[GameOnBrad]

In my mailbox...

 

[NY99]

Yep. Up to the existing concourse, then over to the vertical shaft that's being built at the corner of Osgoode Hall. All the vertical access between the two lines is being built in that shaft. So you'd go down there, to the OL concourse, and then down again to the platform. It's clunky, but my understanding is that the logic was it means they don't have to underpin the existing Osgoode station (underpinning Eglinton station when they built Line 5 turned into a total mess which delayed the entire Crosstown), as they won't be building directly below it until you're down in the bedrock. So in theory, you're trading simpler (and ideally faster) construction for a worse transfer. Whether that's worth it or not is debatable.

Now if you want to get into the really dumb part of Osgoode's new design, if you want to get to Line 1 from the Simcoe entrance, you'd need to go down to the OL, all the way along the concourse, back up to the Line 1 concourse, and then down to the Line 1 platform. Presumably no one will intentionally do this and they'll just walk down the street to the Queen/University entrances, but there's absolutely going to be toruists/new residents/etc. who at least once will try to use the Simcoe entrance to get to Line 1 and have to traverse basically the entire station to do so.

I've been to cities like Paris and London as a tourist where I've done exactly this. A lot of station designs in those cities are "suboptimal" the same way Osgoode will be. It's not the end of the world.

 

[TossYourJacket]

I've been to cities like Paris and London as a tourist where I've done exactly this. A lot of station designs in those cities are "suboptimal" the same way Osgoode will be. It's not the end of the world.

Yeah, I think as long as they get the wayfinding right it should be fine in the end.

 

[ctf5650]

It would be a bigger deal if Queen wasn't right there with an (I presume) easier transfer. Much less of a big deal than if the Cedarvale transfer was terrible vs Eglinton-Yonge for example.

 

[Archii]

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It would be a bigger deal if Queen wasn't right there with an (I presume) easier transfer. Much less of a big deal than if the Cedarvale transfer was terrible vs Eglinton-Yonge for example.

The transfer at Queen will be deeeeep but indeed a straight line. From Steve Munro:

 

[nfitz]

4 escalators to change lines? 6 escalators (or is it 5 escalators and a stair case) to get to Yonge Street outside the Eatons Centre?

Should be two at most. Long ones, not lots of short ones.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

4 escalators to change lines? 6 escalators (or is it 5 escalators and a stair case) to get to Yonge Street outside the Eatons Centre?

Should be two at most. Long ones, not lots of short ones.

What happens when even one of the escalators are out-of-service for maintenance? Will they be only pairs of escalators not triple escalators? What about the elevators? What happens when one of the elevators is out-of-service? What happens when an elevator AND and an escalator are both out-of-service?

Not to worry the designer, who never used public transit in his or her life, has the answer.