[Amare]

• Until 6 a.m. on Thurs., Aug. 21, the following routes are diverting to accommodate road work at Kipling Station:

- 40 Junction-Dundas West
- 44 Kipling South
- 45 Kipling
- 46 Martin Grove
- 149 Etobicoke-Bloor
- 944 Kipling South
- 945 Kipling Express
- 300 Bloor Danforth Night

For the love of God, how many times are we going to have to go through something at Kipling Station.

This is the 3rd time in about 10 years (and 2nd time in 2 years) where the TTC has completely shut down or restricted buses in the bus bay for reconstruction, and each time they do it they do some kind of half-ass work and they dont rebuild the full terminal.

The 1st time they replaced some (but not all asphalt sections) with concrete pads for whatever idiotic reason which lead to the existing aging asphalt sinking in some areas. The most recent time they did rolling closures of bus bays, they rebuilt plaform areas but didnt repair the areas where concrete was deteriorating (ie: the entrance to the station).

Now we're going through yet another batch of repairs? Just repair the whole damn station at once and be done with it, my goodness.

 

[drum118]

For the love of God, how many times are we going to have to go through something at Kipling Station.

This is the 3rd time in about 10 years (and 2nd time in 2 years) where the TTC has completely shut down or restricted buses in the bus bay for reconstruction, and each time they do it they do some kind of half-ass work and they dont rebuild the full terminal.

The 1st time they replaced some (but not all asphalt sections) with concrete pads for whatever idiotic reason which lead to the existing aging asphalt sinking in some areas. The most recent time they did rolling closures of bus bays, they rebuilt plaform areas but didnt repair the areas where concrete was deteriorating (ie: the entrance to the station).

Now we're going through yet another batch of repairs? Just repair the whole damn station at once and be done with it, my goodness.

Better sill, move most the service to the New Cloverdale subway Station along with GO and miWay. Only nee 3 bays for service and 2 spare for shuttle service when the line is close. TTC will save time and money having service out of Cloverdale that will have room to expand bus service. Same goes for GO and miWay.

Of all the terminal stations built, Kipling was the only one to cut in size on day one and a major problem since then.

What entrance are you talking about as the west was rebuilt last year??

 

[Amare]

What entrance are you talking about as the west was rebuilt last year??

The west roadway entrance for buses.

 

[Steve X]

Do we know if this is work within Kipling Station or road work on St Albans ramp to Kipling as those affordable housing towers are going up? The routes listed are the only ones that would go up that way.

 

[Dan416]

Also, new Don Valley Line 5 maps have been installed at the surface stops.

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Hmm good luck finding Yonge Street on this map lol. I don't think there's a single station name that is more useless than this.

 

[nfitz]

Hmm good luck finding Yonge Street on this map lol. I don't think there's a single station name that is more useless than this.

??? It literally says "Yonge" on the map below Eglinton. And I thought it was going to be under the station name on the platform.

Of all the things ...

 

[picard102]

??? It literally says "Yonge" on the map below Eglinton. And I thought it was going to be under the station name on the platform.

Of all the things ...

It also says it under Cedarvale.

 

[nfitz]

It also says it under Cedarvale.

In big letters under the station platform?

Unlikely. And if people don't know Toronto there's plenty of real maps.

 

[Dan416]

??? It literally says "Yonge" on the map below Eglinton. And I thought it was going to be under the station name on the platform.

Of all the things ...

It shows Line 1 Yonge-University. That doesn't explicitly tell you that that station is at Yonge, because as picard102 pointed out, it says the same thing at Cedarvale station. So again, it's not instantly apparent what station is at Yonge Street. Or frankly any other major north-south street. In a system map you can kinda figure it out. But on this map alone, it's impossible to know. So that's why the station names are a fail.

 

[Jonny5]

If you are trying to get to Yonge Street, and you somehow get all the way to actually boarding a train, and still have no clue or concept of where you get off for Yonge Street, you are a moron, straight up, full stop.
And even then, such a moron can still open their mouth and ask someone where it is, like a grown up.

No. We don't need to dumb things down and cater to stupidity at that level.
This is almost as dumb as that commentor obsessed how Dundas station isn't named Eaton Centre station, because "how else will tourists going to the Eaton Centre ever know where they are supposed to get off the train?" because he assumes there's actually people who get on the train to go somewhere that they don't already know where it is. What a silly argument.

 

[Amare]

Do we know if this is work within Kipling Station or road work on St Albans ramp to Kipling as those affordable housing towers are going up? The routes listed are the only ones that would go up that way.

Not a great picture, but its in the exact area I suspected, the east side of the entrance to the bus roadway. The concrete road bed needs to be repaired, so essentially buses traveling along St.Albans aren't able to turn into the station (thus routes 40, 44, 45, 46, 149, 944, 945, 300 are all diverting via Dundas).

They had more than a year to address the issue when Kipling was last under construction 2 years ago, and they chose not to do it.

So now the TTC decided to come back and inconvenience riders because they cant plan projects properly. And i'm fully willing to wager that they wont repair the rest of the bus roadway that's still asphalt, and they'll come back next year and decide to do it for whatever idiotic reasoning they have because they cant use logic to do things properly the first, 2nd, or 3rd time around.

 

[Steve X]

Not a great picture, but its in the exact area I suspected, the east side of the entrance to the bus roadway. The concrete road bed needs to be repaired, so essentially buses traveling along St.Albans aren't able to turn into the station (thus routes 40, 44, 45, 46, 149, 944, 945, 300 are all diverting via Dundas).

They had more than a year to address the issue when Kipling was last under construction 2 years ago, and they chose not to do it.

So now the TTC decided to come back and inconvenience riders because they cant plan projects properly. And i'm fully willing to wager that they wont repair the rest of the bus roadway that's still asphalt, and they'll come back next year and decide to do it for whatever idiotic reasoning they have because they cant use logic to do things properly the first, 2nd, or 3rd time around.

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I never understand these band-aid solution. What happens to brains at the TTC?

 

[turbanplanner]

Not a great picture, but its in the exact area I suspected, the east side of the entrance to the bus roadway. The concrete road bed needs to be repaired, so essentially buses traveling along St.Albans aren't able to turn into the station (thus routes 40, 44, 45, 46, 149, 944, 945, 300 are all diverting via Dundas).

They had more than a year to address the issue when Kipling was last under construction 2 years ago, and they chose not to do it.

So now the TTC decided to come back and inconvenience riders because they cant plan projects properly. And i'm fully willing to wager that they wont repair the rest of the bus roadway that's still asphalt, and they'll come back next year and decide to do it for whatever idiotic reasoning they have because they cant use logic to do things properly the first, 2nd, or 3rd time around.

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This is why I laugh when people say more funding would fix all the problems! It's definitely an issue but the bigger problem is nobody (with any power) is incentivized to do a good job.

 

[DSCToronto]

I never understand these band-aid solution. What happens to brains at the TTC?

Probably short-turned?

 

[Bordercollie]

Bu

For the love of God, how many times are we going to have to go through something at Kipling Station.

This is the 3rd time in about 10 years (and 2nd time in 2 years) where the TTC has completely shut down or restricted buses in the bus bay for reconstruction, and each time they do it they do some kind of half-ass work and they dont rebuild the full terminal.

The 1st time they replaced some (but not all asphalt sections) with concrete pads for whatever idiotic reason which lead to the existing aging asphalt sinking in some areas. The most recent time they did rolling closures of bus bays, they rebuilt plaform areas but didnt repair the areas where concrete was deteriorating (ie: the entrance to the station).

Now we're going through yet another batch of repairs? Just repair the whole damn station at once and be done with it, my goodness.

Thats nothing. Sheppard Yonge has been closed for over a year. Most work was already completed in April. But it's still closed for some reason and they keep the escalator running to spend extra money on electricity.