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Originally Posted by Sheba
Also: This planning work is being conducted under Phase Two of the Mayors’ Council’s 10-year plan, which includes designing future upgrades for Edmonds Station and Stadium-Chinatown Station.
Edmonds has been pushed back enough times that I've gotten to 'I'll believe it when I see it'. I think they were talking about a ramp to the south side of the station 20 years ago.
I'll agree with the first part of your comment. Sure Columbia Street could do with some work but they've been paying attention to that over by New West Station instead. Hopefully when the latest towers are finished they'll start making their way along the street. Up the hill from Columbia Station up to Royal is a mix of low rises and towers.
If there's room for it - but is there? Looking at is as a reno of what's there, it needs:
* a rebuild of both the 4th Street and Clarkson entrances
* an up escalator (it's missing on the outbound platform) - down escalators would be a bonus
* new elevators
* replace the mesh screens with glass on the outboard platform side
* add some kind of roof over the platform / tracks
* all new lighting
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Columbia Station is pretty awful, and if they want to make it better they might need to move the entire station a few meters away from the switch that always has problems. Last year there was also flooding in that tunnel.
Ideally, they would be able to redesign it so that it has three platforms that operate in a spanish solution, but we might be stuck with what's there.
Basically normal operations are like before, but the inbound trains switch tracks before Columbia so that they don't need to navigate the switch after Columbia, and then switch onto the production way portion without having to obstruct trains arriving at Columbia from the Skybridge.
Or even just building an entirely new station. Track and all.
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