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Signage at Blue Bovine directing people to CIBC via the Bay Street overpass!

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DSCToronto said:
Signage at Blue Bovine directing people to CIBC via the Bay Street overpass!

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I could complain about Union signage all day, but I can’t believe this sign doesn’t mention:

Front St
Union Station Bus Terminal
(potentially a stretch but still accessible via the new bridge:)
GO Trains

It’s a brand new sign and major destinations people want to go to from this area are missing
 
WB62 said:
I could complain about Union signage all day, but I can’t believe this sign doesn’t mention:

Front St
Union Station Bus Terminal
(potentially a stretch but still accessible via the new bridge:)
GO Trains

It’s a brand new sign and major destinations people want to go to from this area are missing
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It is not really the best way or fastest to go to the bus station that way but I agree it would have been a good idea to note it was possible.
 
DSCToronto said:
It is not really the best way or fastest to go to the bus station that way but I agree it would have been a good idea to note it was possible.
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From this point in the station to the bus terminal it’s a shorter route that would only require one elevator/escalator vs 4 going the current signed, longer route through the station and the arena.
 
WB62 said:
From this point in the station to the bus terminal it’s a shorter route that would only require one elevator/escalator vs 4 going the current signed, longer route through the station and the arena.
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True, if CIBC lets the public walk through on upper levels. They may want to keep us restricted to the direct east west PATH routes and the north south Teamways.
 
DSCToronto said:
True, if CIBC lets the public walk through on upper levels. They may want to keep us restricted to the direct east west PATH routes and the north south Teamways.
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I mean the route I’m talking about is directly through the PATH and Bay East Teamway, the bridge wouldn’t exist if CIBC didn’t want a PATH connection there
 
DSCToronto said:
It is not really the best way or fastest to go to the bus station that way but I agree it would have been a good idea to note it was possible.
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It’ll be the most natural route for people arriving in the Great Hall.

Walk off the Great Hall towards the bridge, then down an escalator into the teamway towards the bus terminal and you’re there.

Explaining to passengers to walk down an escalator, through the Bay concourse, then find the Scotiabank Arena door, then towards an up escalator is certainly not the best nor fastest way.

The new south concourse will improve this but I still think the Great Hall route is the easiest to explain and the most direct path to anyone arriving at the station to get on a bus.
 
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nightstreak said:
It’ll be the most natural route for people arriving in the Great Hall.

Walk off the Great Hall towards the bridge, then down an escalator into the teamway towards the bus terminal and you’re there.

Explaining to passengers to walk down an escalator, through the Bay concourse, then find the Scotiabank Arena door, then towards an up escalator is certainly not the best nor fastest way.

The new south concourse will improve this but I still think the Great Hall route is the easiest to explain and the most direct path to anyone arriving at the station to get on a bus.
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You make a good case - at least for people walking in from Front Street. Those arriving by subway or train are still probably best going vai Scotia Bank Arena
 
DSCToronto said:
You make a good case - at least for people walking in from Front Street. Those arriving by subway or train are still probably best going vai Scotia Bank Arena
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Oh for sure, no arguments there, I just think there should be more than one signed route.

It’s especially good as an alternative accessible route if the elevator in the scotiabank arena is broken, it recently was for over 2 months
 
WB62 said:
Update on the bay east moat bollards:

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The state of the sidewalk and streetscape around Union is sad to see. Multi billion dollar project, more than a decade in progress and the areas around the station look horrible. You would imagine for such an expensive project we would get granite sidewalks, new street lighting, trees, garbage bins, seating, signage, etc. does any government leader in this city give a crap about public spaces and streetscape anymore?
 
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