Platform 27
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I agree with a system similar to this. Toronto should have colour names for the lines. It sounds silly telling someone to get on the Yonge-Univeristy-Spadina line and then transfer to the Bloor-Danforth line. Telling someone to take the Yellow to the Green line is way more simple and to the point.
Um, you sort of can tell them to take the Yellow line and then transfer to the Green line. Sirens will not go off and men will not drag you away to a padded cell. And they ought to get where they're going just fine.
Granted, this would be more foolproof if the colour-coding of the signage in the transfer stations was a bit better---on signs the line names should always be accompanied by their colours, like London very successfully does, rather than the hit-or-miss signage at present. But so long as there's colour-coding consistently appearing alongside them, I don't see why anyone would want to get rid of the additional information the geographic names provide. For wayfinding, particularly for people not familiar with the city, there's value in knowing the "Yonge" line is more or less under Yonge, no? "Line 1" or "Yellow line" with no further information could run anywhere, but "Yonge" tells me that it may be of use to me getting to such places as "Yonge and St. Clair" or "Yonge and Finch."