Railway Track & Structures - October 2008 - (Page 43) Replacing a bridge in only 6 hours by Tom Judge, editor Using a unique lifting method, a new bridge added a third track to a busy Toronto commuter line with only a six-hour window early on a Sunday morning. T rack time is always precious, even more so on a line such as GO Transit’s Lakeshore West corridor that handles 60,000 commuters a day in metropolitan Toronto. With increasing ridership making more capacity a necessity, GO decided to add a third track. One potential bottleneck was the Credit River Bridge, but engineers were able to meet that challenge. According to GO Transit, “The Credit River Bridge along the GO Transit Lakeshore West corridor was widened the weekend of August 9-10 to improve rush hour service. The process took just six hours and new and innovative technology was used to install the pre-assembled bridge section, which adds a third main line track to the existing two-track bridge.” The third track addition is part of a project to widen the Lakeshore West line to improve peak period service for the 60,000 GO Transit commuters who travel in and out of downtown Toronto each day. The Credit River Bridge was assembled near its new site, then moved into position and lowered into place. GO Transit carries 60,000 commuters over the Credit River every work day. (All photos courtesy Western Mechanical Electrical Millwright Services.) Railway Track & Structures October 2008 43 www.rtands.com http://www.rtands.com
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