{"id":2336,"date":"2011-12-23T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T14:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2011-12-23T09:29:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T14:29:27","slug":"davis-drive-%e2%80%93-noticeable-change-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/23\/davis-drive-%e2%80%93-noticeable-change-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Drive \u2013 noticeable change in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yrrtc.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2067\" title=\"Davis Drive in 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Dec23_blog.jpg\" alt=\"Davis Drive in 2011\" width=\"450\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Davis Drive was a busy place in 2011, with lots of noticeable work done to prepare for rapidway construction. Rapidways will be built from Yonge Street to just past the hospital, and most of our work has been along this section.<\/p>\n<p>Davis Drive will be widened starting in 2012, and we needed to do a few big things first: build retaining walls, widen the Keith Bridge, and relocate utilities.<\/p>\n<p>Widening Davis Drive will mean moving sidewalks and boulevards farther apart. In locations along the south side of Davis Drive where the ground slopes toward the road, retaining walls were needed so that we can move utilities. Five retaining walls are now built using stone blocks or textured concrete, with railings to be added to walls over two feet in height.<\/p>\n<p>A new section of the Keith Bridge was built in 2011, including 106 tonnes of rebar steel reinforcements, and 110 truckloads of poured cement. Even though the final touches are still to come, the historical architectural features are noticeable in the new bridge construction. The Keith Bridge will be fenced this winter, and traffic will move to this bridge section at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Utilities, such as hydro, gas, sewage, and telecommunication lines, need to be moved to prepare for road widening, and in some cases they needed to be relocated as part of the Keith Bridge or retaining wall construction. Geotechnical testing \u2013 examining the condition and consistency of road and boulevard surfaces \u2013 has also been underway along Davis Drive so that our engineers know what to plan for when they widen the road.<\/p>\n<p>This winter our contractors are working on 2012 construction schedules and continuing with utility relocation and geotechnical testing. When warmer weather arrives we\u2019ll be ready to begin widening Davis Drive, and you\u2019ll begin to see the overall transformation of Davis Drive into a welcoming urban place.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays everyone \u2013 we\u2019ll see you in 2012!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davis Drive was a busy place in 2011, with lots of noticeable work done to prepare for rapidway construction. Rapidways will be built from Yonge Street to just past the hospital, and most of our work has been along this section. Davis Drive will be widened starting in 2012, and we needed to do a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,53],"tags":[40,39,943,92,49,34,6,7,9],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-general","tag-brt","tag-bus-rapid-transit","tag-construction","tag-davis-drive","tag-newmarket","tag-rapidway","tag-viva","tag-vivanext","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}