Collision: SB DVP/ Bayview Bloor ramp.. 2 vehs involved. 1 veh has flipped over. No info on injs. Major traffic delay. #GO1876080 ^adc
— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) October 16, 2017
Updating messages indicate there are no injuries at this location but traffic is slowed
The Metrolinx show and tell in the rotunda of the Eglinton Centre Monday offered a warning that the single-lane status in all directions at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton also prohibits turns for about a month. By mid-November, it appears that turns will be permitted again although single lanes will still prevail. The meeting reviewed aspects of the station locations at Mt. Pleasant and Yonge and Eglinton. The 1920s CIBC building will be recreated at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton with many original elements although structurally it will be new. There will be three doors for the many passengers coming and going. They will be at the nearly-90 year-old portal on the corner, on Eglinton and on Mt. Pleasant. The depiction of the re-built bank continues to show the elegant Palladian window over the door. The LRT station at Yonge and Eglinton will be a new building west of Canada Square on the south side of Eglinton. Eglinton LRT station will sit to the west of Canada Square
Power was off to residents of Merton Street between Bayview Ave and Cleveland St. Monday as Davey Tree Service worked carefully to cut down a broken branch at mid-block. It had cracked in Sunday’s wind. Those wires normally carry enough juice to kill so Hydro took no chance as the tree work proceeded.
The intersection of Yonge St. and Lawrence Ave was shut down for an hour at midafternoon Monday as crews repaired a gas main rupture. Traffic was diverted at Woburn, Jedburgh, Duplex and Cheritan. There were no injuries. The corner is clear of all obstruction now.
Faculty at Ontario’s 24 colleges are walking picket lines today, with the labour dispute affecting more than 500,000 students in the province. The strike involving more than 12,000 professors, instructors, counsellors, and librarians began late Sunday, after the two sides couldn’t resolve their differences by a deadline of 12:01 a.m. Monday. Both sides say there are currently no talks scheduled to end the dispute. The colleges say they have put a four-year-agreement that offers a 7.75 per cent pay increase on the table which it would like faculty to vote on. The issue for OPSEU seems to be more permanent teachers which is framed as job security. Also this report with a slightly different skew from Ginella Mass. Quite touching attempt to grapple with this cultural oddity by a foreign student who has never seen such a thing in her homeland.
The Duchess of Cambridge joined Paddington for a dance on a station platform Monday during a surprise visit to a charity event. She and Princes William and Harry were at Paddington Station to meet a group of children who have been helped by their charities. While Harry did not seem keen to join the famous bear for a boogie, the Duchess appeared happy to join in.
The speed limit on Bayview Ave. below Pottery Rd. will be on the agenda at the Public Works Committee Wednesday where Councillor Burnside will argue to restore the limit from 50 to 60 km. The motion is expected to be voted on by Council on November 9, 2017. Here is a link to the Publics Works Committee’s agenda for the October 18, 2017 meeting:
Students were being warned to check websites and notices as faculty decided it was necessary to strike against community colleges in Ontario. Locally, George Brown College, Seneca College and Humber College have all announced that full-time, part-time and continuing classes will be cancelled until the strike is over. The union is the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). Toronto Sun
The staggering number of dead in the Somali capital is 276 people with about 300 others injured. The impoverished land is a frontier in the savage war against religious extremism that has gripped the world for more than 20 years. To the right, the new Chancellor of Austria will be a fresh-faced 31-year-old when he is sworn in this month. The continent is in a convulsion of revolt against refugees. Below that, City News is on Milvan Drive covering the killing of a 43-year-old marijuana shop attendant. What was it about? You may well ask. Finally, Thomas the Tank Engine, that durable steam powered boy is getting some girl power at the train yard. Could be good.
Toronto Hydro continues to struggle with multiple power outages across Toronto. One large outage as seen on its online map as a large irregular section of Etobicoke. It extends from nearly the Gardiner Espresseway to the 401. The utility has pledged that crews will work continuously until power is restored and warned that in some areas the blackout may last until Monday.
Crews will work until all power is restored.Please be prepared that some outages may last until tomorrow. We'll share these areas when avail
— Toronto Hydro (@TorontoHydro) October 15, 2017
A drone has hit a small passenger plane near Quebec City airport as it was landing. It appears to have been a recreational drone but the government has provided very little information about who was operating the drone or why it violated airspace. The minister, Marc Garneau, said the drone was flying at a height of about 450 metres or 1,500 feet. That’s 150 metres above the legal limit. The drone was also violating the airport perimeter of 5.5 kilometres and heliport perimeter of 1.8 kilometres. Mr. Garneau said he’s “extremely preoccupied” by the incident. “This should not have happened. That drone should not have been there,” he said. He confirmed that the aircraft, a Skyjet plane carrying eight, sustained minor damage and said he was relieved that no one was hurt. He said that “it could have been much more serious” and that if the drone had collided with the cockpit or the engine, the incident could have been “catastrophic.”
City News tells one harrowing tale from today’s high winds in which a man who calls himself AJ blacked out after a hydro pole collapsed on his Mercedes in Vaughan on Sunday. AJ tells City News he was driving slowly down Rutherford Road when he spotted the pole starting to fall south of Islington Avenue. He tried avoiding it, but it landed on his car and smashed through the windshield. Read on.
