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

[TransitBart]

What a bunch of crap. It is hard to believe it's 2016. Why don't we just cut open a goat and read the entrails? Seriously folks. You want to ensure that heaven forbid we overbuild anything like a subway that isn't by the numbers, and we're discussing Chinese numerology and how it influences or may influence ridership?

*no patience here with astrology and other pseudo sciemce*

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Are Torontonians really such a superstitious bunch?

Toronto developers seem to think so.

 

[Palma]

Yet ridership of the line didn't fall when TTC make this information much more visible. Very very few would have known it was Line 4 more than a few years ago.

i still don't know which is line 4 cause like to refer to the lines by the street, yonge, bloor/Danforth, Sheppard, university. The problem is with Spadina as it does not run along that road (other than Spadina and Dupont stops) so cannot refer to it by name

 

[Fred.S]

Toronto developers seem to think so.

Off topic, but I laughed the first time I was in the elevator of the mostly Chinese-owned condo at Lee Centre, and the floor numbers skipped 4, 13, 14, 24, 34, and the last floors above 39 were PH1, PH2, PH3, and PH5. Same with the unit numbers. In my experience, first-generation Asians don't care about these superstitions, it's really just the older ones.

 

[Mind_the_gap]

The problem is with Spadina as it does not run along that road (other than Spadina and Dupont stops) so cannot refer to it by name

I'm glad the TTC stopped referring to it as the "Spadina Line". That was a confusing remnant of the never built Spadina Expwy (Allen Rd), which unless you're familiar with Toronto history, you wouldn't know what it was actually referring to. "University Line" is much more appropriate, as the line serves University Ave, and will soon serve York U.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

I'm glad the TTC stopped referring to it as the "Spadina Line". That was a confusing remnant of the never built Spadina Expwy (Allen Rd), which unless you're familiar with Toronto history, you wouldn't know what it was actually referring to. "University Line" is much more appropriate, as the line serves University Ave, and will soon serve York U.

I'm just realizing it would connect UofT and York U, you are right, "University Line" is more appropriate now.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

We're always forgetting about Ryerson University (Dundas Subway Station and maybe College Subway Station). Must be because some of us older kids remember it as Ryerson Institute of Technology, when it was founded in 1948. It only became a university in 2002.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

We're always forgetting about Ryerson University (Dundas Subway Station and maybe College Subway Station). Must be because some of us older kids remember it as Ryerson Institute of Technology, when it was founded in 1948. It only became a university in 2002.

Yes, but this Ryerson student says that Dundas station is on the Yonge line.

 

[Komiksulo]

Don't forget OCAD U, a mere hop, skip, and jump from St Patrick Station!

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Don't know why they didn't name "St. George" Station after the "University of Toronto", if they named a station after "York University"?

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Don't forget OCAD U, a mere hop, skip, and jump from St Patrick Station!

And George Brown's Casa Loma campus.

 

[TransitBart]

Yes, but this Ryerson student says that Dundas station is on the Yonge line.

I think of it as a community college because it was when I went to post secondary. Of course, the school has grown to have many disciplines outside of the narrow confines of a traditional university and Sheldon Levy has built it into a school with a huge physical presence, and significant financial backing. Maybe I'll have time for a course or two some day.

 

[TransitBart]

Don't know why they didn't name "St. George" Station after the "University of Toronto", if they named a station after "York University"?

Wasn't the time then. Today you'd get a yelp from Scarborough or Mississauga Campus. I like St. George. Lived there a summer at school.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

I think of it as a community college because it was when I went to post secondary. Of course, the school has grown to have many disciplines outside of the narrow confines of a traditional university and Sheldon Levy has built it into a school with a huge physical presence, and significant financial backing. Maybe I'll have time for a course or two some day.

Ryerson today is very different from the Ryerson my dad graduated from in the 90s.

It very much has a university vibe, many programs are well respected (Urban Planning school for instance is among the best in Canada), and I definitely don't feel any shame going here instead of say, UofT.

 

[Palma]

Don't know why they didn't name "St. George" Station after the "University of Toronto", if they named a station after "York University"?

Because this is a more recent thing to name stations after a destination, though i would not consider York university a destination. St george is called that because its the name of the cross street to Bloor which makes sense as do the other stations that are named for the cross streets