To be fair.. the entire Sheppard line still looks unfinished with its concrete walls.
Agreed!
I've spent my share of time expressing my displeasure at the trackside concrete walls on the TYSSE a year back.
I don't wish to be repetitive, but I actually had a reason to be up at York U last week and so egressed at Pioneer Village and when returning from the far reaches of the hinterlands, re-boarded at York U station.
In looking at both in greater detail and in seeing all the stations up to that point.............
I am once again deeply annoyed by the over abundance of concrete and the trackside walls in particular.
At the platform level many of these stations are all but indistinguishable from one another, particularly from inside a train.
Between that, and being cold, monotonous and frankly veering far too close to ugly (at the platform levels); I struggle to imagine how this decision made it past the drawing board. At the bare minimum, they should have dyed the concrete in different colours to suit each station.
Though I would vote strongly for better quality finishes on the trackside walls all together.
Additional observations, I like the Cor-Ten Steel at PV far more than I thought I would and am particularly impressed by its use at the overbuilt TTC bus terminal.
The use of red as a contrast colour at PV really works well at the surface level as well. The lower levels, which are largely red-free would have benefited greatly from that pop of colour.
York U has pretty good traffic levels, suprised the retail isn't occupied. Don't like the choice to have one escalator to each entry point.
Finally, the entire TYSSE, best I can figure, doesn't have any of the one-stop screens. Instead, Transit Information Screens dominate, which are ad-free, continuously offer the time, and the next three train times.
I like this, I also like they ar emuch more frequent, so you've always gone one in readable distance. Let's ditch one-stop at go this route everywhere.
