Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

[danbrotherston]

Those train stations in Germany will have lots of arriving and departing trains. At best, we'll have a GO once an hour. So, indoor shopping makes far less sense than outdoor, in our case.

Round Table (coffee), Dispensary (coffee) -- and Smile Tiger Coffee just N of the current station, at Ahrens St. And this is before some opens up in the Station Park complex. So, coffee in particular isn't in critically short supply.

We'll also have ION LRT trams every 10 minutes and several busses that often, too, so more than what the Charles St terminal had, and Transfers was pretty well used.

The Region likes to bill itself as a forward looking community, but in reality they are timid, unwilling, and sometimes even hostile to anything that s not CarCulture™.

It is?

Charles Terminal had express buses plus way way more bus routes. I'm fairly certain Charles Terminal had far far more transit vehicle movements than the new station ever will have...and that's also reflected in the station capacity.

In any case, Tom is right, that only supports the idea that retail should be located on the outside...which is absolutely a given--malls die downtown.