Transportfan
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Gotta love "Bloor Station"...that really lets you know where you are...here's a hint: You're on Bloor somewhere...
...at Yonge Street. Obvious.
Gotta love "Bloor Station"...that really lets you know where you are...here's a hint: You're on Bloor somewhere...
I'm sorry? You exactly make my point:...at Yonge Street. Obvious.
TTC subway gets uploaded to the province is the subject to Metrolinx station naming convention. Then all subway stations get renamed to terrible names.
Gotta love "Bloor Station"...that really lets you know where you are...here's a hint: You're on Bloor somewhere...
Context is everything! It was in answer to:
They couldn't even hire local consultants to do it...I still cant believe Metrolinx actually paid consultants for this sh*t. I would've come up with much better names in exchange for a cup of coffee.
I'm sure it's an infinitesimally small part of the provincial government, but when people get riled up abut government waste, the is why.
It is fine when it is easily distinguished neighbourhoods like Leaside.Exactly why I think the cross-street naming convention when to lines intersect is appealing (Bloor-Yonge for example). The idea of naming stations/stops after neighbourhoods has appeal to people in the community but I would say isn't generally how most people navigate places.
The problem is that easily distinguished neighboroughhoods tend to be larger and can contain for than 1 stop. Is it Leslie, Laird, or Bayview.?They couldn't even hire local consultants to do it...
It is fine when it is easily distinguished neighbourhoods like Leaside.
The problem is when you pay a foreign consultant and they get the location of Leaside wrong.
It is clearly Laird.The problem is that easily distinguished neighboroughhoods tend to be larger and can contain for than 1 stop. Is it Leslie, Laird, or Bayview.?
The idea of naming stations/stops after neighbourhoods has appeal to people in the community but I would say isn't generally how most people navigate places.
I second that. For example, I know roughly where Cedervale is generally BUT living in Scarborough all my life I don't know it well enough to know where the stop is. If they had called it Allen (The cross street) I would know where it is.
I've lived in the Cedarvale area most my life and I didnt even know what the hell it was. Everyone I know just calls it Eglinton West. Same thing for Keelesdale and whatever the heck they decided to name the station on Dufferin. It almost feels like they're imposing these names on us, because I've never seen them used in real life.
(Or more likely, some overpaid consultant saw "Cerdervale" on a Google Map, and decided to call the station that)
One idea that's crossed my mind several times is where a station has the cross-street as the primary name, with a local neighbourhood or landmark as secondary. For example St Andrew Station would be King West, St Andrew. Whether that is used merely in signage or also as an announcement at each stop is up for debate.
Just about perfect. The dominant labeling as Bay makes clear where the station is while the sub-heading name refers to a locale.This has been done before. Bay Station was and is labeled BAY - Yorkville as seen in the attached image from Wikipedia. Bay is the cross-street while Yorkville was the neighbourhood. I believe this was done in response to the interlining experiment wherein they wanted to replicate the naming system along university .View attachment 165957