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Originally Posted by ericmacm
Yup seems like it. Hamilton will have some early utility relocation work starting at one major intersection next week, whereas it looks like full segments of TramCité are already under construction in Quebec City.
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For Hamilton, it's a cascading series of projects leading up to actual LRT construction.
First, Main Street needs to be converted to two-way travel to enable the parallel King Street LRT corridor to accommodate construction. Right now King and Main act as parallel one-way couplets. But for the horrible linear rubble pile that is Main Street to be converted to bidirectional travel, it needs to be substantially rebuilt from the sub-bed up. Since they're tearing it up, extremely overdue major water and sewer infrastructure work is being done under Main. To do that, they need to do the utility relocation work. And to do that, they need to do utility locate work, since the as-built drawings of what's under Main are hilariously incomplete and out of date.
They're beginning to make progress on Main and then they will do it all over again on King (utility locate-relocate/sewer-water infrastructure reconstruction/road reconstruction from the sub-bed up) to prepare the corridor for the LRT project itself. But all that work on King is part of the LRT project (it was what was contracted earlier this year and is about half the total project cost).
Essentially, the LRT is triggering Hamilton's largest downtown utility/civil inf/roadwork project in a couple of generations (and it shows). They're also finally doing stupendously overdue roadwork on Barton street, the city's other major east-west thoroughfare. It turns out that spending nothing on road and civil engineering for more than half a century on your city's main urban streets and designating them heavy-duty truck routes until a year ago, was a
really bad idea.
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