From an aesthetic standpoint, yes (while subjective, I suspect most would agree that having blue fill in between green (2) and purple (4), as was the case with the SRT, would look nicer than the darker shade of purple).
While I've read the discussions about looping around the 407 and what not, it always sounded like nothing more than a fantasy or a hypothetical possibility in the distant future, with no concrete plans to actually move forward with it.
In my mind, I'd barely call Line 4 purple. Looks more magenta to me. I'm not sure I'd call that Line 3 colour "darker purple" either.
Who knows what Metrolinx is thinking. They had the Exhibition relief subway plan around for years, seldom appearing in public, until the day they announced the Ontario Line. The loop to the west has only appeared on government documents.
I agree with that, I was gonna call it that too but since everyone simply called it purple I just went along with it. The NYC 7 is also pretty much the same color.
They probably used the wrong ctb file (customizable color tables) when plotting to PDF. MX has a specific ctb file for all designers and consultants to use.
Entirely possible. Neither Metrolinx cocking up by using the same colour twice, nor printing it wrong.
Yes, it appears almost identical to the 7 in NYC. And as an aside, NYC operates okay with multiple lines, using the same colour - mostly because of interlining.
At least the way it appears on my screen here in the office, I'd describe that colour as in the pink family before purple. But magenta is right.
I used to think it was pink. But then TTC dropped pink for Line 8 (Jane) in a document a few years ago.
The NYC system makes sense though, the colour represents which trunk the line runs through when in Midtown Manhattan, where each letter is effectively a branch of that trunk line. So Blue is 8th Avenue, Orange is 6th avenue, Red is 7th Avenue, Yellow is Broadway, etc.
Yes, but what doesn't make sense (at least to an outsider not as intimately well-versed in the system's route history) is why the letter branches are grouped randomly rather than sequentially. For example, why is it ACE, BDFM and not ABC, DEFG, etc.
Ah, that's an interesting and helpful way of looking at it. Though Orange is on 8th much more than 6th; and most of my riding on it has been in the Bronx and Brooklyn on neither! Similarly Red spends more time on Broadway than on 7th.
More specifically, I believe the colours refer to the street the service runs under in midtown.Ah, that's an interesting and helpful way of looking at it. Though Orange is on 8th much more than 6th; and most of my riding on it has been in the Bronx and Brooklyn on neither! Similarly Red spends more time on Broadway than on 7th.
Oh if only we could have such issues to worry about here ....
Don Valley Station?