drum118
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June 16
More up on site
More up on site
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Jasonzed
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Neutrino
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Is that the parking garage? That's massive. Looks like six floors. How many spaces are they adding? (cue that one guy who always bitches about GO's parking garages).
drum118
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When I shot the station a week ago, they already had the plus 35 walkway bridge on site and neither the platform or the parking structure ready for it. Very little done for the new platform.
If you look close to the left, you can see the stairwell tower and that how far the structure is going. At the base, you can see the plus 35 bridge going east-west beside it.
You can see Metrolinx has this structure setback about 100' from the corridor and no sign yet of a crash wall.
Another example of miss opportunity of not having development on top of parking and better use of land.
Still working on Sept 28 shots, with 1,500+ more before I get to the the shots of Oct 13 for the station
Oct 13
If you look close to the left, you can see the stairwell tower and that how far the structure is going. At the base, you can see the plus 35 bridge going east-west beside it.
You can see Metrolinx has this structure setback about 100' from the corridor and no sign yet of a crash wall.
Another example of miss opportunity of not having development on top of parking and better use of land.
Still working on Sept 28 shots, with 1,500+ more before I get to the the shots of Oct 13 for the station
Oct 13
SaugeenJunction
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The one silver lining of this is hopefully they can turn the parking lots on Hurontario into some nice transit-oriented development for the Hurontario LRT.
innsertnamehere
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it still amazes me the amount of these large parking structures Metrolinx is putting up on the Milton line with no real plan to introduce new service on the line at all in the next 10 years.
rbt
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IIRC they have an internal team who does nothing but parking; a repetative straight forward structure is a good task for junior legal/engineering/project management, etc.
With RER making potentially major changes to most other lines, the parking team really only had Milton left to work on so they did.
That said, it takes 2000 parking spots to fill a train so they're only adding a couple of runs worth of parking spots.
drum118
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Cooksville passengers:
This past weekend, a new pedestrian bridge was lifted by crane and installed at Cooksville GO. The pre-built bridge weighs about 110 metric tonnes and connects the new parking structure to the rail platform, providing easier and better access to the station.
The installation was quite a process and took around four hours to complete. We're going to post photos and videos on twitter, so follow us at @gotransitMI to see how it went. It's really cool!
This past weekend, a new pedestrian bridge was lifted by crane and installed at Cooksville GO. The pre-built bridge weighs about 110 metric tonnes and connects the new parking structure to the rail platform, providing easier and better access to the station.
The installation was quite a process and took around four hours to complete. We're going to post photos and videos on twitter, so follow us at @gotransitMI to see how it went. It's really cool!
TOareaFan
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While we are waiting for the professional quality pics/videos you have gotten us used to......this twitter user posted one (presumably a phone camera) shot this morning.
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drum118
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November 06
I hope they do the same thing for elevators like they did for Erindale Station that saw 3 elevators to/from the platform. More shots up on site.
Not sure what going on with this hole and if a tower base being setup for the new station itself.
I hope they do the same thing for elevators like they did for Erindale Station that saw 3 elevators to/from the platform. More shots up on site.
Not sure what going on with this hole and if a tower base being setup for the new station itself.
So the people living around the area now get to stare forever at that eyesore, all thanks to a transit agency which is blindly bent on perpetuating and strengthening car culture.
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drum118
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It fits into the thinking of GO and Metrolinx since the early 1980's, that only car people use the GO station and local Transit System can't provide good quality bus service to them.
Since Metrolinx and the RR are moving to have no residential building within 100' of the rail corridor, parking structures can use that space. Not sure if there a plan to have a 2' X 20' crash wall along the property line.
The current parking creates a gridlock in the parking lot that moves to Hillcrest and then to Hurontario gridlock when an westbound train arrives. There will be a 2nd entrance/exit at John St once the work is done, but still create a gridlock on Hurontario and other streets.
If all that parking structure was underground, think how much more development could be built upon it and improve the area.
innsertnamehere
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You need 36m to create a dual row parking garage at minimum (4x 6m depth parking spaces, 2x 6m wide drive aisles). The minimum setback is 30m. Plus you need crash walls, landscape setbacks, seperation between the garage and adjacent development, etc.
These take up much more space than the 30m.
These take up much more space than the 30m.
drum118
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Look how much empty (wasted) space between the Parking structure and CP ROW corridor. Unless there is going to be a new south platform along with the crash wall, a real wasted of good development land. Even if a south platform beside is built along with the crash wall, still wasted land for that empty space.