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rdaner
Senior Member
Taken 25 April. The first images are of the new pavilion on the east side. The last is of Perth running north of Bloor because it is where many riders of the UPX catch their Übers so is becoming busy. Also when the tunnel opens a lot of people will be using Perth to go east and I expect the built-form along here to respond to the horror of NIMBYs! 
Lyphe
Active Member
Wow ... this is great. My wife and I decided to get off UP at this station to try out and said 'ugh never again', worth the extra train ride to Union instead. We were blown away that no connection existed between UP and TTC without a trek down the street. Of course, it was windy, cold, and we weren't dressed properly, so it made an oversize impression on us. Anyone know the expected timeline for the 'connection' portion?
Mrgeosim
New Member
Summer 26' is when the connection is "scheduled" to be complete. I don't know why it can't be done sooner and at the same time am skeptical that they'll actually finish by then. Metrolinx isn't even finished with the Davenport Diamond, which should have been completed 2 years ago... I have to be careful about my complaints about Metrolinx though. If I continue to write, I will open up this thread to the wrath of the people on the Crosstown Eglinton thread, who have far more bones to pick.
drum118
Superstar
You went the wrong way to Dundas West Station by the photos and why your poor experience. In place of going east out of the station, you should had used the south entrance where UPX stops to get to Bloor and walked west to Dundas. If you are going to the downtown area, better stay on the UPX.
When the new connection to the subway is open, a lot better connection to TTC. If. When ML builds that walkway to Dundas, it will be a better connection to Dundas West Station to catch the streetcars or buses.
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urbancog
Active Member
New Short video from Metrolinx including details inside the Bloor-Dundas connection:
Dan416
Senior Member
This is one of the few TTC-named stations I'd support renaming. I understand why it's called Dundas West, but an East-West street name on an East-West subway line doesn't make a whole lot of sense, even though it's accurate. And the GO station name does make some sense, but it's pretty vague considering that there already is a Bloor subway station at Yonge. Just rename the whole TTC/GO complex to Roncesvalles. There's plenty of stations not quite on their namesake street.
evandyk
Senior Member
When I just moved to Toronto I confidently sent some poor tourist asking for directions to Dundas West station when he wanted to get to the AGO.
SubHuman
Active Member
It's good to see that work has been done, but that pile of dirt where one of the elevators will be doesn't make me feel confident that this will be finished any time soon.
The number of people using this GO/UPX station hugely increased in just the last few years. When I would occasionally use it pre-2020, I was often the only person on the platform and I never saw more than maybe three others.
The number of people using this GO/UPX station hugely increased in just the last few years. When I would occasionally use it pre-2020, I was often the only person on the platform and I never saw more than maybe three others.
As I've said here before, I wouldn't mind if the stations and the nearby north-south portion of Dundas St W were all renamed to Roncesvalles to alleviate confusion. Obviously some will now reflexively react with disproportionate outrage, but it would make sense. Even just doing it for the 300m part of the street immediately south of Bloor St W (to where it already joins Roncesvalles Ave) could work. Most of the east side of the street is going to be redeveloped, and the buildings on the west side could keep their present street number, so this part of it would only involve changing a small number of street signs.
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Northern Light
Superstar
Slightly larger image of the stairs:
Workzone above those stairs, looking at a wall that will have a section removed for connecting tunnel:
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
See the The 11,000 Year Heritage of Roncesvalles Avenue at this link: https://pvhs.info/ronci/
nfitz
Superstar
Offhand, I can't think of many Toronto train stations that were named after streets back when they were first built over a century ago. Toronto North, York (now Danforth), Davenport, Union, Junction, Sunnyside, Don, Riverdale, etc. And the ones outside the old city would be named for their then rural communities. Mimico, Weston, Agincourt, Malton, Scarboro, etc.
I don't think Bloor station first appeared until the 1970s. A hundred years ago, there were no stations between Toronto East (at the CP/GTR junction) and Parkdale stations.
ethan.l.cecc
Active Member
Even today, the only other stations I can think of named after streets specifically (i.e. couldn't also be named after the surrounding community) are Kipling, Rutherford, and Old Cummer for current stations, and then King-Liberty, St. Clair Old Weston, and Finch-Kennedy in the future. I think it's very clear that roads being used to name stations is a relatively new trend (though there's always the chance the MX changes their mind on any station name).
As to Dundas West-Bloor, yeah Roncesvalles would be a much better name, though I'd make it Roncesvalles Junction (note: no hyphen), playing on the fact that the station acts as an entrance to The Junction neighbourhood, and is at a junction of railroads, and is a "junction" between multiple services (504, 505, Line 2, UP, Kitchener Line).
Metroscapes
Active Member
My issue with Roncesvalles is the street doesn't start until 300 metres south. We could just avoid that embarrassment of a Metrolinx Board meeting about Cedarvale and just follow the system we were using at TTC interchange stations.
Bloor-Dundas. Eglinton-Yonge. Eglinton-Allen. Eglinton-Don. Danforth-Pape.
Dan416
Senior Member
I could live with Bloor-Dundas. If they hadn't cobbled Dundas together to make it continuous, that part of the street would be Roncesvalles. I wonder if it was on pre-Dundas maps?