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Originally Posted by gjhall
Definitely much better.
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yes, the plan finally takes into account the reality that this station is adjacent to actual neighbourhoods that yield important -- and growing -- walk-on traffic to this station; to whit:
- It now shows how Mechaniccsville residents might access the station, with a path on the correct side of the Scott-Transitway alignment (no extra looping, in fact "no extra looping around" could be the motto for all of the improvements in this version of the plan);
- It gives Hintonburg residents the direct path that they've been voting for with their feet for years (no looping along the alignment of the Bayview sidewalk); and
- It gives western neighbours direct access to the O-Train platform (no huge loop around).
Also, I agree that a new structure isn't required... unless of course we were tearing down that wall, and submerging the whole line (but we've all heard my "if we're building a subway anyway, let's build a proper modern subway" spiel before). hopefully more such savings from smart compromises and scale-downs are being found elsewhere; e.g. lets just not overbuild a massive, tempo, Tunney's Pasture Bus Depot and Exchange Station and just go all the way to Lincoln Fields and Baseline in 2017 where major transfer facilities already exist?