Greater Vancouver Population to Grow 40% by 2041

[Tetsuo]

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Thanks, forgot about Churchill and Laurier. There's a senior's home and a synagogue, sure, but also a whole bunch of detached housing that could be upzoned.

Yeah the homes bordered by Laurel, Oak 57and58

There is large empty lot on the north side of 57 that surrounds a SFH, not sure if it's still empty, but it was the Churchill smoke pit.

[cairnstone]

Do to original design of the Canada Line and leaning out the project, all that was done for the Dogwood station was to crest a level section of the line. No station structure was created so a good portion of the construction will have to be limited to small late night windows when the CL is closed. Its to bad the 3 P partners had such a low budget threshold that the future station upgrades will alnost never happen. I believe 33rd is where a second station is supposed to be

[Tetsuo]

Remember when Vancouver was floating the idea of selling off a parcel of Langara Golf Course for ca$h?

Would probably be portion fronting Cambie and 57th.

Too bad it's too expensive to build a station, as you have Dogwood, Gardens, Golf course, and a lot of SFH to extract fees for a station, but not enough for what is needed.

[Migrant_Coconut]

The Parks Board is still thinking of repurposing the golf course as a parks & rec space. Maybe tie a second entrance to the redesign, so that CACs for the park fund the station - even better if there's a revenue-generating element like a zoo or something.

[officedweller]

It's not impossible to build a in-fill station, and construction can occur during operating hours.

North York Centre Station was built on the Yonge Line that way:

Building a new station around a subway tunnel that is already in service posed unique challenges to construction. Yonge Street was excavated and decked over to minimize disruption to traffic. Workers had to dig around the subway tunnel to build the frame of the subway station’s two levels. The platform’s concrete floor could only be poured as far as the existing subway tunnel walls, for the workers had to wait until the concrete was properly set before those walls could be cut out. The cutting of the tunnel walls could only be done when the subway was shut down for the night. Once this was done, the remainder of the rider platforms were completed. The central wall between the two tracks was only opened up slightly and tiled over in the same basic white with blue accents as the rest of the station. Subway trains, passing through the station site, ran slow to protect construction workers, giving subway patrons a quick tour of the construction through their windows as they passed.

North York Centre Station, once opened, boasted a mezzanine level as well as a platform level. Escalators take passengers from the street level and the city centre development to the mezzanine level as well as between the mezzanine level and the platform. Construction was helped by the fact that a lot of the surrounding developments were under construction at the same time as the station, allowing workers to build access into surrounding buildings from the start, including North York City Centre.

North York Centre station opened on time on July 18, 1987 at a final cost of $25 million. Opening ceremonies were held at 10 a.m. with North York mayor Mel Lastman cutting the ribbon alongside Metro Chairman Dennis Flynn and Ontario Minister of Transportation Ed Fulton. The station officially opened to passengers at 2 p.m. that afternoon.

https://transit.toronto.on.ca/subway...k-centre.shtml

For Dogwood Pearson, the main issue would be if an underpass below the existing tunnel is required.

[fredinno]

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

The Parks Board is still thinking of repurposing the golf course as a parks & rec space. Maybe tie a second entrance to the redesign, so that CACs for the park fund the station - even better if there's a revenue-generating element like a zoo or something.

I have a lot to say about this, but it'd be better off as its own thread.