Toronto Union Station Revitalization | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | NORR

[DonValleyRainbow]

If it were up to me, we'd get a flipboard for the train destinations. They are one of the great casualties of the digital age in my estimation.

The flipboard is probably the sweetest feature in The Local Pub in Liberty Village, I had never seen one in real life before going there. I'm pretty floored they didn't keep them around, but gotta pinch those taxpayer pennies...

 

[mdrejhon]

If it were up to me, we'd get a flipboard for the train destinations. They are one of the great casualties of the digital age in my estimation.

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I'll settle for a "Retina Jumbotrom" (tiny pixels) video screen simulating a flipboard. Displaying full color, high-def photorealistic animations of the train desinations flipping as the screen updates the destinations. Deal?

 

[adHominem]

Let's just go full Steampunk and make a board made of hundreds of Nixie tubes.

 

[interchange42]

Let's just go full Steampunk and make a board made of hundreds of Nixie tubes.

That would be gorgeous too, but I love the sound of the flipping characters (and whole train names on wider flaps). The boards are actually called Solari boards. Here are a couple of examples…

This one at Paris Gare du Nord is a classic:

Here's one in New Haven CT from 2011:

This malfunctioning one at Frankfurt Airport has some hilarious mistakes in it:

And here's a brilliant new (but maybe overdone) digital fake, including sound:

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[Transportfan]

More work progress shots from Monday:

Moat level under the canopy:

Action at the retail concourse, with ongoing work visible behind the hoarding in the bottom pic:

 

[Richard White]

More work progress shots from Monday:

Moat level under the canopy:

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Action at the retail concourse, with ongoing work visible behind the hoarding in the bottom pic:

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Any idea when the lower York concourse will be open to the public?

 

[mdrejhon]

Was there ever a flipboard at Toronto Union in the past?

Any idea when the lower York concourse will be open to the public?

It is already open to the public. Look closely at the creatures in the photo.

 

[Richard White]

Was there a flipboard at Toronto

It is already open to the public. Look closely at the creatures in the photo.

I don't see any rats?

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

I don't see any rats?

Pigeons?

AoD

 

[Richard White]

I don't see any rats?

AHHHH.. I was looking at the pictures of the interior concourse. Thanks Alvin.

 

[SaugeenJunction]

Not sure if this has been posted but these hoarding wraps have gone up in the York Concourse. I’m glad people will have an idea of what to look forward to.

 

[W. K. Lis]

Wonder if some of the food samples could end up in some time-capsule?

 

[Student99]

Not sure if this has been posted but these hoarding wraps have gone up in the York Concourse. I’m glad people will have an idea of what to look forward to.

Very little to look forward to, IMO.

Pizza pizza? blegh
Can't we get a pizza place more original than that? Why can't that tiny place that moved out by the leather bypass come back

 

[DSC]

Very little to look forward to, IMO.


Can't we get a pizza place more original than that? Why can't that tiny place that moved out by the leather bypass come back

presumably the new rent is too high...... but it is a pity the choice looks so "pedestrian"

 

[TransitBart]

The rents have gone so far in so many places in the city that a business plan showing a profit probably can’t be made.