livesquid said:
So this gets extended one more span to the north (ontario line tracks) and then the whole thing is extended twice, once on each side?
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Correct! And I was surprised today too see the next North span before the weekend. However, they've only add 4 columns so far, while the other 3 platforms got 8 each. Not sure if this one will get less or they're just half done. I'm assuming it's the latter.

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Exhibition is going to be super impressive. The first station in the region besides Union to feel like you could call it a destination in its own right.

It really feels dramatically different than say Mount Dennis or Bloor / Dundas West (where it feels like separate facilities connected by tunnels) in that we have a truly unified structure with a huge roof canopy, high capacity platform access, escalators, washrooms, faregates for GO (seemingly) and more. Also isn't just the standard GO kit of parts.

Would be interesting to ask what other stations may get this treatment - Woodbine sort of? Perhaps eventual expansion of Danforth?
 
innsertnamehere said:
It’s puzzling to me that Metrolinx has clearly shelled out on Exhibition while it’s doing East Harbour on a budget despite similar levels of importance.
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I think it might be due to the location of exhibition being the hub into Ontario place and other waterfront venues but I'm not from Toronto and I could have my geography completely wrong and if I get in trouble for that I will own it 😅
 
innsertnamehere said:
It’s puzzling to me that Metrolinx has clearly shelled out on Exhibition while it’s doing East Harbour on a budget despite similar levels of importance.
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My guess is it's related to East Harbour starting out as a SmartTrack/GO Expansion station. From looking at the respective station plans, Exhibition is much more integrated with the OL, with both GO and the OL behind the faregates, while East Harbour only puts the OL behind the faregates, and you're basically moving into an adjacent station building (including passing through sets of doors) if you change to the GO train.

East Harbour was contracted out separately from the rest of the OL stations, and whenever they've released updated renders of the OL, East Harbour is never included, it's renders are released separately. It feels like East Harbour is a separate already existing project that they added an OL station to via a change request, rather than something designed as a hybrid OL/GO station from the ground up. This kind of makes sense when you consider the OL is on it's own elevated tracks beside the main East Harbour GO station (as that's where it separates from the main GO corridor to cross the river on the new bridge). So it wouldn't have had as much of an impact on the design of the GO station itself, and I'd guess MX therefore left the existing GO station plans mostly as they were to save money. Whereas Exhibition's old plans wouldn't have had any place for surface-level OL tracks, so the station needed to be fully redesigned, in a way East Harbour didn't (but probably should have been, but alas).
 
Also, Exhibition Station has a demonstrated local area demand at present, whereas East Harbour's local area demand (CF's TOD) will be built out in the future. It could be that the station will be improved and expanded in future as the TOD is built out.
 
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