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It's a pretty station and all, but more ammunition for Tim Hudak to use in October.
He's probably going to target the suburbs for votes, so he may not want to criticize their subway extension. Good design makes for great cities; there's no need to legitimize that as an avenue of criticism, especially given the extremely low standards of the past in buildings stations.
Is it necessary to have that lame-duck canada flag in the rendering? I get the feeling that its international firms poking fun at us...which is not unprovoked.
Otherwise, the station looks pretty amazing - would it not have made a bit more sense to extend the subway more and potentially have more barren stations.
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I'm not saying that I don't love massively overbuilt subway lines in low density residential and industrial areas while local bus services are being cut and the city is facing a 700 million dollar shortfall for 2012. What I am saying is that with a provincial deficit of 15 billion or so, the Tories will be poaching McGuinty white elephants in the coming campaign, and this is one of them.