Dundas West/ Bloor Mobility Hub +interconnected hub network (Metrolinx)

[reaperexpress]

For the moment, the minimum requirement for accessibility is just one entrance per station. In practice, planners also make additional entrances accessible if they serve a major passenger flow. Hence why the Dundas West second exit (to the GO station) will be wheelchair-accessible even though the main entrance (to the streetcar terminal) is already accessible.

There is a strong movement among accessibility advocates to require all entrances at new stations to be accesssible. The argument is that it's discriminatory to provide a shorter route for able-bodied people than the step-free route. If that policy were to be enacted, the consequence would be that the second exits at new stations become emergency exits only. For example, if Avenue station had been built with that requirement, the only difference would be that they omit the faregates at the second entrance and forbid people from using it outside of emergencies.

 

[Allandale25]

View SE from Wallace Avenue footbridge with progress installing 4th track for the Weston sub. No track NW of the bridge yet, to tie in with that previously laid.

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@crs1026 @smallspy out of curiosity, will this signal bridge be extended to cover the new 4th track?

 

[crs1026]

@crs1026 @smallspy out of curiosity, will this signal bridge be extended to cover the new 4th track?

I don't know for sure however I suspect not, as all the wiring and the bungalow would have to be shifted also.

Years back, I was led to believe that the signal for the fourth track will be freestanding and ground mounted.

- Paul

 

[lowtrain]

For the moment, the minimum requirement for accessibility is just one entrance per station. In practice, planners also make additional entrances accessible if they serve a major passenger flow. Hence why the Dundas West second exit (to the GO station) will be wheelchair-accessible even though the main entrance (to the streetcar terminal) is already accessible.

There is a strong movement among accessibility advocates to require all entrances at new stations to be accesssible. The argument is that it's discriminatory to provide a shorter route for able-bodied people than the step-free route. If that policy were to be enacted, the consequence would be that the second exits at new stations become emergency exits only. For example, if Avenue station had been built with that requirement, the only difference would be that they omit the faregates at the second entrance and forbid people from using it outside of emergencies.

This is so sad