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[DonValleyRainbow]

Well, it would kind of be a shortcut to go from the York Promenade to the York Concourse Ticket Area.

IIRC York Promenade is level with the upper concourse. I remember having a fit when I realized it, makes it asymmetrical with the Bay side.

 

[Leo_Chan]

IIRC York Promenade is level with the upper concourse. I remember having a fit when I realized it, makes it asymmetrical with the Bay side.

Yeah, so York Promenade > Go down Escalator > Union Food Court > Go up Escalator > York Concourse GO Ticket Counter.

 

[Torontovibe]

 

[kotsy]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the moats won't be lined with stores/restaurants.

 

[Richard White]

Gooooooood morning!

Just walking through the York Concourse at 6:23 am and I noticed what appears to be gravel instead of flooring at the north end of the concourse almost directly under Platform 3 on the lower level. Struck me as odd given that the terrazo is everywhere but here.

Also.. the concourse was virtually empty so I took a few pics for posterity.

 

[DSC]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the moats won't be lines with stores/restaurants.

I think there will be some sort of retail/food on north side of the York Moat. The area below the south sidewalk of Front Street is open and - when one could last see it - was being fixed up. (The north side of the Bay Moat is, of course, the TTC station.)

 

[mdrejhon]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the moats won't be lines with stores/restaurants.

York side will be.

 

[Leo_Chan]

York side will be.

Will the moats be AC'd and heated?

 

[Richard White]

Will the moats be AC'd and heated?

Indeed. In the winter the cold weather will cool the area and in the summer the glass roof will cook people like a hard boiled egg.

 

[DSC]

Gooooooood morning!

Just walking through the York Concourse at 6:23 am and I noticed what appears to be gravel instead of flooring at the north end of the concourse almost directly under Platform 3 on the lower level. Struck me as odd given that the terrazo is everywhere but here.

I walked through about noon today and it APPEARS that they are pouring terrazzo on the gravel area your photo shows.

 

[Leo_Chan]

Indeed. In the winter the cold weather will cool the area and in the summer the glass roof will cook people like a hard boiled egg.

So no?

 

[DSC]

So no?

I do not think that was what was said; nor that if it was it is accurate but I guess we will have to wait to find out. My guess is that the moats will be warmer/cooler than the parts inside/below the station building but not as cold/hot as outside.

 

[kotsy]

York side will be.

Decent!
I've seen that rendering many times but for some reason never clicked in as the moat area.

 

[Transportfan]

I do not think that was what was said; nor that if it was it is accurate but I guess we will have to wait to find out. My guess is that the moats will be warmer/cooler than the parts inside/below the station building but not as cold/hot as outside.

Are the moats going to to be partially open to the outside?

 

[Megaton327]

Are the moats going to to be partially open to the outside?

Not the ones that run east-west along the south side of Front St, those will be entirely sealed, I don't think they'll have climate control systems right there but they'll get heat/cooling from the station, hence the middle-of-the-road temperature.

I believe the ones that run north-south on the east side of York south of Front, and the west side of Bay south of Front, will not be entirely sealed and will therefore be around the ambient outside temperature.