King-Victoria Transit Hub

[timio]

I'm curious if there's a caveat with the provincial funding that it all needs to be used at once - anything short would either forfeit the unused portion or not qualify because it's not the full hub it was designated for.

Complete speculation here, but would make sense with those designs and lack of future integration.

[LesPio]

The design compared to the original concepts is called "bait & switch"....I'm sure that the $40 million funding from the province will barely cover the cost of this.

[panamaniac]

The design compared to the original concepts is called "bait & switch"....I'm sure that the $40 million funding from the province will barely cover the cost of this.

More “concept that didn’t pan out” than bait and switch, istm.

[westwardloo]

Have your say about the transit hub at https://www.engagewr.ca/king-victoria-tr...8#tool_tab

[timio]

Biggest beef is the lack of platform access from anywhere other than the west end. People in the eastbound car would need to walk the entire length of the train and then halfway back to get to the bus loop.

[tomh009]

Biggest beef is the lack of platform access from anywhere other than the west end.  People in the eastbound car would need to walk the entire length of the train and then halfway back to get to the bus loop.

Eastbound car ... eastbound car ... do you mean Toronto-bound? I think those pax would be OK. Kitchener-bound pax would need to walk to the Waterloo St underpass.

[Rainrider22]

I filled out the survey. To me it is window dressing. Both concept A and B are horrible. I was blunt but I also added many ideas of what it should be... May be they will listen to us and hold off...

[danbrotherston]

I filled out the survey.  To me it is window dressing.  Both concept A and B are horrible.  I was blunt but I also added many ideas of what it should be...  May be they will listen to us and hold off...

I don't always agree with you, but yeah, they're bad...it's interesting though, Concept B is vastly worse, it's almost like that one exists to try and make A more palatable.

There is a bigger issue here, if the plan is to develop a transit building, and grand plaza separate from the development, that's fine, but it's a radical shift from the previous plans, they should mention that. Worse, they aren't even showing future plans here, they show surface parking and the existing buildings, what garbage! If they expect a future development, that should be included in the concept. And the plans themselves (the serious issues with B not withstanding) are incredibly boring and uninspired, and too deep at this level. What are they hoping to gain here? These look like staff were caught with their pants down and threw something together, honestly, I hope no architect was paid for this.

[tomh009]

They really can't show the future buildings there since the region won't be building those, and the private developer has nor yet been selected.

[timio]

Biggest beef is the lack of platform access from anywhere other than the west end.  People in the eastbound car would need to walk the entire length of the train and then halfway back to get to the bus loop.

Eastbound car ... eastbound car ... do you mean Toronto-bound? I think those pax would be OK. Kitchener-bound pax would need to walk to the Waterloo St underpass.

Eastern car. Sorry, wrong word.

On the platform, the eastern car passengers would need to get out, walk to the west end of the train, down the stairs, and then back.

[tomh009]

Eastbound car ... eastbound car ... do you mean Toronto-bound? I think those pax would be OK. Kitchener-bound pax would need to walk to the Waterloo St underpass.

Eastern car.  Sorry, wrong word.

On the platform, the eastern car passengers would need to get out, walk to the west end of the train, down the stairs, and then back.

OK, thanks for the correction.

Based on the image, pax in the first car in a Kitchener-bound train would need to walk about six car-lengths to get to the Waterloo St underpass and over to the bus bays (which would be located roughly in front of the underpass). The walk would not be so much different from that for the pax in the last car.

[ijmorlan]

They really can't show the future buildings there since the region won't be building those, and the private developer has nor yet been selected.

They can show an indistinct block, to suggest that there will be some sort of large high-rise development. This is perfectly normal to do. The “Grand Market District” at Fairview has published renderings that show additional future buildings, with no promise that they will actually be built exactly as shown. But they give the suggestion of what the rest of the development could or might look like, and clearly indicate that the intent is not to leave the rest of the parking lots as they are in the long term.

[timio]

Eastern car.  Sorry, wrong word.

On the platform, the eastern car passengers would need to get out, walk to the west end of the train, down the stairs, and then back.

OK, thanks for the correction.

Based on the image, pax in the first car in a Kitchener-bound train would need to walk about six car-lengths to get to the Waterloo St underpass and over to the bus bays (which would be located roughly in front of the underpass). The walk would not be so much different from that for the pax in the last car.

I'm not seeing a way to get from track level to ground level at the underpass, but maybe my eyesight isn't so great.

[danbrotherston]

They really can't show the future buildings there since the region won't be building those, and the private developer has nor yet been selected.

They can show massing, and shadows, this is exactly what they did for the first public consultation...where a developer hadn't been selected either.

Honestly, this looks so amateur, incredibly disappointing when next too the previous proposal.

[Rainrider22]

I filled out the survey.  To me it is window dressing.  Both concept A and B are horrible.  I was blunt but I also added many ideas of what it should be...  May be they will listen to us and hold off...

I don't always agree with you, but yeah, they're bad...it's interesting though, Concept B is vastly worse, it's almost like that one exists to try and make A more palatable.

There is a bigger issue here, if the plan is to develop a transit building, and grand plaza separate from the development, that's fine, but it's a radical shift from the previous plans, they should mention that. Worse, they aren't even showing future plans here, they show surface parking and the existing buildings, what garbage! If they expect a future development, that should be included in the concept. And the plans themselves (the serious issues with B not withstanding) are incredibly boring and uninspired, and too deep at this level. What are they hoping to gain here? These look like staff were caught with their pants down and threw something together, honestly, I hope no architect was paid for this.

You more or less said exactly what I articulated in the survey   I emphasized underwhelming too