The stations for the Ontario Line at Dundas and Queen are being built as much longer bridges than the bridges already in place for the railway corridor. This is to allow for a concourse, fare gates, vertical accesses, etc. at the ground level and underneath the trains.
That's a pretty wide corridor!
6 tracks wide plus station platforms in that location! But it is pretty amazing to see how fast it is all coming together.
And just imagine how sad and pathetic Union Station would look like if it were built in today's age.
First of all...wow. I have never seen this picture..stunning and such a shame that everything seems to be descoped.
Sorry if I'm being harsh but these responses are all too typical - there's always an excuse. I don't think the difference between the public realm in Toronto and Vancouver is as much as some say, but I do think that we need to stop making excuses. The size of the city or the number of parks shouldn't make a difference to whether or not our major streets look half decent.
... what exactly am I excusing? I'm not entirely sure what it is you think I'm arguing. I'm simply making a factual observation - comparing the quantity of parks in 2 completely arbitrary and non-comparable city limits is a pointless metric that doesn't give us any meaningful information. Toronto's city limits are quite broad, and include a vast amount of suburbia where its extremely easy to build small parks/playgrounds, as well swaths of natural ravines and rivers that inflate the amount of greenspace. Most importantly, this metric tells us nothing about how much greenspace there is in urban areas such as downtown Toronto. Meanwhile Vancouver has far more restrictive city limits, which prominiently excludes parkland that is otherwise quite close to the city - such as those found in the University Endowment Lands, and the various mountains and greenspace north of North Vancouver.