Towered
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I'm curious as to what the ridership numbers are for this station considering it's in the middle of a light industrial wasteland. The location never made sense to me.
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I'm curious as to what the ridership numbers are for this station considering it's in the middle of a light industrial wasteland. The location never made sense to me.
ShonTron
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"Middle of a light industrial wasteland" can describe many GO stations, not just Etobicoke North. Bronte, Appleby, Oshawa, Bramalea, Meadowvale, Ajax...
It's because the MTO owned (and still owns) some land in the area when the station opened in the mid 1970s. That, plus the hydro corridor passing overhead made getting the land for parking easy. It was a cheap station to build, and it attracted just enough commuters to make sense.
It's because the MTO owned (and still owns) some land in the area when the station opened in the mid 1970s. That, plus the hydro corridor passing overhead made getting the land for parking easy. It was a cheap station to build, and it attracted just enough commuters to make sense.
allengeorge
Senior Member
I used that station a lot back in the day. I’d drop off my family at work and then take the train downtown. There was also a powerlifting gym not too far from there.
crs1026
Superstar
Nice big parking lot(s) that were usually full. Bit of a walk to bus connections.
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smallspy
Senior Member
I haven't gotten a reason as to why as yet, but there will be a new bridge installed later this fall.
For the interim, they have moved the signals to the backs of the masts located immediately to the south of it.
Dan
robmausser
Senior Member
Its also close to the 401, its a good station to park at and take the train the rest of the way downtown to avoid traffic if you are driving along the 401.
StealthyArrow
Active Member
Construction at Milliken Go Station is progressing, with majority of the work focused on utility/watermain work underneath the future roadway. Progress is also being made on covering and reinforcing the pedestrian tunnels under the tracks, so that they can start building up the second platform, which has already started in some areas. The first piece of black cladding had went up, and the work between Redlea Ave and Kennedy Road is progressing well with new curbs, new medians, new bikelanes, and new asphalt already in place, almost ready to move onto the north side of Steeles Ave.
cplchanb
Senior Member
Are these platforms built with future raising to level boarding height in mind?
ARG1
Senior Member
ARG1
Senior Member
Its quite unclear unfortunately. There was a document that showed how raising the platforms will work, however there really isn't much evidence from what I can see that any of these Stouffville Line stations are built to spec.
Coolstar
Senior Member
Apparently, all new GO stations will be built with level boarding in mind and an IBC is being prepared currently. Dated August of 2020. Page 32. https://www.metrolinxengage.com/sites/default/files/appendix_m5_-_pic_2_summary_report_part_8.pdf
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Garuda
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I wonder if this is level boarding at the NA industry standard (32 inches?) or GOs own level standard. I hope it’s the former so VIA can easier use these stations.
EnviroTO
Senior Member
All the documentation says their standard is currently 5 inches and they are moving to 24 inches. If they were going to move towards a standard you would expect they should aim for 550mm or 21.6" (most common European standard) or 1250mm or 49.2" (a high-floor platform standard that would accomodate the 50-51" train floor heights common in North America and the 1250mm floor heights found in many HSR trains).
Interesting that in China they have the platform standard heights of 200mm (ultra low), 380mm (low), 550mm (medium), 760mm (high), and 1250mm (ultra high) nicely aligned to the most common global standards, but we are using 5in (127mm) and thinking of going to 24in (610mm) and VIA has 3 stations at 48in (1219mm). Oh well, at least our track gauge for new things is 1435mm (standard).
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ARG1
Senior Member
It will likely be low floor level boarding, so not in line with Via
generalcanada
Senior Member
although interesting this isnt anything new, in fact i think this is copy paste from 3 years ago in 2018
the technical report can be found here from 2018 on pg 8http://www.metrolinx.com/en/regionalplanning/newstations/2018-04-13%20Stations%20Technical%20BackgrounderFINAL.pdf
compared to the coment response last fall
That said, not building stations in progress with level boarding sucks. they might be talking about new stations that have planning started in the future