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Not 92 I honestly thought at the outset I was reading about the 92 Woodbine South or another Toronto route of that ilk.

Where? Where are you seeing that, adma? Got pix?

Same font as other such entrances That second font is the same one used in transoms at other entrances, including some of the west-end stations, Main Street, and inbound from the bus bay at Castle Frank (where you’ll see a particularly nice ampersand).

Angry and Irrational Passengers of the TTC New group “on the Facebook.”

I was there and I covered it I was there and I covered it (pictures).

TTC staff are trying to secure advance permission to gut, destroy, and remodel any of 63 subway stations in any manner they want. I acknowledge in advance that not all of you will view this as a bad thing. But I expect quite a few of you will.

Not strictly accurate That is not strictly accurate. The subway stop-announcement ruling stated that TTC must train its staff on: http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onhrt/doc/2005/2005hrto20/2005hrto20.html The exact wording was given by example, not imposed.

Wyliepoon, where did you find that illustration?

$432,000 The Devlin contract was actually for $432,000. They were the only “qualified†bidder.

“Control area� I don’t have a clue what that means. Noncommercial photography is permitted. You don’t have to wait for anything, let alone permission.

Hetero vs. homo Clarify this for us: Are you talking about the heterogeneous YUS line or the homogeneous Bloor, Sheppard, and Scarborough lines? Badly. The tracking is wrong and they’re installed at the wrong height. Tiles have to be replaced every 40 years or so.

...which has lasted for decades and is, whether you like it or not, one of the defining features of the Toronto subway along with its distinctive typography. While that is most clearly evident on the Bloor line, that consistency and distinctiveness really is there even if you disapprove of it...

Gill It’s =48&PREFS_SET[RenderString]=february%2F08"]Gill Sans Ultra Bold (not quite Kayo, though some say they are indistinguishable). Someday the TTC will learn that it isn’t issuing Passes-métro, hence month names are capitalized.

Subject line says it all: Since nobody else was making a public list after I asked the LazyWeb to do it in several places, let’s start here. I wish we had real HTML to use, but forum software is notoriously bad at that. In difficult cases I will use International Phonetic Alphabet, which I’m...

Nobody asked for [John Q.] Public’s opinion Because the YUS line isn’t consistent. Nonexpert opinions are of limited value in this context.

Line colours Nobody can agree on the actual name of the Sheppard line’s colour (“the plum line�), which is a problem. Colour-coding is beloved of wayfinding amateurs, but works if and only if all colours are nameable. You’ve got fewer than ten of those to play with, and...

Liar! Again: False. You can quit repeating this myth.

220c No, it’s Pantone 220C (for coated stock).

Because the Bloor-Danforth subway has a different typology from the Yonge-University-Spadina, Sheppard, and Scarborough subways.

OK, you can stop repeating this urban myth. Word-superiority effect is the dominant hypothesis in psychology of reading and there is no experimental evidence whatsoever that we spend all day selectively attending to half the letters we read.