[christiesplits]

On UrbanToronto I only use this account! I’ve thought about a website for everything I’ve ever made but I honestly don’t have the time to dedicate for that.

Here are the 10 maps of Union Station I’ve done so far:

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When I’m finished the entire project I’m going to renumber the maps into something easier to understand, right now it’s kind of nonsensical.

Here’s a subject to change concept i hastily drew up last week:

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Really impressive! Thanks for sharing.

 

[DSCToronto]

This is a few weeks old now, bollards are being installed at the front of the Bay East Moat:

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This area is such a disaster, I wish a bigger focus was put on fixing up the sidewalks and streets around Union during the renovations.

It really is bizarre. Why are bollards OK for the East Moat but not in front of the station where they invested in expensive and imported concrete blocks and why are pretty decent stainless steel bollards OK in front of the new Courthouse but not at Unit?

 

[Amare]

This is a few weeks old now, bollards are being installed at the front of the Bay East Moat:

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This area is such a disaster, I wish a bigger focus was put on fixing up the sidewalks and streets around Union during the renovations.

Prime example of why this city doesnt make any sense whatsoever. So they can commission something that looks competent here, but right in front of the station (notwithstanding the fact they have to deal with the subway tunnel and concourse) they come up with rubbish concrete blocks?

This city really is baffling.

 

[dufferin1]

The blocks which are pretty new are also already filthy. Took this Sep 20th:

 

[kev1n1m]

It really is bizarre. Why are bollards OK for the East Moat but not in front of the station where they invested in expensive and imported concrete blocks and why are pretty decent stainless steel bollards OK in front of the new Courthouse but not at Unit?

From my understanding from previous posts in this thread, there is very little clearance below Front St. to the Union Station mezzanine to allow for proper bollard installation, hence the much shallower blocks. And that's why bollard are on Bay St, they have better clearance below ground.

 

[nightstreak]

It really is bizarre. Why are bollards OK for the East Moat but not in front of the station where they invested in expensive and imported concrete blocks and why are pretty decent stainless steel bollards OK in front of the new Courthouse but not at Unit?
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There’s no subway station 50cm under the Courthouse.

 

[Amare]

From my understanding from previous posts in this thread, there is very little clearance below Front St. to the Union Station mezzanine to allow for proper bollard installation, hence the much shallower blocks. And that's why bollard are on Bay St, they have better clearance below ground.

Yes while this is true, the city had better options they couldve gone with. But they chose abomination.

 

[mike0001]

I saw these two styles of bollards go up on Bay outside of the Mowat Block

 

[nightstreak]

This is a few weeks old now, bollards are being installed at the front of the Bay East Moat:

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This area is such a disaster, I wish a bigger focus was put on fixing up the sidewalks and streets around Union during the renovations.

These are the shallow installation bollards. They're also being installed on the central portion of Front Street.

If they have a shallow solution, I don't get why they thought they had to install those ugly concrete blocks instead of just these bollards throughout.

I just hope the bollards get installed on the sides along Bay and York because benches there will be disastrous congestion for pedestrian crowds. I'd say even worse than the jersey barriers because those are visible and also funnel people instead of sitting at shin level completely in the way of people walking.