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I believe York Region is actually building a parking garage for parking at Vaughan Centre too.
Hey everyone, loooong time lurker on this forum, but I have some pictures I took over the weekend I'd like to share. Flying into YYZ on Monday, I flew just south of the new Highway 407 Station and managed to snap a few pictures before disappearing into the clouds again. Apologies for the potato quality.
These aerial photos show just how much land has to be redeveloped before VaughanMetropolitanCentre starts to resemble anything close to their ultimate vision. I know that @TJ O'Pootertoot is pretty optimistic about it, but this will take a very long time.
I believe York Region is actually building a parking garage for parking at Vaughan Centre too.
This is the Toronto suburban style subway stations. Just look at Wilson or Downsview station or even stations such as Bayview, Bessarion, Leslie, Don Mills. They are massive and waste a lot of space. These new stations will be empty. The only station that will good usage is York University and maybe Steeled West/Pioneer Village. The other 4 stations will be ghost towns. Wilson got a lot quieter when Downsview opened. Once this extension opens, Downsview will be a ghost town, since it will loose it's most heavy bus route the York Rocket. The new Downsview Park will be a dead station that will surpass the lows of Ellesmere and Bessarion. Maybe it will be as newsworthy as the UPX debacle.
The TTC should sell off the land and close down the huge park and ride and the parking lot it has there and put a neighbourhood there to boost ridership. At least there is land there for developments. The station at 407 is a collossal waste of money to save busses the 5 mins of going into/out of Steeles West station.
Too bad Vaughan does not have hurricanes to flatten the station and the subway extension after York^I am not a big fan of station overbuild anywhere, TBH....but building "grand" stations downtown would likely be prohibitive from a cost point of view...land is so much scarcer and, as a result, more expensive.
I guess, in the remoter areas there are two aspects to the "grandness"...stations need to be noticed for people to get/accept/realize (whichever word works) that transit is there...and, I guess, from a creature comfort point of view the need to make transit attractive and "nice" to use is higher.
Still don't like it, but it is no surprise to me that the "grandness" is more to the outskirts than DT.
Too bad Vaughan does not have hurricanes to flatten the station and the subway extension after York
Vaughan and it's sprawling build form is flat as a pancake to begin with. A hurricane would have almost nothing to flatten here.
I'm sure there would be - but does the parking lot at Yonge-Dundas mean that Dundas station has parking?Again, I'm fairly certian there is a garage getting built at Vaughan Centre ...
Again, I'm fairly certian there is a garage getting built at Vaughan Centre, and I think it might be getting done by the private sector. Its on the sidelot of the wal mart, you can sort of see it in the back of the building in this render:
http://i.imgur.com/6bmnwK6.jpg
[The parking garage is] on the sidelot of the wal mart, you can sort of see it in the back of the building in this render: http://i.imgur.com/6bmnwK6.jpg
That's the render for the new YMCA and public library. It's what people in the KPMG tower would see if they were looking out the north windows. On the right edge you see the regional bus terminal (to be built) and in between that terminal and the showcased building, there's a black blob which is actually part of the YMCA building itself; the building plans show half the building having five or six floors and the north half having just two floors. The huge translucent cube on the left edge is non-descript. Perhaps that's what you're referring to as the parking garage?