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Toronto Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

Unanimous support.

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Oh gawds. Not one to normally dwell on station naming, but that choice is pretty stupid. So now we can have a royal blue golf cart parked in a golf course bunker as public art then.

AoD
 
Palma said:
Ok so lets see if I am following this correctly. Cross roads will be embedded into the walls of the stations yet the maps will show those stupid proposed names and probably the same names that will be announced when LRT arrives at a stop. Boy talk about confusing people and crazy. The cross road should be the name they announce at the stops and on the maps the wayfinding (proposed stupid names) smaller in brackets on the walls at the stations. Crazy
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The station name will also be embedded in the wall, in a larger font.
There were references to "Just like St Patrick station". So the blame goes all the way back to the people who named the University subway stations.
 
Palma said:
Ok so lets see if I am following this correctly. Cross roads will be embedded into the walls of the stations yet the maps will show those stupid proposed names and probably the same names that will be announced when LRT arrives at a stop. Boy talk about confusing people and crazy. The cross road should be the name they announce at the stops and on the maps the wayfinding (proposed stupid names) smaller in brackets on the walls at the stations. Crazy
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This is atrocious from a wayfinding and user experience design point of view. Some people think that names don't matter, but they can and do.

Posting about it on reddit. Hoping it gains traction, since our media outlets do read the /r/Toronto page.
 
salsa said:
Good grief. How about a Sir John A Nelson Mandella station on one of the Scarborough subway stations. Will that make everyone happy?
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Was that intentional? There's something incredible ironic about combining the names of a colonialist, and a man who fought against the oppression of colonialism.
 
Palma said:
Ok so lets see if I am following this correctly. Cross roads will be embedded into the walls of the stations yet the maps will show those stupid proposed names and probably the same names that will be announced when LRT arrives at a stop. Boy talk about confusing people and crazy. The cross road should be the name they announce at the stops and on the maps the wayfinding (proposed stupid names) smaller in brackets on the walls at the stations. Crazy
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Sure doesn't help anyone that is visually impaired.
 
I'm looking forward to the station naming saga that comes with the Finch West LRT. Maybe Metrolinx and some city councillors (ie: Mammo) can one up some of the ridiculous and atrocious station names that we're now going to see with the Crosstown line.
 
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