yes all of Toronto is being destroyed right now…. These politicians and construction companies better know what they’re doing, because the citizens sure aren’t enjoying it.
If only metrolinx take a page out of there book ….thats what we need to build transit fast and reliable
Look subway development in SE Asia, notably Singapore and China. Compare it with Toronto
I really hope Toronto transit system beats New York and Tokyo transit system.
not even close. it is going in the right direction but we are decades behind. we dont even have a high speed rail yet!
New line to be finalized in 2049
"Progress is looking great" uh well your kinda making a big whole in Progress 🤣
Rarely seen Canadian speed
I hope i get my drivers licence 🥺
Train should go to Bramalea Go and to Square One
They demolished a bridge and you said something about a subway, but you never said why they're demolishing this bridge. What has the bridge got to do with the subway?
Can this company run the country please? and thank you 🙏
So now traffic has to find an alternative route around, when they could drive through
Was the bridge that heavy for the subway underground
More congestion some place else
The traffic on that bridge is insignificant compared to the riders on the subway. Plus those drivers might just use the new subway instead.
Easier to destroy than to create
Break not build can be done quickly
If i didnt live in toronto I'd believe you.