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

[daptive]

Time for someone to dig up the old old old concept renders of the underground platforms at Union. I’d try to do it myself, but UT’s search and image browsing is abysmal.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Time for someone to dig up the old old old concept renders of the underground platforms at Union. I’d try to do it myself, but UT’s search and image browsing is abysmal.

Union Station & Rail Corridor Capacity

At the recent Metrolinx Board meeting, staff presented an overview of planning now underway for the future of Union Station. One background report addressed the future levels of GO, VIA and other …

stevemunro.ca

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[ComptoirGeneral]

Union Station & Rail Corridor Capacity

At the recent Metrolinx Board meeting, staff presented an overview of planning now underway for the future of Union Station. One background report addressed the future levels of GO, VIA and other …

stevemunro.ca

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"Combined with a $1.3-billion price estimate, this option faces severe, (dare I say) uphill battles for acceptance."

So only ~$2B to dig a new platform underneath Union? Honestly not bad if we're already spending 40x that on the whole project

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

"Combined with a $1.3-billion price estimate, this option faces severe, (dare I say) uphill battles for acceptance."

So only ~$2B to dig a new platform underneath Union? Honestly not bad if we're already spending 40x that on the whole project

The problem isn't this notion of digging underneath Union - the problem is how to do it in a way that would interface properly with the rest of the station and not preclude future (re)developments. We need some big picture/vision of the entire corridor and then stick to it instead of engaging in one-offs (which got us into the pickle that we are in right now)

See, if we had made up our minds that we need to plan for HSR, and that we will put the concourse underground we could have integrated the construction with the USEP works (to say nothing for the even earlier overall redevelopment project). We didn't.

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[WB62]

Time for someone to dig up the old old old concept renders of the underground platforms at Union. I’d try to do it myself, but UT’s search and image browsing is abysmal.

 

[rdaner]

While your at it can we get the renders of the arena above Union floated before Scotiabank was built?

 

[WB62]

Oh god that idea, thank goodness this didn’t happen:

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Oh god that idea, thank goodness this didn’t happen:

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That was a bullet dodged - our version of Madison Square Gardens.

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