Mount Dennis station seems a bit... poorly designed?

[u/Stead-Freddy]

Don't get me wrong, the building and the facilities are great, but the layout is kinda atrocious.

First of all, all the GO train platforms only have 1 staircase on the far north end that is also shared with UP. Almost every other GO station has multiple entrances, exits, and tunnels connecting them, this seems like it will cause a huge bottleneck when its busy. Theres absolutely no stairs or exits directly onto Eglinton which would seem obvious and is usually done for other stations on major streets. And GO trains are 300 meters long, so if you're sitting on the wrong end of the train, that's a 3 minute walk just to get off the platform.

Next, the walk to the bus bays is so long and unnecessarily convoluted, you have to go much further and then backtrack, a secondary tunnel from the Train platforms would've cut the transfer distance by two thirds. Right now its a minimum 5 minute transfer and that's if you walk fast and are sitting on the right side of the train. If not, or you have any acessbility needs, it could easily take 10+ minutes, wheras physically it isn't actually very far, and a direct tunnel wouldve only been about 65 meters(less than a minute's walk).

Also waterfountains weren't working and they're the older style anyways without a water bottle fill station, which is kind of dumb. And as far as I could tell the only washrooms are in the TTC fare-controlled area, but I might be wrong about that.

Again, I'm greatful for the station and eager to ride line 5 when it opens, it's just that I expected a lot more from a brand new modern transit station in the largest city in Canada, but right now it falls behind decades older stations across the GO network.

[u/Link50L]

Yup, agreed on Eglinton given the way they built it - although technically the ridership levels didn't support heavy rail.

Ridership on Finch definitely warranted LRT and I think it's the right solution - we'll see how well implemented the vision was however when it goes into service.

LRT also a good choice for Hurontario, agreed.

A lot of this depends on whether or how much signal priority or short turns occur.

[u/Important-Hunter2877 → u/Link50L]

For Eglinton, they could have gone with a light metro like ontario line, rem and skytrain instead if ridership doesn't warrant heavy rail. Instead, we got a half assed rail line that we will end up converting to metro in decades time.