INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS TORONTO SECTION

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1 INSIDE THIS ISSUE INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS Upcoming Events 1. Union Station Renovation Tour and Afternoon Social July 27, 2012 Past Events 1. ITE Toronto Section Spring Luncheon Friday, May 4, 2012 Holiday Inn, 7095 Woodbine Avenue, Markham 2. ITE Student Traffic Bowl Mixer May 16, 2012 University of Toronto CITE Conference and Annual General Meeting May 27 30, 2012 Winnipeg, Manitoba Upcoming Events Union Station Renovation Tour and Afternoon Social - Friday, July 27, 2012 ITE Toronto Section is pleased to offer ITE Toronto Members an exclusive opportunity to receive a guided tour of the Union Station renovation site! ITE Toronto Section is your backstage pass to visit one of the most complex construction projects in the city, which is currently going on beneath the busiest transportation hub in the country. The Union Station renovation is a multi year construction project that will add a new concourse level within the station allowing easier access for the approximately 200,000 people that pass through the station every day. The additional concourse requires a dig down of the basement of approximately 3 4 metres, all while maintaining a rail operation above! Our tour guides will take us through the depths of the dig down area while giving us an overview of the innovative construction methods being used. Time permitting; attendees may also get a brief glimpse of the renovation of Union Station s western office block, which is undergoing a significant restoration to bring it back to its former glory

2 Upcoming Events (cont.) The tour will be held on Friday July 27th 2012 at approximately 3pm and will last approximately 1 to 1.5 hours. After the tour, attendees will have the option of heading out to a pub in the area for a few drinks with fellow tour mates and members of your ITE Toronto Section executive. This will provide a great opportunity for everyone to continue networking while discussing the Union Station project. Note that a hard hat, safety vest, safety glasses, and steel toe boots are required. We are asking that attendees bring their own steel toes and hard hats. The remainder of the safety equipment can be provided. If you are unable to borrow or obtain your own steel toe boots and hard hat please contact us and we will try and accommodate. Given the complex and confined nature of the construction site, attendance of the tour is limited at 30 people. So space is extremely limited. If you are interested in attending please contact our activities coordinator Farhad Shahla by at Farhad.Shahla@mississauga.ca or by phone at (905) ext Attendees will be signed up on a first come first serve basis, so don t delay. Sign up now to make sure your spot is reserved. Past Events ITE Toronto Section Spring Luncheon - Friday, May 4, 2012 Markham, Ontario The Annual ITE Toronto Spring Luncheon was held on Friday, May 4, 2012 in Markham. Our guest speaker, Judy Knight, Vice President of 2...

3 Past Events (cont.) GO Transit Capital Infrastructure, gave a presentation about GO Transit s current capital projects, the Air Rail Link, Mobility Hubs, and the PRESTO cards. Among GO capital projects, she spoke about the various Union Station revitalization projects, including its multi level concourse arrangements; train glass shed roof, track improvements, and the replacement of the Union Station Rail Corridor (USRC) 1920s era signaling system to provide for flexibility for GO service future growth, improved reliability, and faster service recoverability. within the GO stations, Don Valley Parkway bus by pass shoulder lanes, new Pickering GO Station, Erindale and Clarkson multi storey parking structures, Cooksville mobility hub, Oshawa new bus maintenance facility as well as Brampton and Halton Region s bus storage facilities. After lunch, our ITE Toronto Section President, Mark Jamieson, also gave a brief presentation letting everyone know what the upcoming Toronto Section events are for the months of July. In addition, she walked the participants through recently opened, and future GO facilities / Metrolinx projects such as Pickering and Burlington Pedestrian Bridges, Electric Vehicle charging stations ITE Toronto Section would like to thank Judy Knight of Metrolinx and all the professionals who attended the Spring luncheon for making it a big success. 3...

4 Past Events (cont.) ITE Student Traffic Bowl Mixer Wednesday, May 18, 2012 University of Toronto ITE Toronto Section hosted a Traffic Bowl Social Mixer event on May 18th at O Grady s pub on College Street in Toronto in support of the University of Toronto s (UofT s) Traffic Bowl team. The event was to help the UofT Traffic Bowl team prepare for the national Traffic Bowl competition at the CITE Conference in Winnipeg. During the event, everyone played a game in which the UofT team got to face off against other students and ITE members answering various transportation trivia questions similar to the traffic bowl. ITE Toronto Section provided some appetizers for the attendees as a reward for helping UofT s Traffic Bowl team. The event was a great way to allow the UofT team to practice before the main event and was well attended by a mix of industry representatives and other students from UofT and Ryerson University. Our special thanks go to the UofT ITE Student Chapter President, Erin Toop, for helping to coordinate the event! 2012 CITE Conference and Annual General Meeting May 27-30, 2012 Winnipeg, Manitoba What a great conference at the centre of Canada Winnipeg! Compliments to the Winnipeg Local Arrangements Committee (LAC) for putting on a great conference especially for the free Kobo The ITE Toronto Section President, Mark Jamieson, attended the event on behalf of the ITE Toronto Section. As section president Mark sits on the CITE Board of Directors and participated in the annual CITE Board of Directors Meeting at the conference. In addition, your 2012 Vice President (Nixon Chan) and Student Chapter Liaison (Angela Gibson) attended the conference on behalf of the Toronto Section Executive. A highlight of the event was the 3rd Annual CITE Traffic Bowl! We are pleased to announce University of Toronto team successfully defended the championship and brought the cup (plus the chocolate truck) back to the Toronto Section! They beat UBC and UNB in two rounds to claim the champion. Congratulations to Jason Zhou, Jared Duivestein, and Sarah Salem on their victory! 4...

5 Past Events (cont.) Left to Right: Jared Duivestein, Sarah Salem Jason Zhou The University of Toronto traffic bowl team will now go onto the 2012 ITE International Conference and Exhibit in Atlanta to compete against collegiate champions from different ITE districts in the United States. The UofT team finished second place last year in St. Louis. We hope they will improve and bring home another cup back to Toronto on behalf of the Canadian District. We wish them the best of luck!!! 5...

6 ITE Contact Information If you or one of your colleagues are not receiving the monthly ITE Journal, the quarterly CITE Transportation Talk, periodic web communication correspondence from CITE, and/or the ITE Toronto Section Newsletters, then the contact information we have may not be up to date in our respective databases. ITE International, CITE and the ITE Toronto Section maintain separate membership databases. Every effort is made to keep the three databases in agreement ; however, there are instances where changes in membership have not been instituted across the databases. contact information is correct, then there is no need to confirm mailing address information. Do You Have any interesting transportation related articles or photos that you would like to see in our newsletter? Send them electronically to our Communications Coordinator Hossein Zarei at Hossein.Zarei@AECOM.com. Have any questions for the ITE Toronto Section? Contact our President Mark Jamieson at Jamieson@bagroup.com or Vice President Nixon Chan at ChanN@mmm.ca. For ITE Journal, Invoicing and other ITE international correspondence, Transportation Talk, and the Web Communications Centre, your current contact information can be viewed and changed at on the right hand side of the home page, either under login/logout or by logging into ITE Community. It provides information on what your login and password are based on your ITE membership number and name. For ITE Toronto Section Newsletters, your current contact information can be checked with our Membership Coordinator Sean Nix by at snix@toronto.ca or by phone at (416) The ITE Toronto Section distributes their correspondence solely by e mail. If you are receiving the Toronto Section newsletters and your e mail 6...

7 Your ITE Toronto Section 2012 Executive President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Student Chapter Liaison Communications Coordinator Membership Coordinator Activities Coordinator Past President Mark Jamieson BA Consulting Group Ltd. Nixon Chan MMM Group Ltd. Mehemed Delibasic Delcan Corporation Matthew Davis IBI Group Angela Gibson York Region Hossein Zarei AECOM Canada Ltd. Sean Nix City of Toronto Farhad Shahla City of Mississauga Rahul Mehra IBI Group Tel: (416) ext. 160 Fax: (416) Tel: (905) ext Fax: (905) Tel: (416) Fax: (905) Tel: (416) Fax: (416) Tel: (905) ext Tel: (905) ext. 290 Fax: (905) Tel: (416) Fax: (416) Tel: (905) ext Fax: (905) Tel: (416) Fax:(416)