junctionist
Senior Member
Asphalt would be significant cheapening--it was supposed to be an interlocking pavement. The asphalt might be temporary though.
Considering that there is not even a route planned for any potential additional subterranean tracks - nevermind engineering drawings - how would they be expected to build a space below the Retail Concourse for it?
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
So that brings me back to my initial question to AlvinofDiaspar regarding his point about the project being band aid in nature. What is missing from the current project that could have, should have been included in the plan when it was made way back when.
Don't get me wrong - I am glad we went through with this project (however late and however unresponsive to long-term plans). The problem are many-fold and I place it squarely on the state of dysfunctional transit planning in Toronto and the region. You really aren't in much of a position to include anything in the plans when you don't even know what they are in the first place - and given tight budgets and the extra cost it will likely entail, no one would sink money in that.
AoD
Late into this discussion but isn't waiting for perfection just a recipe for doing nothing? We should never let the striving for perfection get in the way of pretty good.
Late into this discussion but isn't waiting for perfection just a recipe for doing nothing? We should never let the striving for perfection get in the way of pretty good.
Late into this discussion but isn't waiting for perfection just a recipe for doing nothing? We should never let the striving for perfection get in the way of pretty good.
Late into this discussion but isn't waiting for perfection just a recipe for doing nothing? We should never let the striving for perfection get in the way of pretty good.
Of course, the old adage of not letting the perfect to be the enemy of the good - that said, that can be way too easy an out for fundamental issues with transit planning in the GTA.
AoD
I'm curious how they will keep that glass clean considering you've got thousands of dirty diesel trains passing thorugh and idling underneath it.