The Globe and Mail and others are making it seem that Metrolinx has blundered because it’s been discovered that new electric GO trains (due in 2024) are a couple of inches high to fit into the Union Station train shed. Metrolinx confirms that either the roof of the shed will have to be raised a couple of inches, the tracks lowered a couple of inches, or something. No word on whether the trains, presumably still unbuilt, could be altered. But in addition to that, there is fretting that because the train shed, built in 1929, is a heritage building, it might not be possible to correct ceiling space in there. Here is where ordinary people are asking why a train shed is a heritage building? Millions have been spent to update the place, even to installing a glass roof. Heritage?
