[EnviroTO]

New Keelesdale image shows view customers will have when exiting Crosstown station​

A single escalator? Hopefully the other entrances have escalators that go the other direction. Some of these stations are deep.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

A single escalator? Hopefully the other entrances have escalators that go the other direction. Some of these stations are deep.

Likely minimum TWO escalators (one in each direction), but only one elevator. I'll be very surprised if they put in four escalators and two elevators. When they are making the original subway stations "accessible", that means only ONE elevator. Not so "accessible" if the elevator is "out-of-service" for maintenance.

 

[beatle04]

Noticed the bicycle stairway runnels. They're the grooved guide next to a stairway so people can go up and down without having to lift and carry their bikes. You just guide your bike wheels into the groove and push it up or squeezed the brakes and walk it down.

Doesn't look like there is enough room between the guide and the glass without the pedals hitting the glass. Also the handrails seem to be directly above the groove which seems to make trying to roll the bike up way too much of a hassle.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Doesn't look like there is enough room between the guide and the glass without the pedals hitting the glass. Also the handrails seem to be directly above the groove which seems to make trying to roll the bike up way too much of a hassle.

Likely designed by a non-cyclist (as usual).

Use the runnel at an angle...

 

[nfitz]

I'll be very surprised if they put in four escalators and two elevators.

For longer escalators (and that one looks relatively long), the standard these days is 3 ... one down and two up - which gives them the ability to almost always have two running, if one goes down.

When they are making the original subway stations "accessible", that means only ONE elevator.

They plan to start adding second elevators in Easier Access Phase 4.

 

[Amare]

Wonder if the bicycle stairway runnels would be installed in the old subway stations, when they rebuild the stairwells. Likely not in the budget, as always.

You're asking for things that will never happen.

 

[superelevation]

Looks rapid

Here's the central median of Cedarvale station taken on August 23, 2021:

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Looks like this will be done soon :/

New Keelesdale image shows view customers will have when exiting Crosstown station​

From link.

Noticed the bicycle stairway runnels. They're the grooved guide next to a stairway so people can go up and down without having to lift and carry their bikes. You just guide your bike wheels into the groove and push it up or squeezed the brakes and walk it down.

What about the wheelchair users, when the elevator (singular) are out-of-service?

Would be surprised, other projects that have already opened feature redundant elevators

 

[christiesplits]

New Keelesdale image shows view customers will have when exiting Crosstown station​

From link.

Quite the contrast to the opulence of the Sheppard and TYSSE stations!

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

Quite the contrast to the opulence of the Sheppard and TYSSE stations!

I wonder how many people will actually look up and notice any of these stairways having natural light in them.

 

[Steve X]

I wonder how many people will actually look up and notice any of these stairways having natural light in them.

Ummm if you don't look up and see who's coming your way, there's a problem! Of course we know people are glue to the floor.

I gotta say this is one thing ML got right. They planned for natural light and ensure the entrances don't have any blind spots for bad guys to hide from.

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

Ummm if you don't look up and see who's coming your way, there's a problem! Of course we know people are glue to the floor.

I was thinking of people on their phones.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Quite the contrast to the opulence of the Sheppard and TYSSE stations!

Honestly I’d really appreciate just some of that TYSSE “opulence” on the Crosstown (and even more on the Ontario Line). These Crosstown stations are as utilitarian as it gets

TYSSE-style stations would be incredible on the OL from a design standpoint.

 

[kamira51]

Honestly I’d really appreciate just some of that TYSSE “opulence” on the Crosstown (and even more on the Ontario Line). These Crosstown stations are as utilitarian as it gets

TYSSE-style stations would be incredible on the OL from a design standpoint.

Without the water stains?

 

[ARG1]

Honestly I’d really appreciate just some of that TYSSE “opulence” on the Crosstown (and even more on the Ontario Line). These Crosstown stations are as utilitarian as it gets

TYSSE-style stations would be incredible on the OL from a design standpoint.

Maybe Spadina Line stations like St. Clair West and not TYSSE - those platforms on TYSSE are beyond awful.

 

[EnviroTO]

Without the water stains?

Yes, the exposed concrete only looks decent when it is is clean and has some treatment applied to it. Otherwise they should be hanging panels over the whole wall to hide it. The unfinished concrete on Sheppard Line and TYSSE looks dirty and unkempt pretty quickly.