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jaybe said:
Anyone else see this image in the Sept 26 release on the Crosstown LRT and Kennedy Station? This will be an intermodal station between the LRT, Subway, GO RER, buses and whatever replaces the existing SRT. That sea of parking spaces is disheartening.

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I was just in the area the other day with someone who commented that it was as if we were in another country. We are typically from the west end of Toronto although I grew up in this area. These parking lots are the reason I moved away. Apparently Scarborough wants to put all its development around STC no matter how much transit is in other areas.
 
jaybe said:
Anyone else see this image in the Sept 26 release on the Crosstown LRT and Kennedy Station? This will be an intermodal station between the LRT, Subway, GO RER, buses and whatever replaces the existing SRT. That sea of parking spaces is disheartening.

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Did you expect there to be a parking structure instead? I don’t find parking lots to be that disheartening, as they can be develop at a later date.
 
Leo_Chan said:
Did you expect there to be a parking structure instead? I don’t find parking lots to be that disheartening, as they can be develop at a later date.
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whats disheartening is that these lots have not been developed during the last 10 years which is arguably Torontos biggest building boom. If no one wants to build here during a boom what will happen if housing demands decrease.
 
sixrings said:
whats disheartening is that these lots have not been developed during the last 10 years which is arguably Torontos biggest building boom. If no one wants to build here during a boom what will happen if housing demands decrease.
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We all know Scarborough has been neglected by developers (lowest land value, etc.). Hopefully with the new transit lines there will be some new investment. These parking lots could become condos.
 
jaybe said:
Anyone else see this image in the Sept 26 release on the Crosstown LRT and Kennedy Station? This will be an intermodal station between the LRT, Subway, GO RER, buses and whatever replaces the existing SRT. That sea of parking spaces is disheartening.

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What are they showing here?
Before the subway is built and SRT is still in service?
 
jaybe said:
Anyone else see this image in the Sept 26 release on the Crosstown LRT and Kennedy Station? This will be an intermodal station between the LRT, Subway, GO RER, buses and whatever replaces the existing SRT. That sea of parking spaces is disheartening.

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I cannot even spot a difference between this render and today
 
EastYorkTTCFan said:
and extra parking where the old Canda Post building was. What did people expect bike parking?
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I expected bicycle stations, high density condos, high density office buildings, wide sidewalks (oh the horror!), street front stores, separated bicycle lanes, and reserved bus right-of-ways. And, oh yes, pay for parking in the suburbs.
 
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TheTigerMaster said:
Any plan to densify the plan would be nice. I can't believe this pedestrian hostile design is what we're building.
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It's all probably out of scope. The parking lot lands are owned by the City of Toronto. I would love to see the Eglinton-Kennedy area urbanized, but I suspect that when it is, it will look a lot like the area around Kipling Station. Lots of condo towers, but a poor interface with the transit links and a less than ideal pedestrian realm.
 
I couldnt agree more with ShonTron, Kipling was done wrong outright right from the start. An intermodal hub could have been constructed right where all the condos are currently located for a seamless connection between the GO, TTC, and MiWay; but instead of that we're getting some half baked solution.

Kennedy has the potential to be done right but knowing all of the political games we see happen in the city and province, it's unlikely we'll see that.
 
ShonTron said:
It's all probably out of scope. The parking lot lands are owned by the City of Toronto. I would love to see the Eglinton-Kennedy area urbanized, but I suspect that when it is, it will look a lot like the area around Kipling Station. Lots of condo towers, but a poor interface with the transit links and a less than ideal pedestrian realm.
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Yes. If we do urbanize the areas around Kennedy Station, it'll cost a lot of money to remove the pedestrian-hostile elements. Obviously the Eglinton Avenue bridge would be a significant barrier.

I figure that we'd either have to lower the GO RER corridor, such that Eglinton Avenue can cross the rails without an elevation change (thus making the bridge easier for pedestrians to access), or we might have to build a berm up to the level of the bridge, so that it's accessible to pedestrians without a large detour. It would also be nice to see an entrance to the station on the north side of Eglinton Avenue, perhaps near the No Frills. Without that new entrance, people walking to the station from that plaza (which I presume could eventually be redeveloped) have to deal with a 250 metre detour to get into Kennedy Station.

The two service roads adjacent to Eglinton Avenue, which TTC buses use to access the station, would also have to be either moved underground, or removed entirely (buses could still access the station from Transway Crescent).

Expensive, yes. But it's well worth the cost to develop a critical transit node. I bet it would cost less than the Six Points interchange reconfiguration
 
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