UtakataNoAnnex
Superstar
^I guess they're not keeping us in suspension any longer...
DSCToronto
Superstar
Don't forget they asked for bids on the lighting about 5 or 6 years ago but then cancelled the bids. I am hopeful they will not do this this time but, like opera, 'it's not over until the fat lady sings'
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
I wouldn't count on anything with respect to the city (and especially at Union Station) - not even after they have put up the chandeliers.
AoD
DSCToronto
Superstar
I went there this morning to look at the area and the bollards are not really to stop vehicles entering that area they are to stop vehicles demolishing the wall and/or parking on the large cover of a pit of some kind. Whether any vehicles should be allowed there at all is an open question but vehicles CAN get there and I guess signage of some sort is thus required.
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Toronto1834
Active Member
Where does that glass structure lead to?
In other news, bollards are completed in front of the taxi stand on Front Street, jersey barriers still in place for the time being.
CanadianJedi1983
New Member
it's a stairway down the glass canopy not sure to what
DSCToronto
Superstar
Emergency exit from the streetcar loop, I think.
Richard White
Senior Member
Sauga89
Active Member
Metrolinx has posted another update on the south expansion work. Here are some of the photos from the update:
DSCToronto
Superstar
nightstreak
Active Member
*white smoke*
We have bollards! Habemos Bollards!
A couple of observations: if they could do bollards in this central section where the road above the subway station is the most shallow, then why install shin breaking concrete blocks everywhere else?
Like the concrete blocks, the bollards are far too closely spaced. Is there a 70cm wide car they’re worried about? All of the “anti-terror” infrastructure here seems not to be aimed at a functional and safe pedestrian plaza, but instead designed to pad contractor budgets.
We have bollards! Habemos Bollards!
A couple of observations: if they could do bollards in this central section where the road above the subway station is the most shallow, then why install shin breaking concrete blocks everywhere else?
Like the concrete blocks, the bollards are far too closely spaced. Is there a 70cm wide car they’re worried about? All of the “anti-terror” infrastructure here seems not to be aimed at a functional and safe pedestrian plaza, but instead designed to pad contractor budgets.
ShonTron
Moderator
I’d have to go take a look myself, but these bollards do seem to be much better than the concrete blocks. As for their close spacing, they seem to be similar to those placed around sensitive government buildings in the US like courthouses and federal offices. So not ideal from a pedestrian perspective but certainly not unprecedented.
nightstreak
Active Member
I ended up spotting finished bollards on the west side of the plaza. They’re functional, certainly not pretty.
They’re less obtrusive than the concrete blocks though the spacing just barely lets through someone wheeling a suitcase next to them.
I’m just relieved that this 8 year national nightmare is almost over. Ok, I’m exaggerating but this took way too much of our lives going around ugly jersey barriers for what could’ve been a straightforward solution.
TossYourJacket
Senior Member
To be fair, is it that hard to wheel the suitcase behind you? Honestly it's more polite to do that around Union given the amount of people moving around.
That said, these bollards are pretty meh, we could have done much better.