hw621
Senior Member
took them long enough...
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GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)
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Neutrino
Senior Member
Are they moving the parking as well and what's the plan for the TTC parking? Also a good opportunity to sell the air rights and redevelop that entire block.
Streety McCarface
Senior Member
Welp, there goes half of Leslie's ridership. I'm also surprised people even park there when the GO parking lot is less than 400 meters away and is free.
But in all seriousness, this should have happened when they modified Oriole station last year. The fact that they're only doing this now (as well as the GO platform height increases at Union) is something I will never understand about Metrolinx planning.
hw621
Senior Member
or lack/absence of planning
nfitz
Superstar
Do they need to move the parking? A 12-car GO train is 310 metres long (not including the engine). People who use the parking can use the south end of the train, and those using the subway can use the north end.
It's not a particularly big lot either, only reaching about 120 metres perpendicular to the tracks. There's longer walks already at existing GO stations - it's 275 metres from the worst spot at the Langstaff GO south parking lot to the platform. I'm sure there are longer examples too just from the parking spot to the platform!
(at Langstaff GO, it's also bizarrely 205 metres from the platform to the closest GO Bus ... making the walk from the worst spot in the south parking lot to a GO Bus about a half-mile! The existing walk from the Oriole GO platform to Leslie station is only 450 metres and they could knock this to 350 metres by just running a pathway along the tracks with a pedestrian bridge where this extended GO platform must cross Esther Shiner Blvd).
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Maple GO has some (albeit temporary) parking that is nearly 900m from the very closest part of the platform.
raptor
Senior Member
Procurement process on all new GO stations has stopped:
https://yorkpublishing.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=1632
https://yorkpublishing.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=1632
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So much for whatever's left of SmrtTrack!
raptor
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Note that the letter is dated Nov 29, 2018. Metrolinx didn't have the nerve to provide this update in their December board meeting. Perhaps they forgot.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Amazed the media hasn't picked up on this. Smart-track being "cancelled" by the province would grab quite the headline.
AlvinofDiaspar
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"Exponentially grow transit ridership" - do they even understand the implication of exponential growth? 
AoD
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raptor
Senior Member
betcha either Oliver Moore or Ben Spurr are preparing a SCOOP for Friday afternoon
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
Notice of Proposed Procurement out for Weston Station improvements. Any insight on what these could be? Extra platform? VIA had previously wanted to stop here so people could transfer to the UP Express, but I doubt this is that.
PT-2018-CINF-595:Weston Station Improvements
PT-2018-CINF-595:Weston Station Improvements
drum118
Superstar
They need the extra platform once the new track 1 is installed. This will allow northbound trains to use track 1 and southbound track 2. UPX would continue to use track 3 & 4.
Based on all meetings for the station and the corridors over the last decade, the platform is to be a centre one to allow an 1A on the east side that would connect to CP track for the line to Bolton. Don't know if that still the case or not. If not, it would be a side one.
Track 1 is installed north/west of the station to south/east of hwy 401.
It would allow VIA to stop there if they want to.
TOareaFan
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lol"Exponentially grow transit ridership" - do they even understand the implication of exponential growth?
AoD
Had a brief twitter convo today about how often the term "exponential growth" is misused.