Why does Toronto pick such horrible names for public spaces, stations, airports etc.?

[SubHuman]

My qualm is that there's so little done to commemorate great Canadians in our street names, which then get used to name parks, squares, and transit stations...

One of the more interestingly-named things I've heard of in the area is a real elementary school in Milton with the fake (stage? ring? "kayfabe"?) name of a professional wrestler from the 1960s and '70s.
Google street view link

 

[christiesplits]

Yet we do have roads named after relative nobodies.

Judy Sgro Ave · North York, ON, Canada

North York, ON, Canada

www.google.com

Though I am glad for it these days as we would probably be naming roads after Tik Tokkers or some other nonsense.

Judy Sgro Avenue got me thinking. When did we start naming streets with full names instead of surnames? If Yonge Street were named today, it would be called George Yonge Street.

 

[afransen]

Judy Sgro Avenue got me thinking. When did we start naming streets with full names instead of surnames? If Yonge Street were named today, it would be called George Yonge Street.

Not a fan of the full name treatment. It is clunky and should be used sparingly for important disambiguation.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Not a fan of the full name treatment. It is clunky and should be used sparingly for important disambiguation.

First there should be a policy of not naming anything after the living; second there need to be a decade long "cooling off" period after death before anyone becomes eligible. Make that period 30 years for politicians.

AoD