I live near Danforth GO, so I take the GO to Union and Exhibition quite often already. What it *WILL* do is, besides taking some pressure off of the Yonge line, be a more direct route to downtown from the Thornecliff, Don Mills, and Willowdale regions of North York.
Toronto needs as many people as possible out of their cars and onto public transit. Maybe I'm weird but I think it's far better to sit back and read a book or something on a bus, subway, or train than to ride in a car through the nightmare of traffic! Everyone using cars all the time is not the future. Great and informative video.
@@davidreichert9392 I disagree. Other than the possible exception of going downtown at certain times.Toronto public Transit is woefully innadequate compared to cars and this is speaking with decades of experience. Even going to downtown I am more likely to take public transit simply because of the cost of parking or because I will be drinking not because it would be quicker or more efficient. And again I need to stress that is only going to downtown. going anywhere else it's car everytime. Our cities are far far to downtown centric.
@@Seagaltalk There's more to public transport in the GTA than the TTC though. I make use of GO frequently, which is pretty good and reliable. The answer of course is to improve on transit and start funding it properly, not abandon it.
It's gonna be amazing when the Ontario Line is completed and officially opens! The southern terminus, Exhibition Station, will provide Union Station with some competition.
How do you explain that overhead pedestrian bridge ? It will be removed to build the canopy over the tracks. How will Metrolinx cover huge surges during sporting events at the CNE if they can't already with the existing underpass tunnels. They had ample time and space to widen the tunnels, or build a second tunnel. I think that the building of that pedestrian bridge was a criminal waste of taxpayer money. Can you explain it ? Aarre Peltomaa of Mississauga, Ontario
Are you referring to the temporary pedestrian bridge? I'm not a Metrolinx insider but according to them "The bridge is designed to help reduce congestion in the existing tunnel during special events at Exhibition Place and Ontario Place." You raise a good point though, I think generally our city and country are not proactive but reactive with infrastructure. We should have had much more infrastructure in place before our population surged over the last decade. www.metrolinx.com/en/discover/exciting-early-work-underway-at-exhibition-station
And even worse, it's not even accessible. I asked one of the service people there when I was coming back from the CNE this past August, and they told me that it was temporary. My response was "Temporary? Yeah, right, it'll be here for 20 years."
hmm Do you live in this area? The traffic is already at a breaking point and the idea of hundreds of dump trucks a day soon in the area will make it worse. I live on Close and Springhurst at times for hours our street is full of non-moving traffic and if you live in the building forget about getting home some days, one has to park a few blocks away and park and then theres Gord Perks who only answer was to any of this "its the price we pay for the future" Metrolinks the most corrupt of organizations should float the ide of maybe putting the waste onto a barge as the water is nearby and then putting it somewhere it was done when the subway and grenadier pond were dug out. The city is as backwards as it gets and did not think of the future of its population until it was too late,
This will make travel around downtown and east so much easier
I live near Danforth GO, so I take the GO to Union and Exhibition quite often already. What it *WILL* do is, besides taking some pressure off of the Yonge line, be a more direct route to downtown from the Thornecliff, Don Mills, and Willowdale regions of North York.
Thank you for doing a video that was short and sweet. Others might have done 30 minutes, unnecessarily.
Came here to say the same. All the stats and salient information in less than 3 minutes. Keep that up.
Nice video. Thank you for the info. Keep it up.
Toronto needs as many people as possible out of their cars and onto public transit. Maybe I'm weird but I think it's far better to sit back and read a book or something on a bus, subway, or train than to ride in a car through the nightmare of traffic! Everyone using cars all the time is not the future.
Great and informative video.
I don't think you're weird at all. I'm totally of the same mind.
Ya you're weird. Public transit is a nightmare
@@Seagaltalk It can be bad at times, but overall car traffic is the worst nightmare in Toronto. Transit is often bad, driving is always bad.
@@davidreichert9392 I disagree. Other than the possible exception of going downtown at certain times.Toronto public Transit is woefully innadequate compared to cars and this is speaking with decades of experience. Even going to downtown I am more likely to take public transit simply because of the cost of parking or because I will be drinking not because it would be quicker or more efficient. And again I need to stress that is only going to downtown. going anywhere else it's car everytime. Our cities are far far to downtown centric.
@@Seagaltalk There's more to public transport in the GTA than the TTC though. I make use of GO frequently, which is pretty good and reliable.
The answer of course is to improve on transit and start funding it properly, not abandon it.
Great information, concisely stated. Thank you!
Based on our experience with Metrolinx the provincially owned contractor the Ontario Line will be many years late and billions over budget.
In the city where I live in Europe...
...I have to say Toronto is doing quite well.
It's gonna be amazing when the Ontario Line is completed and officially opens! The southern terminus, Exhibition Station, will provide Union Station with some competition.
Hate to say it but we'll probably be long gone by the time it's done.
Completion date is when? Oh yeah, I forgot!
Nice! Would like to see you make more videos!
That will be a really nice build, and right over that tired and grim Exhibition GO platform. Perfect.
Ontario line will be completed in 2045 if we have the LRT to go by 😮
Maybe they’ve learned their lesson from the ECLRT but one can only hope
@ the government doesn’t have a good track record. Hope is not a good strategy to have
So where is it you do your standup routine?
0:52 is where the actual topic starts
Great aerial imagery! Would just invest on a microphone now and you're poised to grow!
Thanks for the feedback :)
i wish they would have built this further east so it could serve more go lines than just LE. something akin to martin reese's cityplace station idea.
So science Centre will move from one end of Ontario Line to the other.
How do you explain that overhead pedestrian bridge ? It will be removed to build the canopy over the tracks. How will Metrolinx cover huge surges during sporting events
at the CNE if they can't already with the existing underpass tunnels. They had ample
time and space to widen the tunnels, or build a second tunnel. I think that the building
of that pedestrian bridge was a criminal waste of taxpayer money. Can you explain it ?
Aarre Peltomaa of Mississauga, Ontario
Are you referring to the temporary pedestrian bridge? I'm not a Metrolinx insider but according to them "The bridge is designed to help reduce congestion in the existing tunnel during special events at Exhibition Place and Ontario Place." You raise a good point though, I think generally our city and country are not proactive but reactive with infrastructure. We should have had much more infrastructure in place before our population surged over the last decade.
www.metrolinx.com/en/discover/exciting-early-work-underway-at-exhibition-station
And even worse, it's not even accessible.
I asked one of the service people there when I was coming back from the CNE this past August, and they told me that it was temporary. My response was "Temporary? Yeah, right, it'll be here for 20 years."
2 million people. In sprawl. "It's a pretty big city" excuse me while I LOL
moss park they're gonna have to lock that station at night
Nope the area will suffer from gentrification.
hmm Do you live in this area? The traffic is already at a breaking point and the idea of hundreds of dump trucks a day soon in the area will make it worse. I live on Close and Springhurst at times for hours our street is full of non-moving traffic and if you live in the building forget about getting home some days, one has to park a few blocks away and park and then theres Gord Perks who only answer was to any of this "its the price we pay for the future"
Metrolinks the most corrupt of organizations should float the ide of maybe putting the waste onto a barge as the water is nearby and then putting it somewhere it was done when the subway and grenadier pond were dug out.
The city is as backwards as it gets and did not think of the future of its population until it was too late,
It won't revolutionize anything
yeah and this station will be done in 2060? lmao