Adjei
Senior Member
This city is so afraid of change it's not even funny.
The lines aren’t being renamed officially, just given a standard number to clear up the confusion that occurs with routes typically referred to in several ways — for example Yonge, YUS and Spadina.
“We’re not getting rid of the names we’ve used historically,” Upfold said, explaining that the TTC anticipates riders will start to key in on just a single number and colour per line.
The LRT lines should be a different shape like triangles to differentiate between them and actual subways.
After reading people's comments on the re-design, it seems like people believe that the new signs were so expensive that they could've paid for a new subway.
You have comments like: "Why spend money on this when we could've spent that money to build the blah subway". I don't understand why there is an impression that these signs cost an astronomical amount.
I don't think transit users care whether it's a 3rd rail vehicle or pantograph, they just want to know how to get where they need to go.
On the subway this morning I noticed that the in-car announcements now start with "Line 1 - Yonge University Spadina". Assume this is the start of a transition period to just the line numbers.
After reading people's comments on the re-design, it seems like people believe that the new signs were so expensive that they could've paid for a new subway.
You have comments like: "Why spend money on this when we could've spent that money to build the blah subway". I don't understand why there is an impression that these signs cost an astronomical amount.
I guess we'll be able to take the Finch West subway soon.
The TC lines could also be thinner on the map than the subway lines.
Not to mention, many if not most signs need to be redone when the Spadina extension opens. A destination of "Downsview" or an incomplete map isn't going to cut it.
The perfect time to redo signs is when 50% need to be redone anyway. It's reasonable to perform a 1 year test on a new style first.
Right. The map should show the preferred way to traverse a given section of the city. It's probably worth differentiating for frequency of service to indicate wait time but the actual mechanism doesn't matter a whole lot.