Dan416
Senior Member
1200 spaces eh? How many is the new Erindale parking structure going to have?
1200 spaces eh? How many is the new Erindale parking structure going to have?
Speaking of the downtown Kitchener garage, it's a blight on the landscape imo. The brick facade "fits in" with the overall downtown facade fabric, but it's dead in terms of pedestrian activity (go figure). The Oakville garage looks massive! I find it ridiculous that Metrolinx is building this monster garage instead of working more closely with Oakville Transit, the town of Oakville.. ect inorder to find ways of diversifying the mode share. Pushing for better transit service from the outlying suburbs to the station, and improving the cycling infrastructure around the station are options that should've been prioritized.
I agree that we need better cycling and transit links to all the stations, but the approvals process for building anything means that they worked closely with the Town of Oakville for many years on this project. It's easy to blame Metrolinx, but Oakville controls everything else around the station. If bus and cycling links are lacking then one needs to look towards Town Hall.
1200 spaces eh? How many is the new Erindale parking structure going to have?
True regarding the translation. Even the English doesn't fit what most people would call it. Why isn't it the Oakville Parking Garage?
I just got off the phone with a friend who is on his way right now to go to Guelph to see his family for the holidays. When he got to the GO station at Union, as usual, to get his ticket to Guelph the ticket agent asked him if he wanted to take the train or the bus???!!!
We knew that the expansion was happening, but, neither of us knew it was up and running yet! He gratefully got the train ticket ($14 one-way) and told me that they have 4 trains going to Kitchener and Guelph now (two in morning and two in afternoon). Taking the train is quite a bit quicker for him now as well- it is going to shave almost an hour and a half off his commute. He used to have to transfer GO buses at Square One to get the bus that would take him to Guelph.
GO is pretty low-key about all the expansion and project they are investing here- very grateful for this new service though- they should promote themselves a bit more because GO is getting better and better since I have moved here to Ontario almost ten years now!
Maybe it's just me but it seems like it's taken awhile for them to install the second track on the bridge over the Credit River now that it's finished. This will certainly relieve a bottleneck on the system. Did they build the bridge to accommodate three tracks or just two?