The Gardiner ExpressWay Eastbound Ramp Demolition 

Great idea for the metal ramps vs dumping onto the roadways like done so many times here in the States...Great job!

Cool to watch. Y'all did it so quick and efficiently, companies down here in the states would take 5yrs to do the same

Awesome to see a longer video!

Awesome team effort, your biggest asset is your workers. Thank You for taking the time to share this project with us. Play safe from Elliot Lake Ontario. Canada.

Better for it to be demolished than to have more pieces of it falling off onto cars or people. Good work!

Loved how you used the excavators that had the metal slopes on the top to redirect the rubble

Amazing Projects. You make the impossible look easy.

Love their work ethic, do whatever it takes to Safely get it done on time and on budget. Giant projects requires giant commitment from Demolition Contractor. Priestly is amazing.

Awesome seeing new content from you folks! Good on you, Russell, for following in your family's footsteps instead of sitting in front of a gaming console

Awesome job y'all did and it went as planned to love watching the videos keep on making them and I'll keep on watching them be safe and always be careful

Great to see the pride the whole crew takes in the job!

Awesome work.

Nice work!

Awesome video PDI at its best

Cool last time I was in T.O. I ripped the Gardner, and Young Street on a bright yellow enduro, I live out west so thanks for a bit of memories, look AMAZING

super video,bon job ,bravo a toute l 'équipe,salutation France..

Great vid! Watched you guys doing your stuff on the Victoria street bridge in Kitchener. Wam bam and gone. Impressive!

you guys came to my little town of smoothrockfalls ontario to dismantle our mill it had to go the best company to do it was you guys i was walleye fishing just below the dam watching you guy demolish the mill way back in 07 i think anyways good video great work with all the union brothers out there.b safe

Interesting to see my past finally changing (I'm 72) and hopefully get to see a new future. ... Cheers...

Always look forward to a PDI video! Love the length and detail you go into!

Great video. Always fun seeing the fleet out there working.

Loved this. How exciting!

Loved going by this to see the process and progress in action 🎬 great job everyone involved on this project

Another brilliant video from the Priestley team, great work I love following your company and seeing the work you do, from Rye Demolition in the UK 🇬🇧 👍

When a team works well together it's a mesmerizing ballet. No oversteps, no congestion, no time delays: I would imagine someone earned a bonus.

WELL DONE! oh and the bridge demolition was pretty good too!

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This would be a good video if the volume of the music did not conflict with the volume of the engineers' explanations. I gave up after two minutes.

I wonder how much Planning actual timeline on planning it took two set everything up figure out what equipment did you need it out there staggering just the amount of fuel they used out there

I really like how this project was done, key things like order, organization, coordination, precision, and the most important communication. Congratulations.

Toronto's lakefront is an eyesore. They should take Chicago's ideas they have a beautiful lake front

We love ourselves a good and well executed demo !

Momina is gorgeous! I got to witness the opposite of this for the last year years. We had a new bridge being built and it was fun to watch.

This would be an AWESOME project to replicate with our RC equipment, IF we can get our demo hammer to function properly on our 14th scale RC equipment!

Cool video👍👍👍 what was that big deep hole that I saw ?? Sewer or ??

Great Video!!! its nice to see the process. I drive down that way almost every night hitting up Redpath at 4am. Great Job PDI crew and have a Happy New Year!!!!

Why the 3D modelling analysis was needed in demolition? A 2d modelling or a frame analysis will also help, i guess. But that was a great piece of information. You got a new subscriber!!!!

I grew up not far from the expressway and is it ever weird not seeing the on/off ramp.

In the UK we call a ramp a sliproad Also loving your video

nice to see how you also use modern techniques as quick oil exchange pieces will make a lot of differences

Looks like a very professional team of people.

what year did you have to travel back to in order to find this music

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IUOE gets it done!

What an amazing company. Proud to call themselves Canadian. Way to go Priestly group.

Always enjoy the show. Can hardly wait for the new season.

Impressive work guys 👍

Any particular reason the deck wasn't saw cut and taken out in slab sections between girders?

Was the concrete crushed and recycled? What was the value of the scrap rebar and steel beams?

Another great project undertaken and completed by PDI...love seeing the next generation of Priestly's getting involved as well...a true family business!!!! Loved seeing the adaptation of the excavators into protection & guides for the rubble from the deck demo above...ingenuity at its finest...which is something that stands out in a lot of the PDI projects...ingenuity and adaptation...brilliant and what seemingly sets PDI apart from others within the industry!!!! Should I ever move back to Canada...would certainly be looking to work with such a professional company as Priestly's are!!!! Cheers from Aus and keep up the great work!!!! Happy New Year by the way 😁😁😁😁 and all the best wishes for a prosperous & safe 2022!!!!

Unthinkable? That doesn't exist in the world of engineering. With the right planning, equipment and manpower anything is possible.

Nice job crew 👍niw that’s some incredible demonstration of experienced crews

Was this a 24/7 job over the weekend? Great work!

what kind of mess is left for the traffic, hate to see what the plan is from the city

Does anyone know how many km this section was?

Why was it demolished?

if only that bridge could talk...the stories it would tell...so much 'substances' transported over its lifetime..lol

When was this done

Good video at first I thought it was in the U.S. part of the infrastructure deal

Perfect team, perfect planning & execution, amazing equipment and skilled operators, excellent "video" but absolutely terrible "audio", the choice of music and loudness has destroyed everything.

So is the Gardiner Expressway going to be rebuilt?

Thanks for sharing and it is great to see such professional work taking place. You might want to ponder having the intrusive music. Best of luck!

Have used the GE many times over the many years that I have visited Toronto - can someone explain why there was a need to remove this structure that seems to have been extremely well built given the effort to demolish it ?? Also why was the work done on weekends when clearly the GE couldn't be used as it was being broken up ? Best Wishes from Australia.

Excellent work! Job well done! That was a massive amount of concrete to hammer! Did you have to replace any hammers on the track hoes? Or did they all hold up under all that use? The amount of rebar and tonnage of steel beams was unreal, were the steel beams all scrapped ? Thanks for sharing your work with this video! Hope you do more longer videos in the future! 👍👋

It's always fun watching things getting demolisched. But what is the reason for this demolition? Is the bridge obsolete?

Interesting video, music? Not so much. The work is interesting enough to nix the music. If you have to have the music lower the levels against the speaking. I was adjusting up and down so I wasn’t turned off by the music but wanted to hear the speaking.

Your description doesn't say where this was.

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Why did they closed that section on Lakeshore

Wait til you guys have to demolish the next section...

Co ordination of work skills always works well especially in big jobs like this , everyone clued in to their respective job .

I watched ur guys show Salvage Kings said it never renewed after the 2nd season

Look up the Alaska way viaduct in Seattle. same as this if not bigger.

Those custom mobile articulated debris shields at 1:06 are really neat!

All the Big Shots got to stand around with their flunkies and look important.

I wonder how much scrap value they got for the steel!

why did they tear it down? now it seems like its just street level and stopping at Lights compared to driving right through. is something else going to be built?

More of a music video than a demolition documentary.

This is the first time I've seen any video in this series. I've looked at it, and I still don't know what city this is!!!!

Nice video! How long ago was this demolition done? I have not traveled down in that area in several years.

Do y'all recycle everything ? Great job y'all !

In New South Wales it would take us longer than 5 months, let alone 5 weekends, to work out what name to call this project.

Loved seeing a longer video, amazing work . They need to do a big dig like Boston did then tear the rest of that shit hwy down lol cheers .

I've never seen those excavators with chutes mounted on them. Creative idea!

I remember Lakeshore all clogged up traffic hardly moved back in the 60s and than things got running well when the Gardner Express Way was done -Lived at Indian Grove High Park area

hope you get the contract for the rest of the ugly thing soon

Obviously, no job goes perfectly smoothly. I wonder what hurdles or unexpected roadblocks these guys encountered during the teardown?

London bridge,s falling down but this is happening in Canada

Fast and efficient. Shame it’s not being torn down to Jarvis.

This makes as much sense as cutting off your feet so that you don't have to buy a bigger pair of shoes.

The title should include a location. I had to look up the expressway's name to find the location...why?

This kind of demolition and upgrading of highways in US was done 50 years ago. Glad Canadians are catching up.

The video feels like a Reality TV show. Was expecting them to have "challenges" and fake obstacles to create drama.

Why does the music sound like it was scored by a Ford commercial?

So impressive! Now please take down the rest of this awful eyesore.

Hopefully the ramp will be rebuilt wider and better.

What's with the heavy metal soundtrack?

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Why did they demolish it?!

Great video but had to watch it on mute. Audio was way too loud