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Encyclopedia: Union Station (Toronto) Union Station was puchased by the City from the Toronto Terminals Railway Company (TTR) in August of 2000. Union Station is eight storeys tall and features a massive lobby known as the Great Hall, numerous corridors at the top, and a shooting gallery used by CN police on the seventh floor. Union Station is one of the only large railway stations in North America to use through-train operation. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Union-Station-(Toronto)

Save Union Station - Background Union Station is unique in that it has been protected by the federal government, not the City of Toronto. Because Union Station is not designated under the Ontario Heritage Act, it is unlikely that changes to Union Station would be discussed with the Toronto Preservation Board, unless of course, Council were to direct staff to do so. Will this Culture of compromise and accommodation be applied to Union Station It is this culture of compromise and accommodation that worries me when the subject of Union Station arises. www.saveunionstation.ca /background7.cfm

Transit Toronto - Content: A History of the Original Yonge Subway As Union Station became the hub of a large and growing commuter train network known as GO Transit, the mezzanine level at the TTC's Union station was expanded and reconfigured to handle the additional loads, and even to allow people not taking the TTC to cross through it to the Royal Bank Centre. The first plan to emerge in the early 1980s was a proposal to construct a Downtown Relief line from Pape station on the Bloor-Danforth subway to Union Station. The initial design of the Yonge subway stations were functional, with the walls covered in Vitrolite tiles in a simple design using a different pair of colours for each station. transit.toronto.on.ca /subway/5102.shtml

City of Toronto: Union Station history Union Station was designed in the grand manner of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris by a team of architects composed of the Montreal firm of G.A. Ross and R.H. MacDonald, Hugh Jones of the CPR and John M. Lyle of Toronto. The ground under Union Station was owned by the City of Toronto, which leased it to the Grand Trunk Railway in 1905, then later to the Toronto Terminals Railway Company (jointly owned by Canadian National and Canadian Pacific) to build Union Station. GO established new railway marshalling yards in Toronto's suburbs to handle most of the freight traffic with a terminus at Toronto Union Station. www.city.toronto.on.ca /union_station/history.htm

PrivacyHORIZON - Lessons Learned: The Toronto Union Station Fiasco The moment she blew the whistle, revealing that city bureaucrats had destroyed sensitive records related to the coming privatization of Union Station, it was obvious that Toronto privacy director Rita Reynolds had done more to put her job on the line. One of the judges in Toronto's contest to choose a consortium to renovate and operate Union Station has turned over personal scoring records to an independent judge's review of the deal, more than a month after city officials insisted that the judges' scoring records had all been discarded. The city saga on Union Station has taken another odd twist with the confirmation that documents were stolen last month from the office of the senior Toronto official responsible for freedom of information requests. www.priva-c.com /privacyhorizon/lessonslearned_unionstation.asp

building.cfm?id=80 An exhibit of historical photographs from the City of Toronto Archives depicting the history of Union Station will be on display in the Great Hall. Union Station was built between 1914 and 1927 as a joint construction project by the Canadian Pacific Railway and Grand Trunk Railway (now the Canadian National Railway) to consolidate their rail services into one facility. Union Station is a National Historic Site, designated under the Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act in 1989. www.doorsopen.org /building/building.cfm?id=80

AtCityNetwork.com The International City Network Toronto City Council also approved a public consultation process to be led by Mayor David Miller and Councillors Michael Walker, chair of the Administration Committee, Gerry Altobello, chair of the Planning and Transportation Committee, and Pam McConnell, whose Ward includes Union Station. Rezoning is needed so that more of the existing space within the Union Station building can be used in the restoration and revitalization, to accommodate GO Transit's expansion plans for their Union Station operations, and to ensure those plans are co-ordinated with the overall revitalization. Union Station is a designated National Historic Site of Canada and is protected by a Heritage Easement Agreement between Parks Canada and the City of www.attoronto.com /pages/24

CBC Toronto - Man shot dead in downtown standoff Toronto – Police shot and killed a man Wednesday morning as he held a woman at gunpoint in front of Union Station during the height of the morning rush hour. Police cordoned off the area around Union Station and set up barricades as pedestrians stopped to watch the drama unfold. The hostage-taker appeared agitated and was moving erratically before he was hit in the head with a single shot fired by a member of the Toronto Police Emergency Task Force. toronto.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=to_shooting20040825

Transit Toronto - Content: Toronto's Lost Subway Stations Toronto now has four underground streetcar stations: the streetcar-to-subway interchanges at Union, Spadina and St. Clair West and a streetcar-only underground station beneath Bay Street at Queen's Quay. A connection to the west of St. George Station was easily accomplished, and to complete the wye, tracks were built northeast from a junction just north of Museum Station to a station beneath Bay Station on the Bloor Line, before linking up with the Bloor tracks just west of Yonge Station. The track connecting Museum Station with Yonge Station is used occasionally to transfer equipment from Greenwood Yards to Wilson, and the abandoned Lower Bay Station has provided unexpected benefits in terms of a place for film companies to shoot subway scenes. transit.toronto.on.ca /subway/5006.shtml

Infiltration: Union Station Like many sheltered kids from the suburbs around Toronto, I was given my first taste of the big city's architecture at Union Station. Although Union Station is just a single building in a single location, its network of steam tunnels and mechanical rooms is quite extensive. GO Transit didn't exist when Union Station was constructed, but since it was tentatively introduced to the station in 1967, GO's commuter train service has gradually become the primary function of Union Station. www.infiltration.org /union.htm

CBC Toronto - City settles Union Station dispute Toronto – A deal to renovate Union Station is back on the rails after city council settled a dispute Thursday with the consortium that's contracted to lead the project. Union Pearson had estimated those costs could hit $15 million, and threatened to walk away from the contract if the city didn't cover them. But an unexpected delay for approval of the proposal led to maintenance costs that neither Union Pearson nor the city were prepared to assume. toronto.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=to_union20040521

Transit Toronto - Content: Toronto's Union Station A number of Toronto's citizens understandably objected to the demolition of the beautiful Union Station structure, and in acknowledgement of this, some plans had called for the retention of the Great Hall, while others for the retention of entire structure to be used as a shopping concourse. Toronto's current Union Station is actually the city's third such station, and only one of a multitude of railway stations which were built between Parliament and Bathurst Streets along Toronto's waterfront. Toronto's current Union Station is the longest-lived incarnation of the three Union Stations that have graced Toronto since 1855. www.transittoronto.org /gotransit/2302.shtml

Welcome to Toronto! Toronto City Guide & Information Toronto is the home of four professional sports teams and the third largest English-speaking theatre district in the world, behind New York and London. Toronto introduces the 647 area code in March 2001 and will require local 10-digit dialing for all telephone calls within the Toronto area. Toronto is a clean, safe, cosmopolitan city with a wonderful network of parks, recreational, and cultural facilities. www.math.toronto.edu /toronto

Union Station Quick Facts Home to the GO Transit concourse, linking the Toronto Transit Commission’s city subway and bus network, and VIA Rail’s intercity trains, Union Station has become the busiest travel centre in the country. It is used seven days a week and will eventually be connected to Union Station through a new stairway and elevator to one of the train platforms. In order to deal with the volume of people coming through Union Station, it was important that the space be improved to accommodate foot traffic. www.gotransit.com /public/aboutgo/unionfct.htm

Toronto transportation GO Transit operates rail services from Union Station to suburban destinations to the east and west, as well as GO buses throughout the Greater Toronto Area. The main terminus for all of these companies is the Metro Toronto Coach Terminal The city's main bus station handles coaches arriving from destinations across the province, country and the U.S. Taxis are readily available at the station. Toronto is laid out on an easy-to-follow grid system, with a few notable exceptions, such as the Don Valley Parkway, snaking along the ravine east of the city centre. www.bedandbreakfasttoronto.ca /Tourism/Tourism5

Urban Transport Technology - Toronto Transit Commission In July 2003, Toronto City Council approved a Master Agreement to enter into a lease with the Union Pearson Group for a 100-year term to restore, revitalize and operate Union Station on behalf of the City of Toronto. In recent years, Union Station has taken on added importance in the Metropolitan Toronto area as the terminal for rail commuter services and as a vital link in the Toronto subway system. A part of this major restoration project, Union Pearson Group will also have to incorporate a new air—rail link terminus, as plans were approved in November 2003 for a new rail link between Pearson International Airport and Toronto city. www.urbantransport-technology.com /projects/toronto

Toronto Motorcycle Show - Visitor Information Union Station, Toronto's main rail station, is a block away from the Convention Centre, connected by the weather-protected Skywalk. It connects all parts of Toronto and outlying areas to Union Station, the city's transportation hub. Union Station is accessible from the Centre via the Skywalk, a weather-protected walkway. www.sportsmensshows.com /tms/Visitor/visitorC.htm

A Century of Collecting: Two cyclists who have run into each other, [189-] Union Station was designed by a team of architects composed of the Montreal firm of G. Ross and R. MacDonald, Hugh Jones of the CPR and John M. Lyle of Toronto. Union Station was designated as a National Historic Site of Canada in 1975 and remains a well-used and noted Toronto landmark. Construction on a new Union Station on Front Street in Toronto commenced in 1914. www.archives.gov.on.ca /english/centennial/image47.htm

Save Union Station - HOME Owned by the citizens of Toronto since 2000, Union Station is one of our best and most treasured public heritage buildings. Toronto City Council has signed a 100 year lease of Union Station to the Union Pearson Group. Union Station, built between 1914 and 1927, is as grand a railway terminal as any city could hope for. www.saveunionstation.ca

Union Pearson Group A public information forum about the City of Toronto's plan to restore and revitalize Union Station will be held on Saturday, January 18, 2003. The City of Toronto selected the Union Pearson Group as the preferred proponent to restore, revitalize and operate Union Station in July 2002. Negotiations are ongoing between the City of Toronto and the Union Pearson Group to finalize a proposal that is acceptable in the areas of team composition; a concept design that includes improvements to the transportation facilities; reuse of underutilized components of the existing complex and a heritage strategy; project management; operations; and a business plan. unionpearsongroup.com /html/jan18.htm

UTU: News TORONTO -- At 76 years of age, Union Station is a beauty queen that still stirs deep passion and political emotion, according to a report by Jennifer Lewington that appeared in the Toronto Globe and Mail. The most vociferous critic is former Toronto mayor John Sewell, at the helm of Save Union Station, a citizens group. Union Pearson has released its broad concept: 11,700 square meters of retail and restaurant space, a boutique hotel in the station's west wing and a food court below the VIA Rail concourse to ease the flow of TTC, GO Transit and VIA passengers. www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=5292

CBC News: Toronto hostage-taker had history of domestic violence: reports On Wednesday, Brookes was killed by a police sniper's bullet after taking a woman hostage outside Toronto's Union station. TORONTO - A man who was shot and killed by Toronto police on Wednesday as he held a woman hostage had been convicted of assault-related charges, and had a history of domestic violence, according to reports. Toronto hostage-taker had history of domestic violence: reports www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2004/08/25/hostage_union040825.html

(rshsdepot) Toronto, ON - Union Station Subject : (rshsdepot) Toronto, ON - Union Station "My concern as a citizen is that Union Station is going to be sold for a lot less than its market value," Mr. Tanenbaum shouldn't earn the right to carry through on his vision to bridge the platforms with a giant truss and raise towers above and behind a restored Union Station, the jewel in the crown of the financial district. www.railfan.net /lists/rshsdepot-digest/200207/msg00010.html

FURNYTURE: Union Station: Don't go there! For you other ignoramouses such as myself, Union Station is like the body of a giant Toronto transit spider, the legs being: the double-decker trains which goes all the way to Hamilton in the west and probably just as far east. To top it off, Union Station was built in the days of ugly tile. Let me tell you, things could have gotten nasty in the zoo that is Union Station. furnyture.blogspot.com /2004/09/union-station-dont-go-there.html

National Geographic Travel Guide: Toronto - Toronto Walk: Union Station to City Hall Despite its size, Toronto is remarkably livable, with cohesive neighborhoods, abundant shopping and entertainment, lakeside amusements, green spaces, and world-class museums—which may explain why Hollywood so often casts the city as a scrubbed-up stand-in for the Big Apple. Toronto is Canada’s financial capital, and as far as Anglo-Canada is concerned, its cultural capital too. www.nationalgeographic.com /destinations/Toronto

Key Vote: Union Station Lease That Union Station be leased to the Union Pearson Group for a term of 100 years, to restore, revitalize and operate Union Station on behalf of the City of Toronto Based on an evaluation of proposals by senior city staff in July 2002, Union Pearson was originally selected as the preferred bidder over LP Heritage, a Chicago-based consortium that includes noted architect Rem Koolhaus, and whose members previously completed a redevelopment of New York’s Grand Central Station and Washington’s Union Station. The Union Station leasing scandal was one of the primary examples where backroom dealing took precedence over public interests at City Hall. www.votetoronto.ca /union.html

Transport Minister announces winning proposal for Toronto Air-Rail Link - November 13, 2003 By means of transfers at either Union Station or at the Dundas West/ Bloor Station, travellers on Blue22 will also be able to access most of the City of Toronto through north, east and west subway, commuter rail, bus and taxi connections. TORONTO -- Transport Minister David Collenette today announced that Union Pearson AirLink Group has been selected as the successful respondent to finance, design, construct, operate and maintain the air-rail link connecting Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport and Union Station. At Union Station, it is anticipated that boarding passes will be available for domestic passengers, permitting them to go directly to their departure gate upon arrival at Lester B. Pearson International Airport. www.tc.gc.ca /mediaroom/releases/nat/2003/03-h132e.htm

toronto.com > Profile > Union Station (TTC & GO) GO Transit runs six routes of daily commuter trains out of Union Station, connecting Toronto to outlying cities and suburbs in southwestern Ontario. Union Station is located on the TTC's Yonge-University-Spadina line. A single train leaves Union Station every day at noon (except Saturdays) and follows Highway 11 into central Ontario, calling at stations such as Gravenhurst (Muskoka region), North Bay, Temagami, Swastika and ending in Cochrane. www.toronto.com /profile/149693

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