Yea it's not on wynford^ it's on the north side of Eglinton so people getting off at the front of a train will have a decent trek to get to line 5 but as long as they have some escalators running all the way to line 5 platform level it shouldn't be too bad. Can't be worse than Kennedy anyways lol
Sheppard-Yonge is a terminal station with only one side platform in use. So it's not unprecedented. But as others have said, most likely they'll have a northbound and southbound platform and use the tail tracks to change which tracks the train is on. Montreal does this with at least some of their terminal stations (Cote-Verdu for example). Also you can set all the escalators from the disembarking platform to go downstairs, and the ones on the embarking platform to go upstairs, which helps indicate which direction people should go (also signage can indicate that people shouldn't go up the stairs to the disembarking platform)
I can't see it being much different from the current TTC Subway.
Unlike the TTC, train announcements on the MARTA announces nearby destinations, as well as general messages in both English and Spanish.
I meant on the Ontario Line. I don't really see a reason why the Ontario Line would have different announcements from the TTC, or at the very least the Eglinton Line.
The provincial owned lines are required to be bilingual. TTC is just contracted to operate them. I would be more surprised if we don't hear any French on the Crosstown LRVs.
Verbose announcements are great if it means there are many transfer options. If only Toronto had announcements like this one:
Vancouver also does this, as do some other places where high frequencies are operated, this way you don't block outbound trains with trains pulling into the terminal half the time. Allows for higher frequencies.
Lol. Because it iswhy does this feel like another Metrolinx PR piece rather than actual news?
That's for sure. It's not as though they release any actual information. We still haven't seen anything like preliminary designs for stations. They must surely exist, but they don't want anyone to see them until it's too late to change things people don't like.
This actually looks really nice though. This gives this nice urban feel that urbanists constantly try to push to create without creating transit service that is absolutely terrible. I'd want to go to a park that had this at the far end, this looks nice and walkable. Meanwhile Paula's render was "Here are some 18th century industrial design where everything looks like Ellesmere Station".
When Paula Fletcher released a rendering of what she thought the noise wall and environs would look like, she was justifiably accused or presenting an extremely biased take.
With this rendering it seems like she wasn't completely off.
You're still going to have a large visible wall, and this is a Metrolinx rendering so you know it's a best case scenario.
Like everything else, it seems the truth will lie somewhere in the middle.
Given how things go in this city I'd have to seriously question the kind of landscaping, especially with comments like this:
"Wherever possible, noise walls will be surrounded by trees, plants and attractive landscaping to enhance the appearance of the space for the community. This approach will soften the appearance of noise walls that will shield the area from the new Ontario Line as well as existing GO and VIA services."
It seems as though this will be more intrusive than Metrolinx originally suggested.