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

urbancog said:
My guess at the Union Station Rail Corridor redevelopment status:
  • Everyone has signed off on a target Trains Service Plan (TSP) - Metrolinx management, the Metrolinx Board, the Provincial Government, OnXpress management
  • A track layout similar to WillyBru21's posted maps has been agreed upon as capable of supporting the TSP
  • Metrolinx has signed the contract with OnXpress Operations and Maintenance co based on:
    • A comparable station layout being delivered
    • A staged migration to the TSP, over a number of years, as the USRC is redeveloped by the OnXpress Development team
    • Taking over operations and maintenance of GO Trains on 1-Jan-2025
  • The OnXpress development team has been doing site investigation (e.g. drilling cores through the slab below the tracks) to support preliminary design of the future station, and preparation of the Development Agreement, which has yet to be signed.
  • The final layout of Union Station will be dictated by the TSP and the site investigations, it will be included in the Development Agreement, and will include:
    • A slightly smaller number of, wider, platforms
    • Some bay tracks for trains that terminate at Union (e.g. 13W)
    • Some through tracks with cross-overs at mid-point to allow a train to stop at each end of the platform but have operational flexibility to depart by crossing to the other track if it's clear
  • Agreeing the final layout is a key decision that will allow the Metrolinx-OnXpress Development Agreement to be finalized and signed off.
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Which reminds me, If Onexpress maintenance has taken over operations, when is the full development agreement publicized. Id bet its fully complete, they just want to wait till after the new year to announce it. Maybe coming directly from onexpress and not metrolinx.

Would MX still do PR for go transit?
 
urbancog said:
My guess at the Union Station Rail Corridor redevelopment status:
  • The OnXpress development team has been doing site investigation (e.g. drilling cores through the slab below the tracks) to support preliminary design of the future station, and preparation of the Development Agreement, which has yet to be signed.
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Most of what you suspected seems right to me, except for this one.

The slab inspections have nothing to do with OnCorr.

generalcanada said:
Which reminds me, If Onexpress maintenance has taken over operations, when is the full development agreement publicized. Id bet its fully complete, they just want to wait till after the new year to announce it. Maybe coming directly from onexpress and not metrolinx.

Would MX still do PR for go transit?
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Metrolinx would still be the primary contact with the public, just like today.

Dan
 
I tried searching but all I found was some mention of Jersey Mike’s earlier in this thread so I’m not sure if anyone has actually posted this or not. If so, please carry on.

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The lack of even simple canopies along the south platform seems bizarre for a main station. It's a good job that Metrolinx wasn't running the revitalization of the main building, or they'd have ripped up all the floors, to replace them with poured concrete finishes.
 
nfitz said:
The lack of even simple canopies along the south platform seems bizarre for a main station. It's a good job that Metrolinx wasn't running the revitalization of the main building, or they'd have ripped up all the floors, to replace them with poured concrete finishes.
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For clarity, there is canopy over the south platform, it just doesn't extend to the platform edge.
 
Northern Light said:
For clarity, there is canopy over the south platform, it just doesn't extend to the platform edge.
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I'm not seeing it in this rendering. Unless there's a step you have to go over to get from under the canopy to the outside section of the platform.

Or are these like those tiny greenhouses they put on suburban GO platforms, that are far worse than just baking in the sunshine?
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nfitz said:
I'm not seeing it in this rendering. Unless there's a step you have to go over to get from under the canopy to the outside section of the platform.

Or are these like those tiny greenhouses they put on suburban GO platforms, that are far worse than just baking in the sunshine?
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The stairs are rising under the canopy. and there are pockets of space available that aren't stairs.

For clarity, I think this is inadequate and cheap.........I'm just stating that you don't have to be rained on while waiting...........but you will be subject to weather when boarding, which, in my judgement is stupid. I think that's the technical term anyway. LOL
 
nfitz said:
"pockets"

This is going to be fun when the platform is packed during heavy rain in rush-hour. How does Metrolinx manage to make everything so utterly expensive and cheap at the same time?
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I'm working on some answers to that question.
 
Platforms 26 & 27 have to accomodate freight trains that potentially have to divert through Union station. They can't construct anything over top these platforms that may obsruct double stack containers, or anything else the freight trains are carrying.

Similar situation as to why we don't have level boarding.

The freight companies are concerned that if a canopy is constructed right to the platform edge, they may accidently strike it.
 
Bojaxs said:
Similar situation as to why we don't have level boarding.

The freight companies are concerned that if a canopy is constructed right to the platform edge, they may accidently strike it.
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And yet they have bridges over the tracks. Just make the canopy as high as the bridge, and cover the entire track. Which seems to be the plan at Exhibition..
 
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