Some more renders that I found... direct from the architect's website:
mcfarlane biggar architects + designers
http://www.officemb.ca/
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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture
why are there so many fare-gates in this station, yet so few at the busiest stations... including Canada Line.
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It's hard to compare between retrofitting older stations and building anew...
The Canada Line stations were retrofitted with fare-gates as part of a multi-station compatibility upgrade scheme. The scope of that particular project was just to add fare-gates as quickly and cheaply as possible given the budget, forecasts, specs, and timelines that they had at the time.... There was some work done to expand various Expo Line station enclosures to make them all fit indoors, but anything outside of that narrow scope (e.g. future-proofing) was basically not considered.
Perhaps in a decade or two, we'll see the station upgrades move on towards the Millennium and Canada Lines to fix the bottlenecks that were induced by the initial round of fare-gates...