Normally what happens with such procedures is that partial shutdowns are done at the intersection, but the radical method of replacing the tracks all in one pre-fab piece demands that the whole x/y traffic be stopped. The section is pre-welded and dropped whole into place which makes it an easier job than recreating the assembly piece-by-piece on location.
This is how the streetcar tracks were all changed-over at the intersection of King and Church, back in the summer of 2004. I happened to be walking by/through when the big crane was dropping the track section into place. I wished I had my camera.
Since these days I'm down at that intersection a few times a week I will make sure that I don't miss this one.
"King-Spadina intersection to close for two weeks"
http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/08/01/kingspadina_intersection_to_close_for_two_weeks.html
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...while Toronto core delivery drivers curse floridly!
As if King isn't already a nightmare enough.
Yeah, in my original draft of the posting I had a final paragraph saying something like "a lot of people will be upset, but the work has to be done sometime".
As I've been known to say, "the math is simple": There are too many condo towers going up in that area. It's literally out of control.
"Urban Planning?... what's that?"
Or, as Archie Bunker once said, as he fanned a small deck of cash: "Money talks, Meathead."
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