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Originally Posted by hfx_chris
They have to back out of the bays? That's horrible...
By far the coolest bus terminal I've ever seen is the Eglinton bus terminal in Toronto. Well, that is before they tore it down.
It had these surface level bus lanes each with its own platform and shelter on 3 sides (plus roof) and two staircases at each end descending down to the passenger waiting area underneath (which was of course connected to the Eglinton subway station). The bus would enter its lane and stop at the unloading area where passengers would get off and walk down a flight of stairs to the waiting area below. Then the bus would move ahead to the boarding area (the platform was divided by a fence) at which point a light would turn on downstairs to indicate the bus was at the platform, then passengers would go through the doors and up the other set of stairs to the boarding section of the platform. You couldn't enter the platform from outside, you had to go through the terminal and up the stairs to get to the platforms.
Retro? Yes. Cool? Yes. Impractical? Hell yes.
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AHHH yes, Eglinton station,
I grew up within a stones trow from there,
and spent much of my miss spent youth in the subway section,
on my way to the nightlife of downtown.
Many times I used the bus section though, going to friends houses.
And yes, your right, you couldn't enter the platforms from the surface,
as they always had security monitoring the platforms by way of camera.....
I only heard of one guy who ever made it....never tried it my self..always had tickets...
Ohhh and across the street, there was a Chinese bakery that would sell 60 onces of American vodka to kids as young as 12....and American smokes too
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that part of the transit plan was for more jump lanes, not sure where exactly but I did read about it.
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