Original Vitrolite station tiles

[kotsy]

They should just leave one or two like that, sans ads, like framed artwork. Similar to how Union Square preserved bits of the original fittings when they renovated it. http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/permane...cy=n&line=Q&station=5&artist=1&img=1&xdev=360

Thank you for giving me yet anther reason to love NYC lol

 

[Johnny Au]

Toronto should adopt NYC's practice of having station names be in mosaic (and it could be arranged in the Toronto Subway Font to make it much more unique).

 

[ottbike]

Now all you have to do is remove the rest of that disgusting yellow tile!

Glass has been put up. I think the ads will go in soon.


Window into the past by Adrian Badaraco, on Flickr

 

[APTA-2048]

Just another quick Photoshop. Wish they used the original colour pattern at York Mills instead of mimicking the original Yonge Line. Not really a big deal though.

 

[Amare]

Good god, are they planning on butchering the entire Yonge line with the new wall panels? As if Osgoode wasnt enough for them

 

[salsa]

Good god, are they planning on butchering the entire Yonge line with the new wall panels? As if Osgoode wasnt enough for them

I don't think so. Where did you get that impression?

 

[salsa]

Osgoode station, old vs new:

 

[salsa]

What is this thing doing here? is it temporary?

 

[TheTigerMaster]

If my memory serves me correctly, that signal has been there at least for several years. Could have been there longer, I just noticed it several years ago.

I'm curious about why is it there. Does the signal block only travel halfway through Osgoode Station?

Edit: Might have been at another station actually. But I do recall seeing a mid-station signal somewhere on University Line south of St. George.

 

[Towered]

Why not yellow????

 

[ottbike]

This may have been posted earlier in the thread, but the next stations to be re-done are Kipling and Finch

 

[Johnny Au]

If Kipling station were redone, then Kennedy station would be the remaining station that resembles the second version of Union subway station (though Kennedy is orange rather than yellow for Kipling or the second version of Union subway station).

 

[pman]

What is this thing doing here? is it temporary?

That's hilarious and so cluelessly Toronto. It's not just the TTC: the city is littered with thoughtless stuff like this: proliferating and redundant traffic signs that obscure each other, hydro poles in the middle of sidewalks, redundant rusting decommissioned hydro poles that are never removed, overhead wires supported by tree branches, that really strange big concrete block on the sidewalk directly in front of the Bedford entrance of the St. George station... For that matter the Osgoode photo is actually pretty good by Toronto standards: most of the letters of the sign are visible, the panel colour isn't nauseating and the signal appears to be functioning.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

What is this thing doing here? is it temporary?

I would love to borrow that pic in a tweet to the powers that be.

AoD

 

[salsa]

I would love to borrow that pic in a tweet to the powers that be.

AoD

Go right ahead. I'm sure @TTChelps will take care of it!