ARG1 said:
Its also worth noting that Toronto is 5x larger in terms of area than Vancouver is, and its especially worth noting that compared to Toronto - Metro Vancouver is an extremely polycentric region with Vancouver itself really only being a small part of it. This isn't a one-to-one comparison.
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Ancedotally, when I was visiting Vancouver with small kids in an old 1920s residential area, I was completely blown away how far a walk it was to the nearest playground (other than one for a private school that's behind a lock). About a kilometre. And only one playground! There's at least 7 parks/schools with open playgrounds within a kilometre of my 1920s house here. That doesn't include that one of those parks has 3 playgrounds and a seperate wading pool area!

They might have some pretty major parkland there - even near where I was - but not very useful with small kids.
 
GameOnBrad said:
BTW. I've noticed a second wall going up here and there. You can see it on the north side of the Eastern Transit Hub but also in the park on the south side of the Dundas Street Bridge.

Is this part of the foundation for the Ontario Line tracks that will run alongside the Go Line?

Eastern Transit Hub:

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Secondary wall just south of Dundas Street Go Transit Bridge. You can see it on the left side of the first photo. Same wall.

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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.

Because of that, that part of the embankment needs to be cut back further from the roads when compared to the embankment for the railway corridor.

Dan
 
Borrowing @kotsy 's image, here's a rough guess of where the tracks will actually end up. (GO yellow, Line 3 purple, GO platforms in red)(apologies for the shaky mouse action)

As you can see, there is a lot of work still to be done, but the footprint of the thing is starting to show up.

This makes me more certain that the current north "hot" track will have to shift eventually to allow construction of the southmost GO platform. That sure suggests that the two missing tracks and their platform will be built first.

- Paul

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PL1 said:
Have you been to Europe? Lots of tagging in e.g. Athens
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All 20 countries in Europe I have been too as well 35 cities, tagging is a lot worse there than here. Some of those countries are worse than others as you can see it from the train while going from city to city along the route.
 
crs1026 said:
Borrowing @kotsy 's image, here's a rough guess of where the tracks will actually end up. (GO yellow, Line 3 purple, GO platforms in red)(apologies for the shaky mouse action)

As you can see, there is a lot of work still to be done, but the footprint of the thing is starting to show up.

This makes me more certain that the current north "hot" track will have to shift eventually to allow construction of the southmost GO platform. That sure suggests that the two missing tracks and their platform will be built first.

- Paul

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That's a pretty wide corridor!
 
dullturtle06 said:
I agree, but I seems that for east Harbour the canopy can be added after the fact as the structural supports are placed outside the main station structure.View attachment 678569
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First of all...wow. I have never seen this picture..stunning and such a shame that everything seems to be descoped.


Also, lol.

Do you really expect us to ever build something like this after the fact ?
 
dullturtle06 said:
I agree, but I seems that for east Harbour the canopy can be added after the fact as the structural supports are placed outside the main station structure.View attachment 678569
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It's pretty clear from the rendering that the exterior support is insufficient for the canopy - it hosts columns in the interior of the station.

AoD
 
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