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  1. Willybru21

    Toronto Toronto | Union Station Revitalization | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | NORR

    Yeah this is if the streetcar loop is expanded, there is going to potentially be 2 more entrances on top of these, one into the bay street retail level (which will be protected for but not built initially) and a potential connection into the dominion building: The second set of photos is from...
  2. Willybru21

    Toronto Toronto | Union Station Revitalization | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | NORR

    As promised here are before and after photos of the pieces of concept art for the new subway station entrances:
  3. Willybru21

    Ontario Northland/Northern Ontario Transportation

    I can’t remember if/when it’s been discussed in this thread, but has any information been released on how they’ll be handling boarding at Union? Will ON be using the VIA facilities or the GO facilities in the station?
  4. Willybru21

    Toronto Toronto | Union Station Revitalization | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | NORR

    The concourse is going to be connected pretty decently between the other areas of the station, definitely better than some of the PATH connections. Here is what the existing hallway behind the Bay Concourse will look like when Bremner opens, it’s going to be opened up and integrated fully into...
  5. Willybru21

    Toronto Toronto | Union Station Revitalization | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | NORR

    Map 4 (second one I’ve done) is complete. This map shows: CIBC Square complex ground level Station Bus Terminal lower level & the two Yonge Street entrances that will be closest to the bridge in the future, one through the Backstage Condo building and another through a future entrance on the...
  6. Willybru21

    VIA Rail

    Actual heated switches were installed at Toronto Union Station. To my understanding Chicago has a similar winter to us, I wonder why they haven’t installed heated switches on their network yet.
  7. Willybru21

    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    Eglinton GO, Eglinton Line 1, Eglinton West Line 1 (soon to be renamed to Cedarvale), and Eglinton Line 10 on Hurontario.
  8. Willybru21

    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    The largest offender in this region is Eglinton, Eglinton, Eglinton, and Eglinton West, good thing they’re renaming one of them!
  9. Willybru21

    Toronto Toronto | Union Station Revitalization | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | NORR

    I'm excited to see the changes in the Bay Concourse, it’s gotten to the point where almost none of the linear lights are working:
  10. Willybru21

    GO Transit Fleet Equipment and other

    Deliveries were supposed to begin in 2023, nowhere in that article did it say all 94 coaches were going to be delivered back to GO in 2023, that’s impossible to do. There has clearly been some delays; but this isn’t anything important like the opening of a new station or line, this is out of...
  11. Willybru21

    GO Transit Fleet Equipment and other

    Alstom has been rebuilding all 74 Series 7 coaches for the past 3 years: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1001250/building-ontario-with-investments-in-go-transit-bi-level-rail-coaches#:~:text=THUNDER%20BAY%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Ontario%20government,economic%20growth%20in%20Northwestern%20Ontario.
  12. Willybru21

    GO Transit Fleet Equipment and other

    Taken earlier this week, there’s no rush to bring them back, there are plenty of spares available right now.
  13. Willybru21

    Toronto Toronto | CIBC SQUARE | 241.39m | 50s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre

    There is that proposal for a bridge over the rail corridor, and a link from the south tower off of level 2: This map is quite old but it gets the point across. This connection is already built up until where the bridge begins, the corridor is hidden behind a knockout wall to the right of the...
  14. Willybru21

    GO Transit Fleet Equipment and other

    251-257 are in service right now but are unrefurbished. 200-214 are refurbished but current service levels don't require them for the time being (which has made some people here very angry for some reason). 242-250 are currently under refurbishment, when these return there will be a total of...
  15. Willybru21

    Toronto Toronto | Union Station Revitalization | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | NORR

    Took a wander around the outer edges of the station yesterday and noticed a few things. Did the bike station on Front and York always jut out from the main building? I don’t remember it being this large: There’s some scaffolding and stuff all along the west wing, I wonder if they’re cleaning...
  16. Willybru21

    Toronto Toronto | CIBC SQUARE | 241.39m | 50s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre

    Thank you! I forgot to ask this originally but is there any indication that an entrance for a future Yonge Street bridge to the east platforms at Union was roughed into the north tower? This bridge is seen in Union Station Enhancement Project documents and also a OnCorr 3d model of Union. I...
  17. Willybru21

    Toronto Toronto | CIBC SQUARE | 241.39m | 50s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre

    Hi all, some of you that also post in the Union Station thread already know but I’m currently doing a personal project mapping out all of the Union Station Complex area; all current and future areas of the station: I’m sure it’s already well understood here that both CIBC towers will be...
  18. Willybru21

    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    Slowly but steadily Mount Dennis is getting ready to open; 2 weeks ago train information displays were put up and turned on, earlier this week car markers were added too.
  19. Willybru21

    Toronto Toronto | Union Station Revitalization | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | NORR

    I can back that up, I encountered no problems on the GO side of Union. I’m sure there was something Metrolinx could have done to limit the amount of people going towards the subway station from Bay Concourse, but to my understanding crowd control outside of the concourses should have been...

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