Byron Martin’s house is now filled with Post-it notes all over his walls, but they aren’t reminders aimed at keeping his latest film project coming together.

Instead, they represent his house falling apart — marking a new set of cracks he says are due to recent construction related to the Eglinton Crosstown project. Martin says it’s had the most impact on his house of any work on the LRT line in the last few years.

“It’s just unimaginable to have to deal with the sheer shaking and vibration for eight hours a day,” the film producer said.

Martin, who is recovering from a significant operation a few weeks ago, says he was jolted out of bed at 7 a.m. earlier this month by loud machinery just metres behind his bedroom, sending vibrations through his entire home on Chaplin Crescent near Eglinton Avenue West

He says one thought has occurred to him while lying in bed at night: “Is my whole wall going to fall off?” 

Workers for Crosslinx Transit Solutions, the consortium Metrolinx hired to build the Eglinton Crosstown, were busy drilling a concrete slab that previously secured a crane. But what was even more alarming was the significant damage and separation he says he began to see on the walls of his house throughout the week.

Susan Sperling, a spokesperson for Crosslinx, says the consortium conducted tests in response to concerns from residents of a handful of Chaplin Crescent homes and “results repeatedly verified that noise and vibration levels were within the allowable limits.”

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