Toronto CIBC SQUARE | 241.39m | 50s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre

[ChesterCopperpot]

Not sure how dated they are but from the project site

 

[raptor]

First floor plate

 

[Big Daddy]

Given the obvious desire to extend Bay street south of the tracks, I'm surprised more wasn't done with the pedestrian tunnel under the tracks.

 

[interchange42]

Given the obvious desire to extend Bay street south of the tracks, I'm surprised more wasn't done with the pedestrian tunnel under the tracks.

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The Bay East Teamway you mean? It's getting fixed up.

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[raptor]

Given the obvious desire to extend Bay street south of the tracks, I'm surprised more wasn't done with the pedestrian tunnel under the tracks.

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What's there to be done? The Bay St East teamway is in a good shape. Its southern half is currently used by EllisDon.

 

[Big Daddy]

I wasn't aware it was in decent shape. What's a "teamway"? I've never heard it referred to that way.

 

[raptor]

I wasn't aware it was in decent shape. What's a "teamway"? I've never heard it referred to that way.

From the CIBC Square website:

 

[W. K. Lis]

I wasn't aware it was in decent shape. What's a "teamway"? I've never heard it referred to that way.

From link:

...you are walking through the Teamway, now a pedestrian passageway running along the west side of the York Street "subway" or tunnel and underneath the railway viaduct. In earlier days, goods arriving by train at Union Station were unloaded and transferred to the Canadian National Express Building, a depot for transshipment, located above and beside where you are now standing. Here, horse-drawn wagons picked up the items from teamways or loading bays for delivery.

Related to teamsters, drivers of a team of horses, now truck drivers.

 

[DSC]

I wasn't aware it was in decent shape. What's a "teamway"? I've never heard it referred to that way.

Teamway. Where the teams of horses went when picking up/delivering good to the railway. See: http://torontoplaques.com/Pages/Teamway.html

 

[kotsy]

The Bay St East teamway is in a good shape.

Since when? It looks like a WWII bunker.

 

[raptor]

Since when? It looks like a WWII bunker.

Do you perhaps think of the West teamway?
Regardless, as noted in the rendering above, the East teamway will be getting an facelift.

 

[kotsy]

Do you perhaps think of the West teamway?
Regardless, as noted in the rendering above, the East teamway will be getting an facelift.

Is there an East & West for Bay Street or is the East one Bay Street and West is York Street?

 

[raptor]

Is there an East & West for Bay Street or is the East one Bay Street and West is York Street?

There are 4 in total Bay East, Bay West, York East and York West.

 

[Amare]

From the CIBC Square website:

Too bad all of the flooding this area experiences on a yearly basis will never make the teamway look as good as this.

 

[mk39920]

From the CIBC Square website:

Something about the choice of stock people in this picture rubs me the wrong way.....