King-Victoria Transit Hub

[ijmorlan]

That’s the absolute minimum. Personally, I consider it a travesty if LRT riders, residents of Station Park, or workers at Google have to go outside to get to the trains. But then, I’m just a big technology enthusiast — specifically, the technologies of roofs, walls, windows, and central heating!

I think that's a bit much, you have to go outside at Union Station to get a train, I'd be happy if there was a roof.  But I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't.

I do hope there is a station building however, it's cold in the winter waiting for a train.

As to the train platform, I’m OK with what Union Station has for most tracks, which is that they are covered. Expecting a heated train shed (presumably with garage doors at each end that open only when a train is entering or exiting) is going too far, even for me. Although in a new build it might be worth considering platform edge doors. We only need one platform to start, with a second one eventually (at the point where GO service extends west of Kitchener, or where we have GO twice an hour plus some Via service on top of that). Of course making platform edge doors compatible with both GO and Via (both door placement and height) would be challenging…

I’m really talking more about getting from Station Park or Google (or UW Pharmacy, for that matter) to the train station building, where I will fall off my chair if I learn that even a rain-protected covered link (never mind fully enclosed) is to be built. This city simply doesn’t do that; and the only existing such links I know of (two bridges in downtown Kitchener) regularly get slagged as useless and unattractive.