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Good. Stop the Garage Mahals. The stations on Crosstown and Sheppard should be a blueprint for how stations are built moving forward. Not the political empire building like on the Spadina subway extension or Bloomington station.
I'm surprised when people say this; it's like they haven't really seen a lot of transit stations. You're thinking that the choice is between huge, low-quality, garage mahals VS small, boring, and decent transit stations. It definitely would be a waste of money to create huge stations when they aren't needed but the issue here is that the building doesn't evoke any expression, have any interesting colours or materials, creates large blank walls, and overall doesn't provide any aesthetic value... which I believe is important for public buildings.
Exactly. Make me look forward to going to the station every morning. I understand that there are many more important ways to boost transit ridership, but customer experience is important and stretches beyond quiet zones and wi-fi... as important as those are. Metrolinx's projects are a mixed bag and many are the bare minimum in terms of aesthetics. Attention to detail is also not seen when you look at their choice of materials, customer amenities, public realm design, and station canopies... although I am mostly impressed with their new wayfinding standard. It disappoints me when Metrolinx does lazy designs, because I see transit projects as an opportunity to improve the built environment. When you build a train station, it can be more than just that, and it should be attractive both on the inside and the outside. I'm not angry; they're not terrible stations but they are lazy and boring. They're non-places.
The stations should get their own Buildings Forum threads, but you might as well keep the initial notice here, and once the docs are online, start the new thread and edit the link to the new thread into your posts here.
Isn't funding for this station supposed to come from the city?
As industry moves out, yes.
