I was on Steve Munro's website and he gave me a written description of what they had planned for Warden Station. Unfortunately the funding wasn't secured and the funding plans were pulled recently, according to stevemunro.ca. Anyways I told him that I live between Warden and Vic. Park Station but use Warden more often then VP Station. When he wrote the funding was pulled I asked him what the plans were. They sound great, but, he only gave me a written description of them- I was wondering if anyone had artists renderings of these plans. I remember when I first moved to Toronto, from Vancouver, they had VP Station Modernization plans online and now it is a real thrill for this transit fan to watch these plans become reality. I always hoped that Warden Station would get the treament that VP Sta. is getting and losing those seperated bus bays. Steve Munro said that it will be an island type of platform that all the different routes will share.
Glad that a lot of the stations are losing the design of seperated bus bays, because sometimes I have a stroller and it is a pain to go up and down stairs with my son, especially when I am transferring from bus to bus. Also, this comes from Vancouver, I always preferred the design of having centre platforms on the Skytrain Station that had them, and I like the fact that Kennedy and Warden have centre platforms. In a way I think this design saves money because the trains share the same elevator (something Warden needs) and stairs and escalators. I am originally from Montreal and centre platforms are unheard of their, but they designed Lionel-Groulx well.
This is something that Toronto does really well compared to the other cities I have lived in and that is the design of the subway station, not all of them of course, but I was really amazed at how the buses enter the station itself at a lot of the stations I go to. I lived most of my life in Vancouver and Metrotown Station is sort of like this but we commuter aren't sheltered as well as we are at a lot of our stations here in TO. I have two young children, one still in a stroller, and this design of the stations is really appreciated on colder days. VP Station will soon be one of the more comfortable stations to transfer at it. I just hope that their is a change of mind with the powers that be and Warden Station gets its funding lined up again, and this time secured.