10-20-2018, 10:42 PM
(10-20-2018, 09:51 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Those buildings don't exist now, though. It would be fairly easy/inexpensive to move the stations (to the King St underpass, for example) once they do.
All the concept drawings for the transit terminal show the existing LRT station continuing to exist as it is outside of the actual transit terminal building itself. There is no plan to truly integrate the stations as one might expect when both are planned together. Of course we already expect this lack of coordination from the fiasco of the traction power substation occupying the space that should have been used for the Waterloo St. pedestrian tunnel.
At the malls I agree that bringing the LRT in so that the station adjoins the mall building is harder than it looks, especially with the mall owners being so stupid as to think that LRT won’t be bringing in a substantial portion of their clientele. But realistically I’m not expecting those stations to be integrated in the foreseeable future. It’s just not the way we do things in this city.