drum118
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Built the new west end first for GO and retail and then close off the east end and rebuild.
The same would happen for VIA.
The same would happen for VIA.
One item that was left out, and I was hoping for, is moving the Coach Canada terminal, which is up on Bay St. near Dundas. I have relations in a small city that isn't serviced by GO so I have to make my way up to the Coach Canada terminal and catch my commuter bus to visit them.
One other reason to have the Coach Canada terminal at Union Station is that the different commuter buses would have easier access to our highway system from Union Station as opposed to Bay/Dundas area.
I'm guessing that by that you mean that VIA would spend a few years using the York Concourse once it's ready so that the Bay and VIA concourses could be done at the same time?Built the new west end first for GO and retail and then close off the east end and rebuild.
The same would happen for VIA.
As far as I know there are two possible plans for the Coach Terminal (or three if it stays where it is.)
1. Move it to the GO bus terminal east of Union Station by building another deck there and extending the GO Bus station right up to the back of the Dominion Building. This appears to be the current favourite as it consolidates transit quite conveniently to Union Station and adding a deck to the GO bus station would also make connections to Union Station easier.
2. Move it to the area around 90 Harbour Street (York/Harbour); this building (former Workers Compensation Board HQ) belongs to the Province and Metrolinx (under their earlier name) asked the Province not to sell the building until they decide what to do. The drawback of this site is that it is really not very convenient to Union Station and certainly not to the subway. City report on this building at http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/2006/agendas/committees/te/te060613/it021.pdf
My vote is #1 but I don't think any final decision has been made and it seems to have dropped off Metrolinx Board agendas.
I definitely agree about the coach buses using Union as well. It makes sense to have all the connections available from that one point. Same goes for the DRL.
Where would the DRL connect at Union go? Something tells me it would be painful to build it under or beside the current TTC platforms, and there's no mention about a "possible" DRL in the Union Station renovation plans.
Where would the DRL connect at Union go? Something tells me it would be painful to build it under or beside the current TTC platforms, and there's no mention about a "possible" DRL in the Union Station renovation plans.
It hasn't been decided yet. You are right though there really isn't a good place to put the tracks (ideally you'd want to at least connect to Union subway station.). Which is why Wellington has been proposed as the routing through the core.
This a point that just doesn't seem to sink into people's heads. There is no space left in the Union station vicinity for a DRL station, barring some truly fantastic engineering works.
This a point that just doesn't seem to sink into people's heads. There is no space left in the Union station vicinity for a DRL station, barring some truly fantastic engineering works.
Subways are built by boring a tunnel. They bored a tunnel right through downtown to hold hydro wires. There is always space to put in a tunnel. I don't see why it would be at all difficult to put in a subway station right below the current one. Regardless of where they put the DRL I would assume that the plan would be to go deep to avoid needing to move utilities and shore up foundations except for stations.