Showing posts with label Union Station. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Union Station. Show all posts
The TTC stop will be getting a second platform and to do the work Front Street has been slowly ripped apart to expose the underground layers and to relocate existing underground utilities and the entrance between the stations has slowly been reduced. Many thousands of passengers have been crammed together to do the shuffle slow step, squeezed together to go through the doors and into the underground PATH system (especially in winter when so many keep underground). You can tell you are in a train station because even the graffiti is themed to fit in with the rail motif.
The train station work will cost over $600 million and will take until 2015 to fully complete.
The no smoking sign in elevator No 1 which leads to track 3 has been modified to include a train
City People art installation at #Toronto Royal Bank Plaza building. I can't tell if the people were bored or just stand offish - they refused to meet my gaze. The work was placed in 1989 and overlooks Front and Bay Streets and was created by Cambridge, MA artist Catherine Widgery. It is not often that I walk by and the barrier that leads up the steps to the elevated pathway and patio is open, but one day the way was clear and I came up to explore the area. You can also get a nice view of Union Station from the patio.
The people on poles can rotate
