[WB62]

They were already bare bones. So I choose optimism and that they may be getting some design flare suitable of our country's main train station.


Hey, it could happen.

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 USEP when they’re upgraded.

International examples:



Our issue in Toronto isn’t the outer platforms looking simple, it’s that the grand main canopy doesn’t look very grand.

Why I brought up value engineering as a concern is because I think there’s a chance Metrolinx cuts back the canopy coverage along the USEP platforms, the current plans have canopies covering around 90% of the platforms. New projects like Bloor-Lansdowne, or Caledonia, have little to no canopy coverage.

 

[nightstreak]

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 USEP when they’re upgraded.

International examples:

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Our issue in Toronto isn’t the outer platforms looking simple, it’s that the grand main canopy doesn’t look very grand.

Why I brought up value engineering as a concern is because I think there’s a chance Metrolinx cuts back the canopy coverage along the USEP platforms, the current plans have canopies covering around 90% of the platforms. New projects like Bloor-Lansdowne, or Caledonia, have little to no canopy coverage.

My hope is that this new corridor could (in the future) become the place for a feature canopy. Any canopy isn't visible from Front Street where the beaux-arts building is the feature. So any canopy would be visible from Union Plaza on the south side.

Imagine something like this from Calatrava as the south entrance at Union Plaza and over the platforms above the entrance.

Not now but perhaps in the future when MLSE wants to redevelop the office component of Scotiabank Arena and shares air rights with the rail corridor in exchange for an integrated canopy and redesigned south entrance into Union Station.

 

[nightstreak]

The removable bollards are being installed.