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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture
[I][/what is the point of these renovations? it seems pointless to me really since they aren't making the platforms longer. so many other systems have stations many years older that haven't been renovated. this just seems like a pointless waste of money to me.
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They're renovating the stations with the highest passenger volumes to provide more capacity to get people in and out of the stations. In most cases these involve additional entrances, such as the east station house at Main Street and Joyce stations. At Broadway they're adding an additional platform.
But I do agree that if they're going to spend money on renovation then it would make a lot more sense to extend the platform as well, as a first step towards a system-wide project to extend all platforms in order to be able to handle longer trains.
Main Street seems particularly egregious to me because the new station is longer but it seems like they carelessly plopped an escalator right into the space where the platform needs to be, a design that can't easily be remedied. Putting the escalator in the centre of the platform instead of at the edge beside the tracks seems like it would have made so much more sense.
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