Jatt
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Breaking news on Star's site, never really let the recent spats bother me when I ride Lakeshore under the thing but may just use alternate routes until they sort that concrete dinosaur out.
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Concrete Falls Off Gardner Smashing Car Windshield
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Hopefully no one was injured...I always wonder about it when I ride underneath the thing but will probably look for alternates for the time being...plus I don't think there's a quick fix for this one and they won't be able to ignore it or just do some patch jobs and call it safe.
Lawsuit!!
killerkeith
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Johnny5
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wtf.. when you go to thestar.com website right now they have the giant head "falling concrete from Gardiner Expressway hits car", then directly below that is a photo with the caption "i'm giving up hope on whether they're going to find them alive".. but that pic is for the story about the mall roof which collapsed in Elliot Lake yesterday. Tell me that wasn't intentional sensationalism on their part to make the Gardiner story seem more shocking at first glance...
This is the kind of thing you expect the Sun to do, but not the Star.. They will probably edit it later so i screen capped it, look at this..
This is the kind of thing you expect the Sun to do, but not the Star.. They will probably edit it later so i screen capped it, look at this..
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I noticed that myself ... I'd give them the benefit of the doubt and say the Gardiner headline probably replaced one directly related to the Algo Centre story.
Appropriate.
"Three lanes of Lakeshore Blvd. at Yonge St. have been closed off after falling concrete damaged a lawyer's black Mercedes around 10:30 a.m. this morning."
nesobriquet
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Best thing they can do with that thing now, financially (in order to fend off severe gridlock) is do away with the ceiling height that allows trucks to use it, by building an entire supporting redundant substructure around existing piers. Have a light duty (read cheap) roof that collects the odd pc of falling concrete. Next would be to limit trucks up top to a very light payload. This would reduce significantly the shaking and torquing/vibrating of it, thereby extending its life.
Next would be to NOT is any more salt up top. Use clean sand only.
With those efforts, the rebar is still going to continue to expand and break off concrete, due to corrosion expansion, but it would buy enough time (hopefully) to get the majority of users now used to counting on some other type of transportation infrastructure.
Long term best case scenario but still hugely expensive, would be to have trucks (heavy loads) restricted to the bottom and light vehicles up top. The cost to build for a light load compared to heavy, is outta this world less.
Next would be to NOT is any more salt up top. Use clean sand only.
With those efforts, the rebar is still going to continue to expand and break off concrete, due to corrosion expansion, but it would buy enough time (hopefully) to get the majority of users now used to counting on some other type of transportation infrastructure.
Long term best case scenario but still hugely expensive, would be to have trucks (heavy loads) restricted to the bottom and light vehicles up top. The cost to build for a light load compared to heavy, is outta this world less.
Something to think about. Your not likely to get hit by falling concrete, but there is the problem of having one or more pieces of concrete(who knows what sizes they might be) laying about in a lane, or pieces getting hit by a car and flying across your lane or directly at you. You might not even see it coming
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