Street Signs

[EVCco]

Hmm, there's also a Wells Ave a few blocks south of Wells Hill Ave, east of Bathurst. Thankfully no real ambiguity there ... On another note, this private street in Rosedale is the only example I know of in Toronto of a street being called a close (an extremely common term in the UK for a cul-de-sac):

https://goo.gl/maps/gLRPc

Google shows Fairgate Close in North York.

And there's also a Close Avenue.

This brings up an interesting topic... From a brief glance at a Toronto street index I've gathered a few other samples of unconventional (or nonexistent) local street suffixes:

Ashton Manor
Bayview Wood
Borough Approach
Chesterton Shores
Clueson Park
Cobble Hills
Greenbrae/cedar/holm Circuit
Humbercrest Point
Hunting Ridge
Mid-Dominion Acres
Mill Cove
Park Drive Reservation
The East/West Mall
The Elms
The Esplanade
The Green Pines
The Keanegate
The Outlook
The Wishbone
The Wynd
Valley View

...and a few others around the 905:

Basswood Hollow (Markham)
Bradbury Chase (Mississauga)
Claypine Rise (Mississauga)
Corkstone Glade (Mississauga)
Crossfield Bend (Mississauga)
Fountains Abbey (Mississauga)
Foxacre Row (Brampton)
Hickory Hollow Glen (Mississauga)
Lara Woods (Mississauga)
Lionshead Lookout (Mississauga)
Mulligan Crossing (Mississauga)
Pheasant Run (Mississauga)
Sir John's Homestead (Mississauga)
Tamarind Vale (Brampton)
Taylor's Orchard (Mississauga)
The Credit Woodlands (Mississauga)
The Gallops (Mississauga)
The Loft (Mississauga)
The Thicket (Mississauga)

...and that's not to mention all of North York's various FillInTheBlank-"ways" depicted earlier in this thread, along with The Kingsway, Queensway, Donway, etc. Special mention also goes out to "Grove". Indian Grove immediately came to mind when starting this list, but it turns out that Grove is a much more common suffix around the GTA than I had initially assumed.

As another side-note, it's interesting to see how the dozen or so "Via" prefixes around the GTA are handled; as in Via Italia or Via Campanile, versus the somewhat redundant specimens of Via Aurelia Drive, Via Carmine Avenue, Via Russo Court, or Via Cristina Way.

 

[TheDudeInToronto]

The street signs are important. Some are quite old however, many are from the 80s. Some need to be updated.

 

[EVCco]

Here's one near Keele & Eglinton that managed to escape my attention all these years:

 

[EVCco]

Another new find, not too far from the last one...

 

[EVCco]

...and yet another:

This one's a little odd, I must say.
On the one side it reads "Home Of Thistletown", which already has its own sign:
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/street-signs.13896/page-12#post-1036010
(...besides which, wouldn't Thistletown more rightly be the home of Albion Square?)

Then on the other there appears to be a depiction of a flu virus or some such thing...?:

 

[W. K. Lis]

Interesting little article, from this link.

Which sign is better in gettting the information out to us?

The tower of inanity on the right was erected in Culver City, California, last summer but has been replaced by a four-sign stack that’s, well, still confusing. The new sign is intended to help avoid such situations. (Culver City photo by Sara Welch/KTLA)

L.A. Testing New, Simplified Parking Signs that Every City Should Use—and they Have Bluetooth

Los Angeles is a city built by and built around cars. And as is well known, there are a lot of cars there. Thing is, every driver of every car in L.A. eventually needs to find a place to park. Alas, finding a spot—at least of the legal, on-street variety—is a task not easily done nor understood. Behold L.A.’s new, simplified parking signs that convey parking restrictions in multicolor grid form, not wordy lines of text in varying fonts and sizes.

The signs are the brainchild of designer Nikki Sylianteng, who started the project early last year after—what else?—receiving a parking ticket, and they ultimately caught the eyes of the powers that be in Los Angeles. The tall signs might seem a bit complicated at first glance, but that’s only until you envision how many placards it would take to convey the same information in the traditional way, particularly on streets with periodic tow-away zones and other restrictions. Once you get used to the graphic style, the signs’ sensibility is clear.

The first of these new signs was installed by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti himself. It’s one of 100 going up in downtown L.A. (on Spring and Main Streets between 2nd and 9th Streets, for our L.A.-based readers) as part of a six-month pilot program to help folks avoid a ticket or a trip to the impound lot. If successful, the sign design will be adopted city-wide, and could—and should—be emulated by other municipalities. (Ahem, Culver City.)

“Some of these sign poles are simply out of control, so we should be taking common-sense steps to cut the confusion,” said Mayor Garcetti. Councilmember Paul Krekorian put it another way: “We want to revolutionize the parking experience by making it easy for people to read and understand parking signs. You shouldn’t have to read hieroglyphics to avoid a parking ticket in Los Angeles.”

Just as significant, the new signs also contain Bluetooth beacon technology to interact with smartphone apps as well as possibly enable payment via phone in metered zones. We also imagine that, in the distant future, they could communicate with autonomous cars, broadcasting legal parking zones as the vehicles valet themselves after dropping off passengers at the Disney Concert Hall or some other destination. A QR code on each current sign directs people to parkinginfo.lacity.org, where they can get help in decoding the grid, although we suspect that anyone who knows what a QR code is would be able figure out the sign in the first place.

With their new design and the embedded technology, these new signs not only tell you when you can park on L.A. streets, but may also preview what parking will look like in cities across the country.

 

[Johnny Au]

This brings up an interesting topic... From a brief glance at a Toronto street index I've gathered a few other samples of unconventional (or nonexistent) local street suffixes:

Ashton Manor
Bayview Wood
Borough Approach
Chesterton Shores
Clueson Park
Cobble Hills
Greenbrae/cedar/holm Circuit
Humbercrest Point
Hunting Ridge
Mid-Dominion Acres
Mill Cove
Park Drive Reservation
The East/West Mall
The Elms
The Esplanade
The Green Pines
The Keanegate
The Outlook
The Wishbone
The Wynd
Valley View

...and a few others around the 905:

Basswood Hollow (Markham)
Bradbury Chase (Mississauga)
Claypine Rise (Mississauga)
Corkstone Glade (Mississauga)
Crossfield Bend (Mississauga)
Fountains Abbey (Mississauga)
Foxacre Row (Brampton)
Hickory Hollow Glen (Mississauga)
Lara Woods (Mississauga)
Lionshead Lookout (Mississauga)
Mulligan Crossing (Mississauga)
Pheasant Run (Mississauga)
Sir John's Homestead (Mississauga)
Tamarind Vale (Brampton)
Taylor's Orchard (Mississauga)
The Credit Woodlands (Mississauga)
The Gallops (Mississauga)
The Loft (Mississauga)
The Thicket (Mississauga)

...and that's not to mention all of North York's various FillInTheBlank-"ways" depicted earlier in this thread, along with The Kingsway, Queensway, Donway, etc. Special mention also goes out to "Grove". Indian Grove immediately came to mind when starting this list, but it turns out that Grove is a much more common suffix around the GTA than I had initially assumed.

As another side-note, it's interesting to see how the dozen or so "Via" prefixes around the GTA are handled; as in Via Italia or Via Campanile, versus the somewhat redundant specimens of Via Aurelia Drive, Via Carmine Avenue, Via Russo Court, or Via Cristina Way.

There's also Highland Hill in Lawrence Heights.

 

[EVCco]

A new (to me) pair from Scarborough:

 

[EVCco]

Another bit of news (to me), apparently the area around Finch & Dufferin is now known as "Duke Heights"...

...and as for the old, here's a little bit of creative destruction along Broadview in Riverdale:

 

[Koolgreen]

sad....

 

[DSC]

sad....

Yes but it looks like it was hit by a truck. I hope someone has reported the missing street sign (I assume one IS missing) to 311. In my experience they are actually quite fast about replacing missing or damaged street signs.

 

[EVCco]

 

[EVCco]

 

[EVCco]

Here's a long overdue start at a visual database for each of the city's different sign types:

Classic Neighbourhood Signs
Classic Commemorative Signs
New Astral Media Signs

Old Toronto Typology
East York Typology
Etobicoke Typology
North York Typology
Scarborough Typology
York Typology

Major Roads
Minor Ways
Non-street Signs


(I've also added these links at the top of the first post of this thread for easy reference)

 

[EVCco]

The devolution continues...