Yeah OLT is just gonna approve basically any garbage pile of grey glass and spandrel that is proposed, given it's that close to a subway station. I have little hope we get anything good out of this, but I really would love to be wrong.

Yeah exactly, Phase 2 needs to redirect the same amount of weight into a notably smaller foundation, due to the rail corridor. Plus there's the whole thing where the tower itself is essentially cantilevered over said active rail corridor, which as someone who was originally a civil engineering...

It's just the Aura store. There's IKEA 2.0 signage all over the upper level. They're currently renovating that floor, section by section. So far it just seems like a better re-arrangement of the store layout but maybe there will be some kind of new smarthome section.

As long as we provide options for people without cars. Return centres need to be in walkable neighbourhoods, not just places people need to drive or take a bus to. A two-tier system is not the answer.

MX documentation has always clear that the line colour/number for the OL is essentially "to be confirmed" with the TTC, which is why it was close to the existing Line 3 branding, but slightly wrong. The TTC's future network map just has it using the existing Line 3 branding. It will almost...

I'm skeptical of blaming CF for this when the design is so very in-line with the bland suburban garbage MX has proposed for all the "SmartTrack" stations(and this was/maybe still is (idk) a SmartTrack station). CF has it's problems, but we can't just let Metrolinx off the hook here. Even if CF...

True, but Tim's is remarkably shitty about allergies regardless of who the franchisee is. And I doubt a franchisee has the option to be like "we don't want to sell peanut butter cookies to make our place more allergy-friendly" Fundamentally, these decisions come from the top in one way or...

Pretty much every recent station renovation has been designed to be adapted for level boarding. One of the few places where MX has actually been forward-thinking. The issue now is all the bilevel cars need to be refitted to have adjustable steps at the doors before they can convert any of the...

To be more serious, I'm deeply confused at the design philosophy of this station vs what has been submitted for Exhibition. It feels like Exhibition was done by the OL team within MX, and this has been done by the GO team. Like this is a generic GO station with an OL station strapped onto it...

While I'm not opposed to grass being there in the interim, I can't help but feel it would have been better to make it a set of bus lanes so that there would be actually decent transit to the area. Obviously we should have had the streetcar on QQE ready to be extended down here already, but since...

Amazing how something that was already pretty bad got worse in basically every way. More parking, uglier design, weird inset breaking up the streetwall, etc.

As someone born outside Toronto, I'd argue Yonge and Dundas is more famous than Yonge and Bloor. Within Ontario, CityTV is based there, and beyond that, Dundas Square, for better or worse, generates a lot of attention. Tbh beyond being a transit nerd, I didn't know about Yonge and Bloor that...

We should have told them this station would be in some obscure town in York Region, and be used by 5 people per day. We'd have be given the world's most beautiful transit station as a responce,.

Tims policy for years (since 2000ish) has been go here if you have food allergies. Like, any food allergies. To the point of putting up legal disclaimers in the stores. They have never made any effort to accommodate allergies, and never will. I haven't been to one since I was 10 or so as a...

Oh dear god this looks like absolute garbage so far. Who doesn't love a long blank concrete wall alongside a pedestrian underpass! Why not have glass there like they have planned at Queen St? But also sadly exactly the kind of suburban garbage we have come to expect from MX. They would think a...

The most recent plan had check-in and security at a "Passenger Processing Centre" next to the transit hub. Basically the model used in other airports such as Denver. I was at Denver airport a few weeks ago and I gotta say, their model works. I have never been through security so quickly. Then...

Yeah this "Union West/East/etc" thing needs to die. Many cities have multiple major stations. They name them different things. Makes life easier. Just call the one at Pearson either "Pearson" (for obvious reasons) or idk, Viscount (since IIRC it's supposed to replace where Viscount Station on...

It's Durham. Most of that space would inevitably be surface parking 🙃

Tbh, I don't think telling potential tourists they need to sit on a 20 minute subway ride to downtown Toronto after getting off the train would be a huge success at generating ridership. Plus building subway stations has gotten insanely expensive. So either we spend most of $1B on a new station...

I'd argue an even more Toronto option would be for it to become a bank branch, a la the Samsung Store becoming a BMO 😬