junctionist
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It seems ludicrously bad from a business standpoint to oppose a direct connection.
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It seems ludicrously bad from a business standpoint to oppose a direct connection.
robmausser
Senior Member
Most likely owned by idiots who only drive and think transit is for beggars and poor people, whom they don't want in their mall.
Just like the same idiots that oppose bike lanes for street parking.
facepalming_brooklynite
Active Member
If there was a Darwin award for bad business decisions, they would be a strong contender
Towered
Superstar
Which is funny, because it's not like that "mall" is exactly doing great. If anything, it looks to me like it's in the worst shape it's ever been in terms of vacancies...
reaperexpress
Senior Member
Most of the people crossing midblock (there's no such thing as jaywalking in Ontario) are connecting between the subway/streetcar and GO stations. The project is already providing a direct underground connection from the subway platform to the GO station so it will already eliminate most of the midblock crossings regardless of connecting to the mall.
milkycontent
Active Member
Another reason an entrance in Crossways would be great would be to divert some of the foot traffic from the current entrance that involves crossing the streetcar entrance and squeezing onto the narrow sidewalk on Dundas. This intersection is so crowded with students from the high school other pedestrians, not to mention all the cars trucks and transit vehicles, avoiding the bottleneck would make it that much more comfortable and less hostile. Huge miss by the myopic rent collectors at Crossways "mall."
reaperexpress
Senior Member
But if people are walking east on Bloor they can still avoid that crossing by using the new connection to the GO station. If they're going south on Dundas an entrance in Crossways wouldn't help them anyway.
SubHuman
Active Member
This is getting off topic, but I knew someone who lived there from the late 1980s to the mid '90s, when the apartment building started to increasingly have a roach problem. One of the main things that has to be done to control their spread is to seal all the gaps around water pipes where they routinely enter and exit the apartments.
https://www.toronto.ca/community-pe...resources/preparation-food-service-processes/
According to the guy I knew who lived there, supposedly the owner was being duped by disingenuous exterminators, whose intention was to keep regularly returning and get paid to spray as much possible, instead of actually eliminating the problem. They insisted that every few months they needed to do "inspections" of all the apartments, which would include them looking under the kitchen and bathroom sinks with screwdrivers to poke holes through the sealant where anyone had done this, to re-open the gaps for the roaches. And apparently they eventually even got the owner to put up a notice telling the residents to stop doing any such sealing, with some ridiculous b.s. reason that it somehow made the roach problem worse.
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rdaner
Senior Member
I got some very poor images of the new lighting features on the platform on the south side of Bloor. Taken 19 August.
rdaner
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pesto
New Member
Got these from GO Expansion X account:
unicornsample
New Member
Link to the Metrolinx update from September 12, 2024 - Kitchener Fourth Track and Bloor Station (TTC Connection) [PDF]
Includes lots of photos and a project timeline update.
Also-- apologies if these have already been posted, but went looking for a schematic of the tunnel/concourse design and couldn't find one here. Stumbled across the attached so posting now:
Includes lots of photos and a project timeline update.
Also-- apologies if these have already been posted, but went looking for a schematic of the tunnel/concourse design and couldn't find one here. Stumbled across the attached so posting now:
SubHuman
Active Member
I had always thought there would somehow be a way to go into the entrance under the bridge and then just go down one or two flights of stairs to the subway platform. I guess they couldn't do that, and everyone will have to go all the way up and along the UPX and GO platforms, then back down stairs again.... The even crazier routing is being in the UP express building at Bloor and asking how to get to the streetcar platformUp to the tracks, down the ramp to the GO platform, down the stairs to the tunnel, backtrack to the subway entrance, down the stairs the subway platform, walk to the other end of the platform, go up two flights of stairs and you are there. Oops, you forgot your sunglasses at the UP express station.
I'm guessing that entrance likely won't have a sign displaying TTC access, just GO and UPX like it is now. The entrance from the FreshCo parking lot would likely be the only one indicating access to all three.
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felix123
Active Member
So they won't have escalators?
Pretty sure the biggest use-case is people headed to/from the airport, usually with rolling luggage (and either way, that's my main use case for UPX so it's the most important one).
TTC/GO Elevators are the worst because the doors close so slowly that someone is always there to reopen the doors just before they shut, causing you to miss your train. Then there's the side-eye you get from the stroller people. Guess I'll just keep lugging my suitcase up the stairs.
Pretty sure the biggest use-case is people headed to/from the airport, usually with rolling luggage (and either way, that's my main use case for UPX so it's the most important one).
TTC/GO Elevators are the worst because the doors close so slowly that someone is always there to reopen the doors just before they shut, causing you to miss your train. Then there's the side-eye you get from the stroller people. Guess I'll just keep lugging my suitcase up the stairs.
nfitz
Superstar
Seems rather absurd - but that's Metrostinx for you.
Though I'd have thought the biggest usage would be people entering the subway from the east, rather than walking all the way to Dundas.