Dupont Station accessibility project (TTC)

[TossYourJacket]

The failure to include some measure of redundancy, at the very least with major stations, is an unfortunate failing with the Easier Access project.

Of course, the various components should work better, and more often than they do; but it's a fact of life that all would require shutdowns for maintenance and refits at various times, which is why having a second elevator path from
platform to surface matters.

Yeah, this is something that really could have been done better. For its many flaws, one thing Ottawa's Confederation Line has done well is the inclusion of redundant elevators.

Good news for Toronto is that Metrolinx looks to be doing the same for the Ontario Line and SSE extension (based on the renderings we have showing multiple elevators on a consistent basis).

That said, we need to do better with improving accessible access to the stations we already have. It's ridiculous we're building an entirely new entrance to College station, for example, and only including a single accessible route to the surface as part of it.

 

[AlbertC]

The artwork on those new-ish cinder block walls...

 

[DSCToronto]

The artwork on those new-ish cinder block walls...


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Are those cinder-block walls the final state? If so ....

 

[AlbertC]

Are those cinder-block walls the final state? If so ....

Couldn't find any details online on whether that's the final state they intended. Guess it's only fitting for Dupont station to be left in a state of aesthetical uncertainty, to capture the incompleteness of the place for the greater part of the last decade or so.

 

[JasonParis]

I can't fathom those being in a final state. They aren't even industrial chic.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

I can't fathom those being in a final state. They aren't even industrial chic.

It's the TTC we're talking about - fathoming the unfathomable is their expertise.

AoD

 

[AlbertC]

Lime green walls for the final state

 

[interchange42]

I know that taste is subjective…

…and the artwork itself is fine and I suspect the artist chose the wall tile colour as it actually picks up a major colour from one section of the artwork…

…but wrong, so, so WRONG.

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[Northern Light]

Lime green walls for the final state

It's not what I would have chosen; though, in the context of Dupont, what I would otherwise call a garish colour has its place.

At least it's not unfinished, or white or grey....

But to me, a proper homage to Dupont would have to be have used penny tile strips to mimic the existing tile work on the station and give it a mosaic feel; The art work should have used this format too, but it was likely out of budget, which brings us back to my longstanding objections about how we handle public art, instead of using every dollar from a given project on site, they should be accumulated so as to allow a larger budget to do better work at fewer sites.

Do a few things well, not many mediocre.