Toronto1834
Active Member
They said the City supports a GO Station at Park Lawn to serve Humber Bay Shores, but GO is currently opposed.
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Filip
Senior Member
What is a transit hub without the GO? Rapid transit is the clunkering 501 these days? Keep driving people. Drive and drive and never take the ttc!
Well, it's the unimaginative, blinkered, didactically stingy planners at Metrolinx who are against it. GO has no opinions on their own, other than "free parking at a train station subsidized by the more environmentally conscious is every Canadian's right." Meanwhile, Metrolinx's planners should be barred from online banking, and be restricted to in person banking at the Park Lawn and Lake Shore BMO until such time as they are able to discern their responsibility to city-build when they make their plans. That's just me ranting for my own satisfaction, but they are so maddeningly clueless regarding the size of the development coming here that I'm drawn to make outrageous statements.
If it were without GO, the City would still tell you that having a new quicker LRT into Downtown from HBS would still make it a hub. Right now it's an hour by streetcar from Park Lawn and Lake Shore to the core, the Waterfront West LRT would chop that to around half that, about the same amount of time it takes GO riders to get from Union to Clarkson!
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Filip
Senior Member
30 mins to cross ~8km is ridiculous. Not rapid transit
Moot point for me anyway. I'm in the process of selling my place and moving to Europe. Guess I've finally had it with the city that barely works.
Moot point for me anyway. I'm in the process of selling my place and moving to Europe. Guess I've finally had it with the city that barely works.
67Cup
Active Member
The Mimico GO station is inadequate in its present condition even apart from the obvious need for a Park Lawn Station. It is reached by way of a narrow and obscure back street with a poorly marked turn, difficult to make from the north on Royal York Rd. Parking, which is a concern to GO, is cramped and the facility is run down. Of course a new station is needed
Amare
Senior Member
Proposed location of Kirby GO
Photo courtesy of the Star
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Approx. Proposed location of a Park Lawn GO Station
Even someone with little common sense could figure out which one would make more sense, let alone a group who is responsible for the planning and construction of transit in this province.
Photo courtesy of the Star
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Approx. Proposed location of a Park Lawn GO Station
Even someone with little common sense could figure out which one would make more sense, let alone a group who is responsible for the planning and construction of transit in this province.
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bilked
Senior Member
All aboard the Kirby Gravy Train!! (apologies for the fordism)
Keyz
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DopeyFish
Active Member
https://www.insidetoronto.com/news-...ommunity-on-mr-christie-s-lands-in-etobicoke/
An article that I saw in the Guardian today. First Capital is going to keep the water tower. They want a GO station. Seems like HBS people will be happy because they are going for the community amenities.
Not a lot of new information but it's something lol
An article that I saw in the Guardian today. First Capital is going to keep the water tower. They want a GO station. Seems like HBS people will be happy because they are going for the community amenities.
Not a lot of new information but it's something lol
christiesplits
Senior Member
Anyone else concerned about First Capital being the site developer given their track record in Liberty Village?
What's their track record in Liberty Village? They bought the plaza already built, and consider it to be something that can be replaced in the future with denser development, they've renovated an older warehouse to become a rather gorgeous EQ3 store, they've taken over Kings Club from Urbancorp and are adding the whole King High Line pedestrian and cycle connection to it…
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raptor
Senior Member
Is the King High Line pedestrian bridge an actual plan in the works or just a vision at this point?
Keyz
Active Member
innsertnamehere
Superstar
This is a bigger building than I remembered. not a small job to get rid of it.
