Contra
Senior Member
Does anyone have any pictures showing the intended move? Used to live here and very interested in seeing what this "shift" entails.
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Kitsune
Senior Member
And our last vitrolite station is slated to lose all its vitrolite tiles correct ?
DonValleyRainbow
Senior Member
Hey, as long as the south entrance from Yonge Street and the Quantam Towers is maintained.
Amare
Senior Member
This is sadly true.
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
All the while without any of the foresight to expand the platform widths...
It did not used to be this bad before, but in recent years if there are extended delays at morning rush hour, the Eglinton Station platform gets outright scary.
Amare
Senior Member
Expanding platform widths would require a closure of the Yonge subway for many months, and we all know the city would be virtually paralyzed if that happened. Just take a look at what happens when the Yonge subway is down for 10 mins, let alone months.
I dont think a Union Station style solution would be possible at Eglinton due to the constraints around the station, and the exorbitant costs of adding another platform.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
whatever
Senior Member
Did they consider just shifting one of the platforms north? As in, extend the existing platform 70m, and have the southbound trains stop at the northern end, and the northbound trains stop at the southern end? I can't see why it matters that the north- and southbound trains stop exactly opposite one another in the station.
They are shifting the platform north so that (approximately) half of it is north of the stairs down to the LRT, and half to the south. That way, those transferring are spread out far more evenly on the platforms. (Most of those currently bussing to Eglinton station will be arriving via the LRT in the future, so that accessibility will be crucial to making the station work efficiently.
I do wonder, however, if there will be enough space in the end, and whether they should instead have planned to also add a platform on the east side for northbound trains (as well as moving the station to the north). It wouldn't be cheap, but who knows how busy this will be…
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I do wonder, however, if there will be enough space in the end, and whether they should instead have planned to also add a platform on the east side for northbound trains (as well as moving the station to the north). It wouldn't be cheap, but who knows how busy this will be…
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AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
It can use the Spanish solution.
AoD
AoD
officedweller
Senior Member
The shift will help distribute passengers transferring from LRT to the Subway platform
- but won't the shift just create more of a crush from Subway to LRT since you'll have passengers coming from both sides?
(i.e. single ended access would be slower, more controlled access to the LRT platform)
- but won't the shift just create more of a crush from Subway to LRT since you'll have passengers coming from both sides?
(i.e. single ended access would be slower, more controlled access to the LRT platform)
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
No because there will be an intermediate level between subway and LRT platforms to distribute the loads:
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...m-1s-metrolinx-norr.26480/page-2#post-1203028
It can't plausibly be worse than an arrangement similar to the current Yonge-Bloor (with the exception that both are island platforms in the case of Yonge-Eglinton).
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W. K. Lis
Superstar
Not necessarily. The passengers from the west could transfer to the southbound trains at Cedarvale (Eglinton West) Station. They might get a better chance of a seat and skip the Forest Hill, Chaplin, and Avenue stations by doing so.
If there was a Relief Line transfer at Science Centre, it would benefit the passengers from the east.
