11-25-2022, 05:38 PM
It's an assumption but you raise a good point.
I would hope it would be open the majority of any given day, maybe closing when all city buses are finished the same way Charles Street Terminal would close. Spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a train station to only open the doors when a VIA or GO train come in or depart would be crazy. It's supposed to be a multimodal station so I would expect bus and LRT users to use it as well...which is one reason why I think some small retail inside makes sense. Just somewhere to buy a sandwich, coffee, newspaper, charge your phone while you sit around eating it, to get out of the rain or cold and to use the washroom. Otherwise why the hell do we even need to spend so much money on this thing?
I would hope it would be open the majority of any given day, maybe closing when all city buses are finished the same way Charles Street Terminal would close. Spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a train station to only open the doors when a VIA or GO train come in or depart would be crazy. It's supposed to be a multimodal station so I would expect bus and LRT users to use it as well...which is one reason why I think some small retail inside makes sense. Just somewhere to buy a sandwich, coffee, newspaper, charge your phone while you sit around eating it, to get out of the rain or cold and to use the washroom. Otherwise why the hell do we even need to spend so much money on this thing?