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Image shows crews pouring the concrete.
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Check out video of record concrete pour for Finch West LRT project

As progress goes, it was a concrete effort by teams working on the new Toronto light rail transit line. Metrolinx News brings you new pictures of the mammoth effort to put down enough concrete to have 118 cement trucks working in rotation. Here’s what that added up to. This was a bit bigger than the concrete mix you needed for those backyard fence posts. This … Continue reading Check out video of record concrete pour for Finch West LRT project

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Crews move concrete around a site.
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Line up those trucks – You won’t believe how much concrete was recently used on Crosstown’s Mount Pleasant station

As we continue to regularly chart the progress of the Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) route across Toronto, this update is an interesting bit of engineering math – involving how much concrete you can pour in just 11 hours. Hint – it involves more trucks than can likely ever park on your street. Talk about a solid effort. Crews working on Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown Light … Continue reading Line up those trucks – You won’t believe how much concrete was recently used on Crosstown’s Mount Pleasant station

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