What are you talking about? You can still deck over operational rail corridors & reclaim the space above for public use. Or didn’t you know that? I guess not. A number of cities have done that. Rail Deck Park was to be that.
Deck over a viaduct? Where has that happened? Rail Deck Park was right downtown, and not a viaduct.
The pictures are all of the viaduct that was constructed in the 1920s, outside of downtown, where the existing rail line runs along side Line 3. If you want to discuss the non-elevated mainline west of Union, then it's nowhere near Line 3 and that thread is at https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/rail-deck-park.25731/
Thanks. But no thread needed. I was just making a general visual observation of the CN Tower pic & all those unsightly rail lines downtown.
I don't think any of those photos show the railway tracks downtown. The only one with the CN tower in, is a photo of the elevated Toronto Viaduct, east of downtown. The viaduct was constructed in the 1920s (and being reconstructed now). I don't know how you build a park on top an embankment. At the roof line of the new subway stations?
So again the question arises, where have they been covering 100-year old viaducts? They seem pretty common in most very large urban centres.And I completely disagree with you.
Millennium Park is a deck over a trenched railway corridor, so it doesn't apply to the joint corridor. Plus whilst Millennium Park is kinda nice, Millennium Station is anything but. It's dingy, and literally feels like someone built a train station in a parking lot (because that's what it is).
The corridors can be dingy and ugly. But beautifying them is very far down the list when there's so much work to be done on making GO a true two way all day transit network.
