There is an old saying that you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs. When it comes to Osgoode Hall, however, Metrolinx engineers seem to think the only way to break the eggs is to destroy the whole kitchen. The fight over the trees at the corner of Queen St. W. and University Ave. is not about the trees and the trees alone, it’s about the impact a new subway station is going to have on the entire intersection.
Specifically, the lack of community benefit agreements for young people to get work in affected communities and just as importantly the obligation to build affordable housing at Ontario Line stations have not yet been secured. Metrolinx has argued in court that the trees need to be cut-down on the weekend because chainsaws would disturb proceedings when the province’s top court is in session. Ontario’s Superior Court of Appeal’s only hearing room is at the most fragile corner of Osgoode Hall and right on the edge of the giant construction site. For 10 years the hole will also be where tunnelling debris will be removed from across the downtown core.
Across the street is the Ballet-Opera House with its beautiful acoustics. The facility rests on huge suspension discs anchored into the bedrock that Metrolinx is about to blast. Metrolinx claims to have resolved issues but the Opera House is not confident and very worried.
TOAdamVaughan The problem with Metrolinx is an open purse policy between contractors and their friends who are doling out the tax money 💰.
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