Richard White
Senior Member
It would have been nice if part of the rebuild was improving the Queens Quay streetcar loading at Union. I remember trying to see the giant yellow duck (I know, wth?) and getting crushed in the crowds waiting to embark the streetcar. Why not have the streetcar run straight into the lower concourse instead of the twisting bunker it’s in now?
It’s as if we cloned the DC’s bunker-like streetcar loop http://wikimapia.org/26706238/Dupont-streetcar-underground-station-closed
It is much better now than it was before. I used to take the 509 to work at Exhibition Place when it was still a tunnel with an escalator and stairs up to the mezzanine level smelling like the lake. Back then you had lines snaking out across the mezzanine but now you have a controlled area on the subway platform.
What gets me is that they never use the glass doors to close off the streetcar loop like they designed them to (they only use metal crash gates).