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Originally Posted by Kitchissippi
That has always been my preferred alignment, with a station on Richmond at Maplelawn/Denbury Ave. Dominion Station is useless in my opinion as a transit hub because you can't send buses down there. Having a station anchoring the far end of Westboro Village can establish a strong pedestrian corridor along Richmond with a spur at McRae towards Westboro Station. It may cost millions more, but in terms of city building it is a logical and smarter approach.
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I'd go a couple more steps than that.
Rochester Field should be developed as a TOD around the station.
I'd move Westboro Station westwards to Churchill (east side) so that Westboro Station actually lines up with Westboro's main cross street and where the station would have gone were it not designed with an access ramp. Besides making the station more central to Westboro, it would also allow the new station to be built without interfering with the operation of the current station until very late in the conversion process.
The current Westboro Station property could then be incorporated into the redevelopment of the Health Canada property to its north, with its two bridges serving as accesses.
The extra distance between the new Westboro Station and Tunney's Pasture would now permit the addition of a station at Island Park Drive, the last major cross street in the area, and one which would better serve the condo craze in the Island Park-Richmond/Wellington area.
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The city really botched up the estimates for this option, I almost think they were trying to sabotage it by putting a significantly higher cost to it.
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It does seem that way.