[Amare]

What an absolute, laughable embarrassment.

For the love of God is there one thing this city can do properly? Anyone notice a trend here: they cant install proper functioning garbage/recycling receptacles, they cant install transit shelters that are actually useful, they cant install proper bollards, all without re-inventing a solution that already exists and paying 10x the costs, etc, etc.

Everything that's been done by the public sector in this city in the past 30 years has either been so sterile or bland, to the point that i'm so appreciative for what our forefathers in the 40's, 50's, 60s, 70s, and 80s did for Toronto. Without them, I cant even imagine how dull and depressing this city would be today.

 

[reinventingthewheel]

Why such narrow passages? Why not space them apart like one foot less than the width of a compact car?

This looks like the bare minimum to wheel a suitcase through. Surely some people will sprawl out on these things in the summer and congest the space even more.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Maybe we can call these Honecker's blocks.

AoD

 

[wmedia]

Surely these aren't the finished product? Surely.... Surely??

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Surely these aren't the finished product? Surely.... Surely??

Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

AoD

 

[Isotack]

Er…those look all buttery?

If only they would melt in the sun

 

[Isotack]

Multiple canvas for "street art" here we come!

 

[Tunafish13]

Just went down to get some more pics, it's honestly not that bad when there are a lot of them....

 

[evandyk]

So many people are going to trip over those while reading their phone and walking.

 

[nightstreak]

omg this is comically bad. Did the contractor space them so close together so they could sell more of them? Is there a 1 metre wide car out there that we dont know about? Do they realize that people arrive by the hundreds at Union Station at rush hour?

And the Bike Share station which acted as a barrier between the street and the plaza and hinted at how this could have been handled (street furniture not blocks), was instead moved to.... wait for it.... in front of the stairs! The path to and from the subway where all those people are actually going has been narrowed and the side closest to the wall effectively blocked when there are people going up and down the other side.

Well, I guess it'll be a week before they find out this won't work and another 8-10 years before they fix it.

 

[torontowest91]

So many people are going to trip over those while reading their phone and walking.

It has already happened.

How much longer till they are vandalized?

 

[kotsy]

It's absolutely ridiculous they haven't removed the jersey barriers during the installation of these new blocks. With both of them present, the access is incredibly limited.

 

[nightstreak]

It's absolutely ridiculous they haven't removed the jersey barriers during the installation of these new blocks. With both of them present, the access is incredibly limited.

2-3 more years of planning, contracting mobile cranes on trucks and searching for a drop off location for crumbling jersey barriers and scheduling dates years in advance, don't you already know? There's an "it's not my job" culture at City Hall.

 

[mburrrrr]

At least we can sit down just don’t put your legs east/west during rush hour. This will probably be the new hangout.

Unbearable smell walking through the great hall last night.

The west end of the Bay bridge path into Union is coming along.

 

[Towered]

At least we can sit down just don’t put your legs east/west during rush hour. This will probably be the new hangout.

Unbearable smell walking through the great hall last night.

The west end of the Bay bridge path into Union is coming along.

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What was the nature of the stench?