[canarob]

Is the food court going to flood every time we get heavy rains?

 

[DSCToronto]

Is the new food court going to include some sort of walkway to the entrance to the Scotiabank arena?

Yes, towards Union Plaza - where the current (up towards VIA level) ramp will become (down to food court etc) stairs.

 

[DSCToronto]

Is the food court going to flood every time we get heavy rains?

That is NOT the plan but ...

 

[DatTranzitGuy]

Yes, towards Union Plaza - where the current (up towards VIA level) ramp will become (down to food court etc) stairs.

When will the centre retail (the market) will open?

 

[Rascacielo]

The food court as of today

 

[DatTranzitGuy]

The food court as of today

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Nice pics I will be heading down to union station tomorrow maybe I will get some more pictures

 

[Richard White]

This gets me wondering what happened to @tnarduzzi .. he used to have some rather fascinating pictures.

 

[TransitBart]

That is NOT the plan but ...

Surely this was planned for...

 

[steveintoronto]

Surely this was planned for...

If it wasn't, they'd best institute some contingency measures before there's a disaster. I'd think insurance alone would demand that and more, like a secondary drainage system pumped from a dedicated and self contained fuel pump room above the water line, or sealed from it. Who would offer flood insurance to those concessions unless the City does so itself?

 

[mdrejhon]

I would imagine that mitigations have now been done -- installation of at least a couple of redundant flood pumps. To satisfy insurance. But they may be pumping into still-overflowable storm drains.

I'm pretty curious if flood pumping will keep up in the next ten years though. It's quite an important area to keep dry.

 

[steveintoronto]

^ There's very real irony in that the Esplanade hosted one of Toronto's first trunk sewers, albeit referred to as "drains" back in the day:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=Bu...e&q=toronto esplanade agreement sewer&f=false

And elsewhere in that book, under the "Tripartite Esplanade Agreement" the cost of maintaining that 'drain' was to be shared by the two major railways of the time: The GTR and CPR who are both covered legally in being bound to pay taxes and costs of the "Esplanade Viaduct" under which the sewer ran.

The book is a fascinating look at what the railways were legally liable for then, and my contention, still to this day.

 

[raptor]

And there it is

 

[DSCToronto]

Great to see this open, it is part of the pale green section below - with red arrow. They appear to be working on the part east of the opened section (below the Plaza) which will, eventually give a more direct TTC link.

 

[Leo_Chan]

And there it is
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That looks so spacious, but not as spacious as the Front East moat, due to the change in elevation and bridge, but it is still nice to see a path to the path from the path.

 

[Transportfan]

When the food court level opens, will the new subway connection open at the same time?