Well if budget not a concern, extend the line from Hunter back down to Confederation, and run alternating route of Lakeshore West (Hunter / West Harbour).
 
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I agree it’s a bit of an operational headache compared to using WH and CNs line in general. But, there’s something about the age and history of access to TH&B that precedes much of GO- it feels like they have an implicit commitment to service this station ad infinatum, even if it isn’t on the radar for modernization atm.

I do wish it would be easier to upgrade service here. No other station has to deal with a tunnel driving up the cost of improvement. Luckily Metrolinx seems to want to upgrade it, albeit on a longer timeframe.

I would probably only be ok with them switching to CNs line (exclusively) if they renovated Liuna Station as an expansion of WH, seeing how much platform space could be reactivated… but there’s still no reason to close this station. I would love for GO to at least consider options for tying back into CNs line further east, though.
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Well they are actually making significant upgrades to it this summer. Apparently the value of the project is between 20 and 200 million dollars, so not insignificant.
 
Today:
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This angle highlights in a way I haven't appreciated before the unusual design decisions that shaped this into what it is. Why build basically a sideways skyscraper that a vertical skyscraper emerges from? Why not build two tall buildings, one facing James and one facing Hughson, with a reasonable podium connecting them? On the one hand, this creates the weird 10+ storey wall that runs the whole length of the block along Jackson. On the other hand, I guess this design also does a great favour to the owner of the parking lot at Main and Hughson, offering a far superior environment for that parcel to be developed into a high-rise in the future. But the developer of this site wouldn't care much about that (right? LIUNA doesn't own the parking lot as far as I know... who does?)... I would love to be a fly on the years-ago wall to hear how these counter-intuitive design decisions got made.

Edit: Quick math tells me that if any one of the 4th-8th floors of this building were turned sideways, it would be one of the top 10 tallest buildings in Hamilton. Incredibly weird design!

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