King-Victoria Transit Hub

[danbrotherston]

It's entirely conceivable that they do the first phase which encompasses everything required for the station to be operational, so the platforms, bus loop, parking, King St Bridge, Victoria St reconstruction (assuming Ford doesn't get in the way) wait a bit and then do the actual building resulting in the entire project to encompass 5 years. After all we're dealing with Metrolinx and they can be difficult to work with.

There's no building in the 5 year plan. Look at the render, it's 5 years to build the station platforms, some access ramps, some bus platforms, and a passenger pick-up/dropoff. Once that's done they'll then begin the process to find a private partner to build the actual building as a part of a public-private partnership, which probably adds another decade (or more).

It's absolutely bonkers that it will take 5 years to build platforms, ramps, bus platform, and an overpass. Aside from the overpass, a single person using nothing more than hand tools could probably build all that in 5 years. This isn't an exaggeration, for the....what 75 million....they plan to spend, I would literally take the job myself.