{"id":4310,"date":"2015-10-14T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T21:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2015-10-14T16:27:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T21:27:37","slug":"sometimes-construction-is-what-you-don%e2%80%99t-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/14\/sometimes-construction-is-what-you-don%e2%80%99t-see\/","title":{"rendered":"sometimes construction is what you don\u2019t see"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sometimes<\/a><\/p>\n

In many areas of the vivaNext projects, construction work is definitely visible \u2013 especially on Davis Drive and along Highway 7 West. In others areas \u2013 such as Yonge Street \u2013 it\u2019s not quite so obvious. But work on Yonge Street has been going on this year for months<\/a>, and it\u2019s also starting up in phase 2 <\/a>of the Highway 7 West rapidway.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s some of what we\u2019ve been up to \u2013 a very important part of construction \u2013 utilities!<\/p>\n

there\u2019s a lot going on underground<\/strong><\/p>\n

Upgrading the utilities to prepare for<\/a> the growing population of York Region is a must. Plus, in order to upgrade utilities and widen the road for the rapidway, the existing utilities below the roadside have to be moved.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because locating, upgrading and relocating utilities<\/a> involves more than just building a road. And each utility has its own requirements<\/a>.<\/p>\n

utilities keep everything working<\/strong><\/p>\n

Utility work along the rapidway includes locating, removing and upgrading water mains and storm sewers<\/a>, removing old copper cable and installing fiber optic <\/a>cable for telecommunications, electricity, shutting down old gas mains<\/a> and installing new ones, and it also includes upgrades and reconstruction to bridges and culverts and moving and upgrading traffic signals and street lights.<\/p>\n

but first\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The first thing that happens along any new rapidway project is \u201cutility investigations,\u201d which means identifying where existing utilities are, to confirm what has to be moved. We can\u2019t upgrade them until we find them, and some utilities can be as old as the road – installed before towns began documenting utility locations. So if you see crews digging small test pits along Yonge, you\u2019ll know that\u2019s a utility investigation where crews are making sure the utilities are where we think they are, and checking out what condition they\u2019re in.<\/p>\n

Next time you\u2019re playing the game of Monopoly and you land on \u201cUtilities,\u201d feel lucky. \u201cUtilities\u201d are what keeps everything working at \u201cBoardwalk,\u201d \u201cPark Place\u201d and VivaNext!<\/p>\n

For emailed updates about the progress of the various vivaNext projects: click here to subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In many areas of the vivaNext projects, construction work is definitely visible \u2013 especially on Davis Drive and along Highway 7 West. In others areas \u2013 such as Yonge Street \u2013 it\u2019s not quite so obvious. But work on Yonge Street has been going on this year for months, and it\u2019s also starting up in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[563,943,588,587,586,114,589,590,61,443,431,442,48,7,562,60],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","tag-bridges","tag-construction","tag-culverts","tag-fiber-optic","tag-gas-main","tag-highway-7","tag-location","tag-relocation","tag-richmond-hill","tag-storm-sewer","tag-utilities","tag-utility","tag-vaughan","tag-vivanext","tag-water-main","tag-yonge-st"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","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=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}