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Waterfront Toronto – Light Rail Transit Extension, Cherry Street Portal

Providing road, track, and tunneling design for a transformative project

  • Toronto, Ontario

    Toronto, Ontario

Design that connects communities to the waterfront with improved access and public spaces

Waterfront Toronto is developing transformative infrastructure to reconnect Toronto’s downtown community with its waterfront. Their plans integrate urban ecology, active transportation, and place-making while creating flexibility in the street design. As part of the Waterfront East light rail transit (LRT) extension, Waterfront Toronto selected us, along with landscape architecture and urban design firm PUBLIC WORK, to design the Queens Quay East Extension, Cherry Street portal, and LRT expansion along Cherry Street and Commissioners Street.

We carried out design services for a new portal adjacent to Cherry Street that passes under the existing Union Station rail corridor connecting transit from Distillery Loop into the new Villiers Island. Our work? Civil, transportation, geotechnical, and environmental services—with arborists, archaeology, and heritage assessments and planning—and architecture. We also delivered water and wastewater services that included tunneling, costing, and embodied carbon.

Our design provides an inspiring connection that will furnish better waterfront access for people, increase mobility options, improve public space, and connections between the waterfront and surrounding neighborhoods.

At a Glance

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Client
  • Waterfront Toronto
Partners
  • PUBLIC WORK
Meet Our Team

Kenneth Poon, Senior Associate

Taking time to understand the client’s objectives is a vital step in the problem-solving process—it helps identify possible solutions.

Terry Wilk, Principal

I love working within a multidisciplinary team – bringing together the best ideas to solve the design challenge. It’s creativity at work!

Kenneth Poon

Senior Associate

Terry  Wilk

Principal

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