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Their updated official service targets are slightly more ambitious than what you’re predicting. 7.5 minute service will run all day on the UP Express, and during peak hours on LW, LE. 15 minute service will expand to: Burlington Bramalea Maple Unionville Oshawa 30 minute service will run to...

I personally don’t think the platforms look bad, a lot of major train stations have less grand, more utilitarian platforms outside the main canopy, and that’s what these new platforms are. All of the remaining Union platforms outside the main canopy will look similar to what’s being built in...

Added! You’re correct, it’s the only escalator involved in this project. Its purpose and placement is likely to help the uneven crowd distribution on the eastern platforms. This is the first entrance 20 coaches worth of people will have access to, and the distribution of riders on Lakeshore...

The USEP project page on the city AIC page got updated with a bunch of new documents. Haven’t had a chance to browse through them yet, however I noticed the platform level and canopy designs are being modified, with updated plans to be released this month. Value engineering time? New...

I honestly prefer it to the uncovered windows, I think the view of the traffic from the unrenovated teamways looks so awful

I can’t remember where I got it or how accurate it is, but I heard the other Teamways (and all remaining platform entrances) will be renovated when the platforms are reconfigured. Would love to see the bay west Teamway integrated into the concourse better, there’s an incredible amount of dead...

Through the city archives I found this amazing photo from the late 20s, that shows what the train concourse looked like in the midst of the Great Depression, when maintenance couldn’t be carried out:

Customer platform* Glad metrolinx is blessing Grimsby station with such novel and bold ideas like this, truly a star in the industry

To celebrate we can all look back at the first post mentioning the jersey barriers! Posted 7,442 messages ago on April 25th, 2018

This is a couple years old so I’m sure the design has changed since, but their plans are to reinstate a track where the abandoned one currently is, and connect it to the existing tracks on both sides.

Miniso is expanding into the massive unit (94) adjacent to their current location (95 & 96) in the Market. They’ll be one of the largest retailers here when this happens

Loaded Pierogi in the food court shut down. Excited for something new

My god that map is so bad, I have a lot of negative opinions about the Union Station wayfinding but nothing makes me genuinely mad like the map does Sometime soon I’ll have to write down the mistakes in it, i noticed like 30 when I first saw it lol

From past experience hoarding is usually taken down a day or maybe 2 days before a space opens. Assuming it opens Monday, what is the bridge connecting to if the ground level lobby isn’t ready yet? As far as I know and going off the blueprints, there’s no walkway between the Union and...

There’s signage just out of view