[Palma]

So much white, and glass...

And everything around the stations also that it did not put into context where the stations would be if you know the areas around the stations

 

[Johnny Au]

It would be good to have heated shelters. Having commuters huddled up together as an attempt to warm up a shelter is not a substitute.

 

[howl]

So if the future the frequency is increased to every 10 munites or 7.5 minutes, should the heater shelters be removed?

That wouldn't be very cost effective. If they broke down or needed to be replaced they might not be kept.

Decisons like this are largely economic. If heaters are expected to get enough bums-on-seats to make it a net profit they will be included in the design. If heaters are not expected to bring many additional customers in they won't be included.

 

[Adjei]

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LRT PUBLIC ART

http://stream1.newswire.ca/media/2015/11/06/20151106_C5460_PDF_EN_539275.pdf

There are more pictures of some of the stations in the pdf.

 

[mgl]

The Chicago El has heaters, or at least it did when I lived there up to 2002. It got bitterly cold on the raised platforms, even with shelter walls.

 

[Catenary]

The Chicago El has heaters, or at least it did when I lived there up to 2002. It got bitterly cold on the raised platforms, even with shelter walls.

Ottawa has button-activated heaters, but they're only useful at the fully enclosed waiting rooms. The one stop that has a heated shelter with no doors is useless.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS EGLINTON CROSSTOWN LRT PUBLIC ART

http://stream1.newswire.ca/media/2015/11/06/20151106_C5460_PDF_EN_539275.pdf

There are more pictures of some of the stations in the pdf.

These stations look really nice. The abundance of skylights was a brilliant idea. Hopefully they don't go cheap on the materials.

 

[nfitz]

Where was all the concern about heated platforms during the appropriate time - the EA and all the Transit PICs? If the community had pushed for this then, it would have been easy. Now it's nigh impossible the specs were written ages ago.

 

[Johnny Au]

Where was all the concern about heated platforms during the appropriate time - the EA and all the Transit PICs? If the community had pushed for this then, it would have been easy. Now it's nigh impossible the specs were written ages ago.

Looks like huddling up together would be the only way to have heated platforms.

 

[epcjay]

Ottawa has button-activated heaters, but they're only useful at the fully enclosed waiting rooms. The one stop that has a heated shelter with no doors is useless.

If I remember correctly, some go stations have heaters activated by a push of a button also.

 

[Megaton327]

If I remember correctly, some go stations have heaters activated by a push of a button also.

Many, if not most, of them do.

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

I wonder if having heated shelters outside on the platforms would cause problems with homeless poel trying to sleep in them?

 

[Tuscani01]

I wonder if having heated shelters outside on the platforms would cause problems with homeless poel trying to sleep in them?

Considering that they only stay on for a few minutes at a time, I think it would be difficult to sleep without freezing at some point.

 

[Adjei]

I wonder if having heated shelters outside on the platforms would cause problems with homeless poel trying to sleep in them?

Are homeless people sleeping in the shelters in York Region?

 

[innsertnamehere]

The full seal that the heated GO shelters provide are prime for teenagers looking for locations to hot box however, especially the more isolated ones. I remember walking into one of the shelters at Kennedy GO and it absolutely reeking of weed a few times.