salsa
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Don (and others) should be awarded the key to the city!
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Don (and others) should be awarded the key to the city!
Leo_Chan
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Here's something that confuses me: Why is Downsview -> Sheppard West while Eglinton West -> Cedarvale. I understand the confusion with Downsview Park, but why not be consistent?
Amare
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Ask the TTC commissioners, im sure they'll be able to answer for their stupidity.
DonValleyRainbow
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The same stupidity that drove them to not rename Eglinton to Eglinton-Yonge.
Amare
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Additionally and to be fair, Metrolinx deserves most of the blame in the case of the Crosstown names.
adrianaliu
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i feel like this would make sense totally if eglinton was renamed eglinton-yonge because u dont want line 5 (eglinton line) going into stations that are named after the street the line travels along. if this were my choice, i would have cedarvale (eglinton-allen isn't bad), sheppard west (avoid confusion with dowsview park) and eglinton-yonge. It makes no sense to newcomers that theyre riding the eglinton line and pull into a station called eglinton or eglinton west, they know theyre on eglinton but they have no clue what cross street theyre at.
Leo_Chan
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Would it be unpopular to have Bathurst Station (Bloor), Bathurst North Station (Sheppard), Bathurst South Station (Queen), and Bathurst Mid Station (Eglinton). Or have obvious names like Bathurst-Sheppard, Bathurst-Eglinton, Bathurst-Bloor, and Bathurst-Queen. However, I feel like both of the previous examples won't be chosen and they'll go with unique names.
Hopkins123
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Or Bathurst (Bloor), Earl Bales (Sheppard), Fort York (Queen) and Forest Hill (Eglinton).
Bathurst North for Sheppard actually isn't that bad as I highly doubt there'd be a future subway beyond that at Bathurst-Finch or Bathurst-Steeles.
Leo_Chan
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The first part of you reply is the unique names thing I said is what they're probably going to use.
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Remember that "Forest Hill" was the one name that got Metrolinx board members riled up?
Oh, priorities.
Dan416
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I think LA has better station names for their Metro system than we do. Many of them are the two cross-streets (Wilshire/Western; Wilshire/Vermont; Vermont/Beverly; Vermont/Sunset; Hollywood/Western; Hollywood/Vine). Many of them include the major points of interest (Union Station; Civic Center/Grand Park; Aviation/LAX; Expo Park/USC; Jefferson/USC; Grand/LATTC).
Aside from using slashes, which can be hard to read in certain font sizes and types, I agree. "Western-Wilshire" or "Western & Wilshire" would be perfect. For the record, I prefer putting the street name that the line is on/under last in the name, not first.
Hopkins123
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Odd too that such a debate would even be contentious considering the proximity of Old Forest Hill Rd, Forest Hill Library and Forest Hill Collegiate to Bathurst/Eglinton. You'd think "Forest Hill" would be a natural fit for such a station stop.
adrianaliu
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i think you should only resort to using north south east and west if all other options are taken, or if they propose naming bathurst-queen to something like "fort york/garrison park & museum village"
Palma
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forest hill makes more sense at the chaplin stop but I still prefer the cross street names for station stops