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Victoria Park Station Re-Design

There is a report up on the TTC’s site showing the plans for renovation of Victoria Park Station. Note that this is a roughly 3.5MB document.

For those of you looking at the URL linked here, yes there is a spelling mistake in the TTC’s filename with “Vcitoria” Park station and terminal “Finsihes”. If they fix this, the link may break, and you will have to go to the general report site to get the document.

7 thoughts on “Victoria Park Station Re-Design”

  1. Ooooooo….A green roof? I like it! It’s nice to see our government committed to green building and sustainble infrastructure development. I guess that even the TTC has to conform to the Green Development Standard. I hope to see more of the same in the coming years.

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  2. The fact that they let mistakes like “Vcitoria” and “Finsihes” get out tells you everything you need to know about the TTC’s attitude towards detail, presentation, and aesthetics.

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  3. According to a different report (or set of), Pape is probably also going to recieve a green roof as part of its revitalization, although it’s structure is a lot smaller than Victoria Park’s.

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  4. Can’t wait for Vic Park to be modernized. The Green roof is a bonus, what really impresses me is the design of the new bus bays. Glad they are getting rid of the old bus bays where you have to walk up a flight of stairs to catch a bus. Think the convenience of the new station design might help increase ridership and the green roof is just another bonus on top of increased ridership that is good for the environment.

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  5. This is certainly a big improvement, a very welcome reduction in concrete, some of the design themes do really shine, even on some of the smaller details like the canopies and multicultural garden.

    I have to say though that the TTC is throwing away an opportunity to make transfers relatively seemless in at least one direction, in this case with the eastbound platform, and have the bus platforms at the same level as the subway platform. Looking at the site, the opportunity definately seems to have been right in front of them for the eastbound platform.

    The only station that thought about this in their renovations so far is Union Station, which will have stairless access from a Yonge-bound train to the streetcar loop. Worthy of praise, but a specific functionality angle of the system that isn’t treated with the sensitivity it deserves considering the degree to which it harms its competitiveness with car is sadly overlooked. Still, big improvement.

    Steve: The reason that the bus loop is at street level, not at track level, is that there are plans to build above the loop. This is part of a larger plan for the TTC to exploit the value of its comparatively empty real estate at subway stations. With the buses at track level, this would be extremely difficult to achieve.

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  6. It looks like they’re actually not set on destroying the tiles on the platform, the most important heritage element of the line on which it is located (in addition to some of the exteriors). Now if they could do the same thing at Pape and Dufferin stations while still modernizing and improving, it would be great.

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  7. Any idea when Warden Station might get a makeover? If plans for Islington and Victoria Park go ahead, Warden will be the only station in the entire network with a slot terminal. Obviously this is an impediment for any accessibility in the station.

    Steve: There is a major plan for rebuilding Warden Station, but it is not as advanced as Islington or Victoria Park. In brief, the parking lot moves up onto the hydro lands east of the station, the bus terminal becomes an island platform roughly where the south parking lot is today (accessed via a bridge at roughly the level of the existing mezzanine), and the land on the two eastern corners of Warden and St. Clair are sold for new development.

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