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GO Transit rail expansion

…at Old Weston and Junction Roads.

What Diesel-powered piledrivers damaging homes and sending brain-rattling shock waves through the Junction. Bang, bang, bang, they’ve been going all day, every day for months (on weekends, too) starting at 7:30 in the morning.

It wouldn’t be so bad if…

Electric trains, instead of greenhouse-gas-spewing diesel monsters, were planned for the expanded rail corridor once work’s done. Harried residents sacrificing sleep for the sake of shaving travel time for 905ers should be rewarded with, say, a stop on the route so they can use it. We’re already spending a cool $277 million. Why not?

What GO’s promised:

To use vibrating hammers and augers to bore holes (about 20 per cent of the time) to keep the shock to a minimum.

On the downstroke:

Work has fallen badly behind schedule. The agreed-upon 4 pm quitting time is kaput. Residents have been informed that work hours will be extended to 7 pm, including Saturdays, effective this weekend. Work on the line isn’t scheduled to be completed until December 2011. Can you say lawsuit?

Junction noise pollution from NOW Magazine on Vimeo.

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