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May 26, 2006
Infrastructure
Subway platform expansion
Toronto’s Union Station gets a second platform
TORONTO
Billed as the first step in Toronto’s waterfront revitalization plans, the groundbreaking ceremony for the $89.3 million Union Station subway transit platform expansion was held Wednesday.
The project will add a second platform to increase passenger capacity from the current 75,000 daily to 110,000.
It will separate the now joined Yonge St. and University Ave. lines and consolidate the fare payment area. Also the pedestrian bypass and connections to the railway station will be expanded.
The $4 million contract to relocate the sewer main to where the second subway platform will be built has been awarded to Clearway Construction Inc. The contract is slated for completion in August 2007. The detailed design is set for completion in August 2008, and the new station platform is expected to be operational in 2011.
TORONTO WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
A proposed rendering of what the new Union Station subway platform will look like when it’s ready in 2011.
Union subway station currently has only one passenger platform to serve both north and southbound passengers. It was built in 1954 when the station accommodated 25,000 passengers per day.
Now more than 75,000 people use the station on a daily basis.
The new station platform is one of the first projects identified as key to the revitalization of the waterfront, Leslie Woo, senior advisor on waterfront revitalization for Mayor David Miller, told Daily Commercial News. The city will kick in $40 million, the provincial government $30 million while the federal government shells out the remaining $19.3 million for the station.
The expansion will address current overcrowding and safety concerns as well as accommodate the increased numbers of passengers who live and work in the West Don Lands, East Bayfront and the Port Lands.
During construction, the subway will remain open with construction taking place between 7:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
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