King-Victoria Transit Hub

[danbrotherston]

Office space too risky atm? Perhaps they could have considered a small supermarket, especially convenient from commuters (eg. ReweCity, TescoExpress). Most reasonably sized rail-stations in Europe have a supermarket, and although most things in Europe are not open 24/7, the central-station supermarkets often are.

Madrid Atocha has amazing plant features inside the main hallway. What will ours have, a TimHortons to-go? :/

The region is not going to run a supermarket, nor should they. And to date, no supermarket chain has yet committed to putting an urban supermarket in DTK, and I don't see why the station would changes things substantially in the near term.

As for Madrid Atocha, they have some 300,000 passengers per day. Do you really think that's comparable to what Kitchener will be?

Nor do any (well, not most) of the city governments in Europe, nor for that matter does Cadillac Fairview, that does not mean that these groups are not the landlords for supermarkets, this is not unusual, even here.

As for whether it is comparable, I'm sure it's different but commercial was part of the original plan, a private developer is apparently unwilling (although given that we've jacked up the price, maybe they would be), that doesn't meant that we shouldn't be.

Now, I know you were upset by the "worst project ever" statement, and I completely agree, things like the 401 widening are orders of magnitude worse. But I do think there are legitimate problems with this project as planned right now, not least of which, the utterly massive unjustified cost.