The track will be straightened when it’s finished

Yes the signage is supposed to be for when the UP Express has to use another platform at Union Station. Stairs and lifts are staged at various platforms for this reason, and at Malton GO as well: There are identical looking signs that say “UP Express is currently suspended”, those are the...

May as well post this too! Totally forgot to Browsing around I rediscovered blueprints for USEP that happen to show the additional legacy platform entrances planned at the time. I added these entrances in the bottom diagram. If the platform reconfiguration isn’t significantly changed before it...

That was the plan, alongside multiple openings in other areas, but heres what one of the documents has to say: Supposedly the plan going ahead is only maintaining the existing pre-USEP openings to the former south boarding areas. I have my doubts crowding will work as flawlessly as their...

If AI was used, just the tower itself was generated. The skyline is from an old render Also makes you wonder why if this render already exists, why edit or ai generate a new tower design

I got this advertisement on Instagram, did the design of the top change?

As with any canopy built in the past 15 years, they all have extra deep foundations/footings in preparation for raising the platforms.

Metrolinx just released new renderings of the USEP platforms: I’ll have to spend some time looking at these closer, but I think the two stub platforms added in 2022 when OnXpress was signed on were eliminated.

There’s one and it’s just a covered up staircase. I’ll grab a photo sometime over the next few days and show which entrance it’s connected to in the Bay Concourse

This is the only unused platform staircase at Union, and it actually connects to an entrance in the Bay Concourse. I don’t even think it’s pre renovation, it just never opened for some reason

Some of the combined platforms will have over 2x more entrances, the upcoming platform configuration really will revolutionise the station For example: Platform 8-9 in its current state has 8 staircases and 1 elevator. Platform 10-11 in its current state has 6 staircases and 2 elevators. When...

If all goes to plan, one day this area should have a elevated PATH junction to CIBC Square South/bus terminal, Union Station east platforms, Backstage/CIBC north, Pinnacle and the future eastern PATH districts, hopefully with a street level entrance.

Their updated official service targets are slightly more ambitious than what you’re predicting. 7.5 minute service will run all day on the UP Express, and during peak hours on LW, LE. 15 minute service will expand to: Burlington Bramalea Maple Unionville Oshawa 30 minute service will run to...

I personally don’t think the platforms look bad, a lot of major train stations have less grand, more utilitarian platforms outside the main canopy, and that’s what these new platforms are. All of the remaining Union platforms outside the main canopy will look similar to what’s being built in...

Added! You’re correct, it’s the only escalator involved in this project. Its purpose and placement is likely to help the uneven crowd distribution on the eastern platforms. This is the first entrance 20 coaches worth of people will have access to, and the distribution of riders on Lakeshore...