Foolworm
Active Member
Although I am excited for this station renewal, I wonder if we will ever get to the point where stations are developed as part of a larger mixed use building.
If you mean building a high-rise on top of an at-grade station, forget it.
If it's underground stations, then all the downtown ones are already linked via the pedway system to their surrounding buildings.
I guess the most applicable example would be CN tower, which once sat atop the Via station - now passengers taking the Canadian alight at a shack that doesn't even have bus service.
Personally, I am suspicious of grandiose master-planned areas that purportedly feature transit as their centrepiece. Not only does Edmonton have a dismal record with such projects, it reeks of what I term Development-Oriented Transit (an inversion of TOD).