adma
Superstar
A good idea, but I wonder if it's possible. What was uncovered at St. Andrew looked badly damaged and many sections were then further destroyed to test the integrity of the wall underneath. Is preserving any Vitrolite (aside from Eglinton) still feasible?
And back to the topic, they should really just remove the new wall panels and put back the slats if they don't plan to finish the job. The wall panels are mismatched among themselves even, and they look dirty.
Well, I'm sure that St Andrew's and Osgoode are virtually the *only* stations where older Vitrolite remains under the present cladding--the nature of the original Yonge-line renos is such where the 1954 line stuff would have been trashed rather than overlaid. So yes, it's not feasible, because there's nothing old left to restore, and nobody manufactures Vitrolite these days. Except at Eglinton (and various bits of edging-tile at Queen, and who knows where else it's buried besides St Andrew and Osgoode) it's neither a functional nor a viable proposition.
And of course, the nature of the St Andrew's renos is such that it would appear to address the "unrestorable Vitrolite" circumstance, without trying to recreate the material holus bolus.