officedweller
Senior Member
wow, even by TTC standards, the quality of this reno is unbelievably poor.
Yeah, the tile with the "N" is upside-down - an installation mistake rather than a design mistake.
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TTC: Dufferin Station Modernization (TTC, U/C)
- Thread starter West End Boy
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Yeah, the tile with the "N" is upside-down - an installation mistake rather than a design mistake.
snyberTO
New Member
Also, the "U" is slightly thinner and there's a misalignment issue with second "F" as it crosses the grout - not to mention that that the top stroke of the "F" extends too far onto the next tile. It's a Sloppy mess. Why don't they continue to sandblast the text? It's a simpler process and less likely to get messed up.
Not a fan of the mismatched close-out tile-sale colour scheme either.
k10ery
Senior Member
Johnny Au
Senior Member
I strongly prefer the 1966 design of Dufferin station rather than the amateurish "fixing what isn't broken" "renovation".
W. K. Lis
Superstar
The "N" tile is just upside down. The contractor should be able to fix it using the same tile by turning it the correct way.
Or get "Holmes Makes It Right" to do an hour show on correcting it. More like five minutes.
EnviroTO
Senior Member
Yes, but fixing the line thickness issues with the various characters would be an issue. Some letters are noticeably thicker than they should be making the "U" look really out of place.
Just posted a tweet showing the old and new photos side by side (or one on top of the other technically). Really illustrates how sloppy the new one is:
https://twitter.com/JAndrewJ86/status/296098847099334658
https://twitter.com/JAndrewJ86/status/296098847099334658
drum118
Superstar
The east end of both platforms are now exposed.
The new collector booth is moving to the centre some what, with a small area on the south side of it for the exit.
Dufferin has been fix for the N.
Here a video of that area.
[video=youtube;69gWEP4lwO0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69gWEP4lwO0[/video]
The new collector booth is moving to the centre some what, with a small area on the south side of it for the exit.
Dufferin has been fix for the N.
Here a video of that area.
[video=youtube;69gWEP4lwO0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69gWEP4lwO0[/video]
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adHominem
Senior Member
Definitely more successful than the Pape reno. I actually really like the multi-coloured tiles (although I do wish they had gone with the traditional rectilinear shape, rather than square, which feels much more washroom-y to me). The metal tiles are a neat idea, although in practice, they just look like some of the ceramic tiles are missing, until you get close enough to see what's what.
nrb
Active Member
The vertical lines of the letters should also never have a grout line running through them, like it does here on the F and the R. It looks terrible.
car4041
Active Member
They always have on this line - see the T below.
It's not the same -- in St. George, and all the original stations, the letters are sandblasted into the tiles and then painted; the paint covers the grout lines that run through the letters.
On the new tiles at Dufferin, the letters are pre-printed on the tiles and the grout lines that run through the letters are left uncoloured.
nfitz
Superstar
Dufferin isn't finished yet. Presumably they'll add a bit of paint to the grout if it really shows - though it's not like the grout is white. In the meantime, they won't have to spend as much time repainting the signs.
Don't see the big deal ...
car4041
Active Member
It just adds to the awful-ness of the lettering. I like the rest of the reno, but the typography of the station name is horrible: the font weight is too thick, the letterspacing is too tight, the U doesn't match the other letters, the tiles don't always line up well, and the grout lines break up the letters.
They seem to have gotten the typography of the station name right in the Pape reno, and on the new temporary signs at York Mills, so I don't think it's too much to expect at Dufferin, either...
Molybdenum
Active Member
It's a shame they haven't done anything with the floor of the station, especially the "gutter" where the grungy old floor slopes up to meet the bottom of the shiny new tiles.