The overall design essentially calls for the elevated portion of the Gardiner as it approaches the Don River (Lakeshore Ramp) to drop to grade sooner than it currently does. Right now, at Don Roadway for example, the elevated Gardiner is still there and both the DVP and Lakeshore ramps are together as one deck 4 lanes wide. (If you want to exit on Lakeshore, you keep to the right and you hit grade just before Carlaw. (If you recall, 20 years ago or so, they demolished that part of the Lakeshore ramp that used to run all the way east of Leslie (it was going to connect to "the Scarbrorough Expressway", which was going to run in the hydro corridor right through the Beaches (yikes) and right on out to Scarborough. It never got built, but the ramp from the Gardiner to it was built in the 1960's.) Right now, if you want to go to the DVP, you keep to the left and if you want Lakeshore, you keep to the right and if you keep to the right, the elevated Gardiner drops down to grade around Logan / Carlaw (??).
This is the socalled "hybrid" design where you still have free flowing traffic to and from the DVP, but you are going to eliminate that portion of the elevated portion that currently leads to Lakeshore (as you are going eastbound). The portion to and from the DVP will remain elevated and free flowing, though the design calls for the ramp to the DVP to be moved to the north.
But the elevated portion of the Gardiner between Spadina and Cherry Street is to remain in its current configuration. (The tear down the Gardiner crowd wants to demolish the elevated portion from Spadina right on through.)
2 years ago, the City redecked the elevated portion of the Gardiner Expressway in the west from Dufferin (more or less) east to Spadina (more or less)
Then last year, the City reconstructed the York / Bay /Yonge off ramp from the eastbound Gardiner.
So all of that work is done.
In May of 2018, the City tendered a contract to replace the existing superstructure of the Gardiner from Jarvis to Cherry Street.
Here you go:
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2018/pw/bgrd/backgroundfile-115753.pdf
Flip to Page 19. Note that the contract has been tendered and AECON is the lucky bidder (they built the damn thing back when, though back then they were known as the Foundation Company of Canada, or just Foundation). Note how much money they left on the table compared to Dufferin.)
I can only assume that the City will then let a separate contact once the above work is done to remove and replace the Lakeshore / DVP Ramp.
But the Gardiner remains as a free flowing highway with an elevated structure. The only substantial change is eliminating the off ramp to Lakeshore east around Don Roadway.