I got this from my contact @ Union Station.

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DSCToronto said:
I got this from my contact @ Union Station.

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Incredible! "This Summer" so safe to assume after the World Cup.

Speaking of heritage plaques, I found this wandering around the station.

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And there it is, a (to me) unseen photo of that original clock and Traveller's Aid booth.

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If you can ask your contact to dispel the mystery please, is it returning to the Great Hall as it seems to be in the Union Station revitalization rendering and referenced on its website?
 
Speaking of the Traveller's Aid booth, I went in for a closer look, and it's in really bad shape. Besides the horrid condition of the booth itself, neither the board nor even the displays below them work anymore.

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So yeah, I have to believe that this will be restored too, they're not going to go through the trouble of restoring the floor with stone from the original quarry, and then leaving this piece of shit sitting in the middle of the Great Hall.
 
Maybe I’m an outliner here but the ownership differences don’t look too crazy, Metrolinx owns their 3 concourses (I believe Metrolinx fully took ownership of the south areas show in pink, it’s no longer split like the diagram shows), and the city owns everything else.

Does Hines still own the bay east teamway or was that just during construction? This diagram was made when 81 Bay was still under construction
 
nightstreak said:
Incredible! "This Summer" so safe to assume after the World Cup.

Speaking of heritage plaques, I found this wandering around the station.

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And there it is, a (to me) unseen photo of that original clock and Traveller's Aid booth.

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If you can ask your contact to dispel the mystery please, is it returning to the Great Hall as it seems to be in the Union Station revitalization rendering and referenced on its website?
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I asked my Union Station expert and she says she has never heard it was saved and that it is certainly not 'stored in the Station'. Personally, I strongly doubt anyone saved it and would be very surprised if it or the clock still exist. The only possible place might be the City Museum & Heritage Services warehouse on Atlantic Avenue, have you asked them? tara.chadwick@toronto.ca (I think.)

On a related note, I was told that Osmington are actively working on leasing the area on north side of the Great Hall but any leasee will have lots of work to do, after the floor and lighting are completed.
 
nightstreak said:
I'm guilty of contributing to those lines. I notice the McCafe kiosks always have people huffing that they can't find burgers on the menu only to be pointed downstairs but I'm not sure a full service McD's would make sense on 2 levels right above one another; the app already breaks because it thinks you're in one and not the other.

So maybe it's time for an expansion. The kitchen is quite fast, there just isn't enough room for service and for those waiting. They should eliminate some or all of the seating area and add more kiosks and a larger dedicated pickup counter, most people take it to go.
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Is there an available location in the Bay Concourse? Right now there's only a Tim Hortons, and down one level there's the 'foodie court' (or whatever it's called). Having a second location on the other side of the station, even a smaller 'satellite' one would help. There's two Timmies in the station, soooo...
 
DSCToronto said:
I asked my Union Station expert and she says she has never heard it was saved and that it is certainly not 'stored in the Station'. Personally, I strongly doubt anyone saved it and would be very surprised if it or the clock still exist.
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Years ago Derek Boles and myself went into the CRHA storage closet at Union Station near where corridor is between arrivals and the York Concourse. Right about where the barbers was (is?).

There was nothing even remotely looking like sections of the former information booth in there. The TRHA did not have it either.

If it was anything like the Oak Room parts if it are in people's homes.
 
The Bay East Teamway’s entrance via CIBC Sauare is open and the doors in the teamway are closed while workers finish the teamway.
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The doors to teamway (on the left) are boarded up. Likely that they’ll be converted to windows like the rest of the teamway.
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