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Today, we’re on the west side of the city, and we’re at Kipling station to give you
guys an overview of the construction here at this station. Kipling is the western most
station on the TTC subway system, and that means it is a prime location for a regional
transit hub with multiple modes of transit including the subway, regional buses, and
the Milton GO Line.
This construction project at Kipling aims to better connect all the current modes of
transit, as well as creating a new regional bus terminal that will serve GO and MiWay
buses on the west side of the network, removing the latter from neighbouring Islington Station.
Let’s head down there to take a look!
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Exiting the station through its west end exit and walking down the path beside Aukland Road,
we get a clear view of the vast construction site just to our left. Most of the site for
construction is the original north parking lot of the station, as well as the old passenger
pick up & drop off area and entrance building near the lot, so as of right now there is
no parking at the north lot of the station, and a temporary kiss and ride area has been
put in place at the north end of the lot.
This part of the lot is currently used to facilitate the construction of the bus terminal,
and after that is finished, a new and improved parking lot and kiss and ride area will be
put in place here, and instead of accessing the lot from Aukland Road here, commuters
will instead be using a newly extended Acorn Avenue at the middle of the lot for access.
And of course, lots of green space will be added surrounding the parking lot, so it’ll
look much greener and livelier than the current drabby and grey construction site.
Alright, let’s head down to the GO platform and take a look at construction on that end
of the lot.
Kipling GO station serves the Milton Line during weekday peak hours, and right now the
western end of its platform is out of service due to the construction here.
And as we walk further down the platform, we can finally get a close look at the bus
terminal under construction. The frame of the pedestrian bridge connection to the GO
platform has been installed, and construction is steadily ongoing to finish construction
of the frame of the bus terminal building, as well as finishing the exterior of the pedestrian
bridge, and establish accessibility options here.
In addition, there’ll also be a pedestrian tunnel connecting the bus terminal to the TTC station.
A better look at the construction site can be had at 5343 and 5353 Dundas Street West,
the buildings at the northwest end of the station with a balcony overlooking the bus
terminal and pedestrian bridge.
Overall, progress has been ongoing here at Kipling station, and we can already see a
rough shape of this future intermodal and inter regional transit hub.
While the official timeline for completion was set to be in 2019, unfortunately it doesn’t
seem to be feasible given that we’re in the last few months of the year. We do hope
that this transit hub will be completed soon, and we’ll surely be back in the future to
update you guys on the construction progress here at Kipling.
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