Improved Platform Access

We continue to build new stairs and elevators to the train platforms, making your trip to and from your train faster and easier. To accommodate ridership growth, we need as many ways as possible to get between the platforms and the existing and proposed passenger waiting areas in the western sections of Union Station, as well to the covered walkways (called teamways) on both sides of Bay St. and York St. The City of Toronto's construction project at Union Station will prove a new York Street Concourse.

The objective is to provide more access points along each platform that lead to different parts of the surrounding neighbourhood. In the morning, for example, we can get you moving faster from the platform and away from the station in the direction of your choice.

Enclosures for the new stairs and elevators have contemporary designs, but use industrial materials, such as angled steel and flat panels of glass, to complement the original freight elevators at the end of the platforms. This approach will help preserve the heritage of the station while meeting the need for growth.

Because the City of Toronto owns the Union Station building, we are working with the City to create a plan for developing concourse areas and platform access.

Overall Target Completion Date: 2014

STATUS

• We have developed a master plan for construction of new stairwells and elevators.
• Construction has to fit in with work to be done on the train shed roof. Combined construction will occur between 2009 and 2014.
• Platform renumbering took place in October 2008. The new system and signage is more customer-friendly.