Toronto Ontario Line: Riverside-Leslieville Station | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | HDR

[interchange42]

Database file coming soon, but in the meantime, here are the first renderings:

Here's the neighbourhood context map:

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[greenleaf]

Looks great but why are there a number of parking spaces immediately next to the station?

 

[achender]

Looks great but why are there a number of parking spaces immediately next to the station?

There are parking spots there now. Not sure if they are trying to maintain that.

Google Streetview of the location.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

Those are for the staff and volunteers at Fontbonne Place at 791 Queen

 

[Red October]

Well this one will be convenient to go to Saulter Street Brewery.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

Totally cool and totally normal

 

[Undead]

 

[condovo]

Holy crap! The scale is...a lot. Poor Bonjour Brioche.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...actually, most of is getting buried. What are they on about?

 

[interchange42]

...actually, most of is getting buried. What are they on about?

They're on about the fact that it's not buried in their neighbourhood.

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[flonicky]

East side comparison.

 

[innsertnamehere]

good to see the clearing has already happened and the line is underway!

You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet am I right..

 

[Red October]

Yeah that kinda really sucks tbh, I get why they'd be upset.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

They're on about the fact that it's not buried in their neighbourhood.

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I mean were they expecting the original rail corridor there to be buried as well? It sorta was there first I gather. Maybe CN/CP should be the ones complaining about the burying the nieghbourhoods springing up around it all these years. But I digress...

Yeah that kinda really sucks tbh, I get why they'd be upset.

...I get that it's brutal. And personally, I never like seeing mature foliage cleared for anything.

That said, if this ends up being better for the environment as a whole in the end, some strategic surgery likely needs to take place. Besides, from the renderings...who says this isn't going to be made to look least green and presentable when all said and done? I think @innsertnamehere indicated as much above.

 

[condovo]

Is there no room to plant new trees once the station's in place?