PL1
Senior Member
Most important line for us transit enthusiasts: "Designing transit maps is always about compromises"
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TTC Cartography, Signage, and Wayfinding
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kotsy
Senior Member
Love the question in the video if he would be at Line 5 opening day signing maps.
"“Every time we put out a new map, I am looking on the forums. I’m looking on Reddit,”"
Hi Alex! I'd buy a signed map from your booth.
"“Every time we put out a new map, I am looking on the forums. I’m looking on Reddit,”"
Hi Alex! I'd buy a signed map from your booth.
Richard White
Senior Member
*Inserts Watermark.*
txlseries4
Active Member
CBC Radio Metro Morning segment from yesterday with him as well:
suspenderpianoman
New Member
New poster-sized maps waiting for Sunday's installation visible in the collector booth at Keele today:
JasonParis
Moderator
I'll take one for my condo please.
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
Check the TTC shop for updates at https://www.ttcshop.ca/
MisterF
Senior Member
Quote from the Line 5 thread
Minor criticism - the limited service GO lines like Richmond Hill should probably be shown as a separate category. Metrolinx has made diagrams that do this before.
Nice to see a Toronto transit diagram done properly. Hint hint, TTC.
Minor criticism - the limited service GO lines like Richmond Hill should probably be shown as a separate category. Metrolinx has made diagrams that do this before.
futurebound
New Member
I honestly don't understand why MX gets so much shit for their wayfinding standards. Implement them across all transit agencies in the GTA now.
picard102
Senior Member
What is this in comparison too?
Amare
Senior Member
Because if you go to that very same station, you'll find the wayfinding (if you're lucky to find them easily) for the individual bus routes at the bus bays to be laughably pathetic.
The wayfinding in this photo here is very good yes, but there are still wide ranging cases where Metrolinx wayfinding is pathetic.
Mihairokov
Senior Member
person who says WAYFINDMOGGING
T3G
Senior Member
"Metrolinx gets a lot of criticism (rightfully so), but the state of transit in Toronto and the Golden Horseshoe would be objectively worse without it."
Is this satire? If you gave the running of the GO system to a bunch of bad tempered high school interns you'd get a more competently run organization than what we currently have. Let's not sit here and pretend that running a transit system is such a highly difficult, skilled operation requiring decades of training that we have to give the bumbling imbeciles at Metrolinx, who have utterly failed on the maintenance front for both trains and buses, credit for anything. Next time my bus is cancelled and I have to wait 2 - 4 hours for the next one, I'll remember how much objectively better off I am than I would be if someone halfway intelligent was heading their operation, instead. And that's before we get into their inability to execute new construction projects in anything resembling a reasonable timeframe, either. The Lord preserve us from apologists like this.
Is this satire? If you gave the running of the GO system to a bunch of bad tempered high school interns you'd get a more competently run organization than what we currently have. Let's not sit here and pretend that running a transit system is such a highly difficult, skilled operation requiring decades of training that we have to give the bumbling imbeciles at Metrolinx, who have utterly failed on the maintenance front for both trains and buses, credit for anything. Next time my bus is cancelled and I have to wait 2 - 4 hours for the next one, I'll remember how much objectively better off I am than I would be if someone halfway intelligent was heading their operation, instead. And that's before we get into their inability to execute new construction projects in anything resembling a reasonable timeframe, either. The Lord preserve us from apologists like this.
futurebound
New Member
The standard itself is very good; they just need to actually follow it. I haven't been to the station, but these should have been put on top of every bus bay door, along with good route diagrams and schedules.
"Interior Bus Bay ID signs are located within terminal buildings, typically above doorways adjacent to bus bays."
It's just a matter of following and implementing the standard.
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
In addition to just "above" the doorway, shouldn't they be at right-angle to the doorway. That way as you are inside walking along you can see the doorway you are aiming for.