Comment 87621

By Mal (anonymous) | Posted April 03, 2013 at 13:29:40

Patience should also be cultivated by those waiting for major infrastructure fixes to make complete streets a reality. A couple of paragraphs earlier in the the Globe article cited, the author writes:

"As on Bloor, the street had to be torn up for major work – in Roncey’s case, the laying of new streetcar tracks. The merchants took advantage of the opportunity to spruce up the streetscape."

In the case of Roncesvalles, needed roadwork enabled the city to start more or less from scratch:

The current $9.2-million phase of work, being carried out by Sanscon Construction, includes TTC track construction, transit platform construction, road reconstruction and resurfacing, sidewalk repair and streetscaping, including continuous soil trenches to give planted trees more root freedom.

The earlier work, carried out between July, 2009 and May of this year included water main and sewer replacement over the same 2km stretch of beleaguered road roughly between Queen and Dundas.

"More or less, all of the infrastructure was of an age that it needed significant repair or replacement," says John Kelly of the city's technical services division. "The surface works were the first to be identified as required, and we always try to co-ordinate any underground utility work with road reconstruction to maximize the life span of the road by minimizing the need to cut into it in the future."

http://www.yongestreetmedia.ca/devnews/roncesvalles1117.aspx

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