06-29-2019, 11:40 PM
(06-29-2019, 08:39 PM)Lens Wrote: I still think the end platforms should have been center boarding.
The way the platforms are built is definitely wrong if both platforms will regularly be used for boarding. You will note that all permanent TTC subway terminal stations, past and present, are centre-platform, except for the Yonge part of Sheppard/Yonge where they only use a single platform (side-platform stations Woodbine and Keele were the original terminii of Line 2, but the extensions to centre-platform Islington and Warden started construction as soon as the initial portion of the line opened).
They should have either decided explicitly that one platform is for normal boarding, and the other for taking vehicles out of service; or built centre-platform stations; or built a tail track so the terminal station can operate like a non-terminal station. Given minimum headways of 7/8 minutes, a single platform should be enough — it does not take a full headway to process a vehicle in and back out again. This is not like the subway where you have much longer trains arriving every 2 minutes during rush hour.
Another possibility, which is used by Gold Coast LRT, is to extend one platform over one of the tracks until the extension is built. Then you can board from one platform and exit to the other platform, which can help with the large turnover common at terminal stations.