Ouvrages d'art - Antenne Rive-Sud

[Rocco]

3 minutes ago, Enalung said:

Weren't they also doing archeological excavations near there?

Maybe the city should have bought the land and turn it into the 34th Pointe-à-Callière pavillion. Wherever there's a will, theres a way. Right??

[SameGuy]

Photo h/t @Rocco. As you can see they had trouble stabilizing the foundation of the pillar. No other columns in 20+ km of aerial structure have extra shoring piles at the base.

[Rocco]

4 hours ago, SameGuy said:

Photo h/t @Rocco. As you can see they had trouble stabilizing the foundation of the pillar. No other columns in 20+ km of aerial structure have extra shoring piles at the base.

Thanks. Very curious. Maybe there was a pound or a river going there before. Maybe a history buff can bring out an old map 😅

[Enalung]

18 minutes ago, Rocco said:

Thanks. Very curious. Maybe there was a pound or a river going there before. Maybe a history buff can bring out an old map 😅

The short version is that most of the land beyond the railway did not exist prior to the 1800s. There's a map in this article that shows just how much landfill happened over the decades.

http://spacing.ca/montreal/2010/12/27/down-in-the-dumps-of-pointe-saint-charles-history/

This article also offers a few details about the contamination issues of the area. This is why the REM was built on pillars in this area rather then the tunnel which was initially planned.

[Rusty]

Yes I believe that pillar touched Irish burial grounds from the mid 1800s (mass garve)

[Rocco]

7 minutes ago, Enalung said:

The short version is that most of the land beyond the railway did not exist prior to the 1800s. There's a map in this article that shows just how much landfill happened over the decades.

http://spacing.ca/montreal/2010/12/27/down-in-the-dumps-of-pointe-saint-charles-history/

This article also offers a few details about the contamination issues of the area. This is why the REM was built on pillars in this area rather then the tunnel which was initially planned.

The maps listed in the article shows that this specific pillar we are talking about was built on original ground and not wasteland, like the south portion. So the investigation is still on...

3 minutes ago, Rusty said:

Yes I believe that pillar touched Irish burial grounds from the mid 1800s (mass garve)

Why would that need a reinforcement? 

[Rusty]

not sure ?  

[Kotar]

If I had to guess why it took so long, based on the history of all travaux in Montreal, this pillar was built on top of a collector-sewer or a high-pressure aqueduct, and once construction started they found that the pipe was in a worse condition than they expect, so they had to fix that first, then build the pillar.

[champdemars]

Il y a 20 heures, Rocco a dit :

Why would that need a reinforcement? 

Peut-être pas tant à cause de la géologie du terrain, mais plus car ils ont dû faire des travaux archéologiques dans le fond, donc ça a nécessité un puits plus grand que nécessaire?

 

 

 

[Rusty]

I’m so right and good 😌