[GeneralGrievance]

Today's front-page story highlights the public art RFQ.

 

[Palma]

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

I must be missing something. How can heated platforms outside provide heat that will do much good or not waste money providing heat to heat outside platforms

 

[Megaton327]

I must be missing something. How can heated platforms outside provide heat that will do much good or not waste money providing heat to heat outside platforms

The heated shelters are generally sealed, with doors. They do not heat the whole platform, you walk inside, the door closes behind you, and if the temperature is under a certain threshold, you can press the button inside to activate the heater for a few minutes.

 

[nfitz]

The heated shelters are generally sealed, with doors. They do not heat the whole platform, you walk inside, the door closes behind you, and if the temperature is under a certain threshold, you can press the button inside to activate the heater for a few minutes.

Not sure what this has to do with the Eglinton Line. The drawings since day one have always shown a single glass panel with no sidewalls, let alone doors!

If people wanted that, they should have said so years ago, to allow for the platforms to be wide enough.

 

[Tuscani01]

Not in the case of GO Transit's shelters at Square One GO. They are completely open to the elements.

 

[dowlingm]

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.

Smoke alarm?

 

[nfitz]

Smoke alarm?

Sprinkler!

 

[44 North]

lol, that's what's referred to as a Jamaican hot box.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

This is how you get people to support heated shelters

 

[CapitalSeven]

I'm not sure how this idea got so fascinating. 1) The platforms aren't wide enough. 2) With five-minute service, average waits are going to be less than three minutes. 3) Conversely some are calling for the elimination of half of the stops, lengthening the walk for many riders by several minutes, in any weather.

 

[Johnny Au]

If the heated platforms are walled in with doors, then it would get very humid in there, with so much condensation forming on the outside of the walls.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Maybe heating the platforms up to +4°C (when needed) would be enough to melt the snow or ice, would be enough to have a "warm" feeling to our feet. It's our feet that needs the heating, and heat flows up, better than having heating pads overhead. They do with with driveways (especially condo and apartment driveways), how about giving transit users their turn?

 

[robmausser]

Maybe heating the platforms up to +4°C (when needed) would be enough to melt the snow or ice, would be enough to have a "warm" feeling to our feet. It's our feet that needs the heating, and heat flows up, better than having heating pads overhead. They do with with driveways (especially condo and apartment driveways), how about giving transit users their turn?

They already do it on certain GO train platforms

 

[hawc]

Sorry, are transit users now complaining about not having heated floors at OUTDOOR bus stops???

 

[crs1026]

Sorry, are transit users now complaining about not having heated floors at OUTDOOR bus stops???

They may not be complaining, but presumably there's a reduction in the use of sand and salt - and that means longer life expectancy for the platforms and hopefully vehicle interiors too. So money well spent.

- Paul