Willybru21
Active Member
Here’s something very interesting I just found shuffling through some old CIBC Square documents. The pedestrian flow document from the early 2010’s for the project included this drawing, which showed 2 new proposed teamways, both of which were located east of the Bay East Teamway.
The first one was one on the west side of Yonge Street, that had entrances up to the very most eastern side of the platforms.
The second one was a big central Teamway that would have connected to the Union Station Bus terminal and both CIBC towers:
The (now likely outdated) USEP Package 3 also suggested a full concourse on the east side of Bay Street, which would have likely been quite similar to the proposal here, maybe with more underground interconnectivity between Yonge and Bay Street:
There is still plans to build access to Union Station and the bus terminal from Yonge Street (the CIBC Square documents also suggest a path connection to 1 Yonge, however I’m not sure if that’s still in the plans). But now it will be a bridge overtop the rail corridor. Not pictured here is another connection to the north CIBC tower, which is already pre-built into the bus terminal, only requiring a bridge connection to the planned one over the rail corridor:
Cool stuff seeing what could’ve been built on the east side of Bay Street, hopefully the bridge comes to fruition because direct Yonge Street access to Union Station would be a game changer! If anyone has more info about these teamways or expansions to the east of Bay send them my way!
The first one was one on the west side of Yonge Street, that had entrances up to the very most eastern side of the platforms.
The second one was a big central Teamway that would have connected to the Union Station Bus terminal and both CIBC towers:
The (now likely outdated) USEP Package 3 also suggested a full concourse on the east side of Bay Street, which would have likely been quite similar to the proposal here, maybe with more underground interconnectivity between Yonge and Bay Street:
There is still plans to build access to Union Station and the bus terminal from Yonge Street (the CIBC Square documents also suggest a path connection to 1 Yonge, however I’m not sure if that’s still in the plans). But now it will be a bridge overtop the rail corridor. Not pictured here is another connection to the north CIBC tower, which is already pre-built into the bus terminal, only requiring a bridge connection to the planned one over the rail corridor:
Cool stuff seeing what could’ve been built on the east side of Bay Street, hopefully the bridge comes to fruition because direct Yonge Street access to Union Station would be a game changer! If anyone has more info about these teamways or expansions to the east of Bay send them my way!
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