smably
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And before this iteration, the designs go all the way back to 1987: https://stevemunro.ca/2009/12/31/history-of-the-dundas-west-go-connection/
Even that blog post is 11+ years old now.
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Dundas West/ Bloor Mobility Hub +interconnected hub network (Metrolinx)
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Even that blog post is 11+ years old now.
Northern Light
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Pre-History!
Steve Munro had a full head of hair; UT didn't yet exist; 4 years before the web was even a nascent thing outside the military/research community............
I was just entering my teens!
aquateam
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You joke but the city created "Dunbloor" street where Bloor and Dundas intersect at 6-Points, so "Bloordas" is the logical name for where they intersect here.
I like "Roncesvalles" if the street name is extended north from where it ends. That or we could name the station "Crossways."
M II A II R II K
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Or Bloor Dundas Square after that brown building across the street.
smallspy
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You can go back even further than that for plans.
When GO inaugurated their service to Georgetown in Spring 1974, not only did they earmark the station at Bloor as having a "future connection" to the subway, but they even expected it to be built before the end of the decade. Seems that they missed that mark by a tad...
Dan
Towered
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Toronto transit planning incompetence is a historic tradition!
W. K. Lis
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The Crossways high-rises was completed in 1974, the same year that GO Transit started to Georgetown with a Bloor GO Station. Line 2 (Bloor-Danforth Subway) opened in 1966, so they didn't know of any plans for a GO Train around Dundas West Subway Station. The closest train station was at West Toronto CP station at Dundas West and Dupont, which closed October 28, 1978, demolished November 25, 1982.
See link.
Allandale25
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Allandale25
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Amare
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Is it confirmed that the tunnel will not connect to The Crossways?
I ask because i'd like them to be punished to the fullest extent and reap absolutely no benefits from this for delaying this project for ~30 years.
I ask because i'd like them to be punished to the fullest extent and reap absolutely no benefits from this for delaying this project for ~30 years.
smably
Senior Member
I know you're kidding, but the sad thing is that the lack of this connection just hurts the residents of the Crossways, who've spent 30+ years having to cross the car sewer that is Dundas West to get on the subway.
W. K. Lis
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They have been "designing" the connection for +30 years. They only get started designing next year?
nfitz
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The original design (almost 50 years ago) and roughed-in connection, had stairs, not elevators. So that doesn't work.
Northern Light
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For the record, there is a conceptual design already done, I'm not sure to what level, but I'd guess at 30%, that's enough to know exactly what they needed in the easement they moved to expropriate.
What is still required is detailed design to produce tender-ready documents, and then construction drawings.
crs1026
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In some ways I’m glad that it waasn’t designed and built back before RER came along. Had it been designed back when GO was a peak only service, it might have proved a bit too rudimentary for the hub that is being built today.
Should have been ready for the GTS/UP completion in 2015, however.
- Paul
Should have been ready for the GTS/UP completion in 2015, however.
- Paul