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Stop Traffic On Galbraith Road And Preventing Tour Buses From Enterring

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Construction can have a large impact on its surroundings, including local residents, pedestrians and vehicular traffic depending on the site’s location. For example, many of the sites visited in Toronto affected traffic as they had frequent deliveries and had to stop traffic to allow this. This includes the Centre for Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto where frequent trucks enter and exit to remove excavated soil (***Special Lecture***), stopping traffic on Galbraith Road and preventing tour buses from enterring. On the other hand, outside the city, construction has far less of an impact as there are often multiple lanes for traffic, and little or no pedestrian traffic. When building in Toronto then, it is important to minimize construction’s effect on pedestrians, vehicle traffic, and local residents if present, since these parties are all impacted by the decisions made on site.
In our site visits, we examined many sites at varying stages of completion, and noticed how some of them dealt with construction’s effect on the surroundings, as will be discussed here:

Yorkville Plaza II (YP2) - 21 Yorkville Avenue - Developer: Camrost-Felcorp
This site is located in the heart of Toronto’s affluent Yorkville neighbourhood, and will be the home of a 40-storey condo building. It has a luffing crane on site, so overhead protection had to be installed for pedestrians on Avenue Road in the form of wooden boards. These wooden boards were placed on

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