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DENTROBATE54 said:
SCOTIABATE54 thinks corporations already have too much say in the branding of public buildings/infrastructure (Skydome now Rogers Centre, Hummingbird Centre now Sony Centre)
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Just for the record, the Sony Centre has never had a non-coporation name. It was the Hummingbird Centre b/c of the software company that bought the naming rights (and after their takeover, choose not to renew the contract), and before that was the O'Keefe Centre, named after the brewing company (whose founder actually built the complex and later sold it to the city).
 
I also also think Fairview would have been a perfectly cromulent name. People call the local area Fairview and "Don Mills" really is farther south.

dentrobate: North York Centre station is located at the North York Civic Centre...it doesn't even have an exit at Empress.
 
Another way to attract new members to the group could be with a cool "Facebook Application"

http://www.facebook.com/applications/

a programmer can write a program that interfaces somehow with the Facebook system, and people use it to interact with each other in their profiles.

the docs on how to make them are here, http://developers.facebook.com/ I could probably figure it out.

but just need an idea about what to make :)
 
scarberiankhatru said:
dentrobate: North York Centre station is located at the North York Civic Centre...it doesn't even have an exit at Empress.
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It does to Empress Walk though, and it's only due to bad planning that the automated exit to the north doesn't exit directly onto Park Home/Empress instead of a second access point to the same mall as the first :rolleyes:.

The point I was making is that it breaks from the mould of most the Yonge Line, naming stops after the intersection rather than local landmarks, instituitions or neighborhoods. Back when the Yonge North extension proposals began it was stated that the mid-blocks would've been at Glencairn, Yonge Blvd, [Lord Seaton] and Empress. It's merely an anomaly that the civic centre got built near Empress and changed the course of history.

It's also a point of confusion for people who get off at NYC Stn. thinking they've arrived in North York City only to then realize their destination might actually have been closer to Yonge and Sheppard. Again the intersection should be the primary nominative of a station unless the title's already taken (Dundas> St Patrick> Dndas West) with, if must, a descriptor of major landmark/instituition nearby as the subheading (BAY-Yorkville).
 
North York Centre station also just happens to be between Park Home/Empress and, you guessed it, North York Blvd. No other name is appropriate.

Should Yorkdale be called Ranee? Should Scarborough Centre be called Borough? Any chance the York U station might get called Ian McDonald? No. North York Centre is not and has not been confusing for anybody.
 
Rosedale station is located on Crescent Road. Summerhill station is located on Shaftesbury Ave.

There are no rules when it comes to station naming.
 
Yorkdale would remain Yorkdale because it's major exit is onto Yorkdale Rd. Mall or no mall, that'd be the most logical title.

Since there's zero cross intersections at Scarborough Centre Stn. and intentionally feeds the Town Centre and civic cente anyway, again the name's logical and sticks.

York U will have a total of 3 subway stations serving it, so automatically you're already continuing the honored tradition of sending unfamiliar new students to York Lanes when their class could be at Northwest Gt. or dormitory closer to Four Winds. At least though this station would actually be on York property, unlike the GO stn, lol!

But back to North York Centre which automatically makes me question where's Toronto Centre subway station at (Dundas, Queen, Union)? You're still not getting it. Today's NYC Stn has big, ugly, non-Helvetica font covering a good third surface area what is otherwise an aesethically pleasing wall-scape (blue/white colour scheme, old neighborhoods tribute, farm motif). Empress is short, concise, to the point and would provide a better locational function beyond homaging a puppet gov't building.

Rosedale station is located on Crescent Road. Summerhill station is located on Shaftesbury Ave. There are no rules when it comes to station naming.
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Rosedale Valley Rd is immediately south of the station, likewise a zillion Summerhills are just north of Shaftbury. If a sidestreet in the vicinity of Dundas/University was all it took to produce St Patrick Stn, these can get a pass, especially when the area surrounding them's already known as Rosedale and Summerhill.
 
DENTROBATE54 said:
Rosedale Valley Rd is immediately south of the station, likewise a zillion Summerhills are just north of Shaftbury. If a sidestreet in the vicinity of Dundas/University was all it took to produce St Patrick Stn, these can get a pass, especially when the area surrounding them's already known as Rosedale and Summerhill.
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Much of Rosedale is closer to Sherbourne or Castle Frank stations.

St. Patrick station is named after the former city ward it serves, just like St. Andrew. So, essentially, they're named after neighbourhoods.

(A zillion Summerhills?)
 
North York Centre station is at the site of the North York Civic Centre, next to the intersection of Yonge and North York Boulevard, located at the centre of North York Centre.

Apparently, none of that matters because its ugly font pays homage to a puppet government.
 
CDL.TO said:
Much of Rosedale is closer to Sherbourne or Castle Frank stations.

St. Patrick station is named after the former city ward it serves, just like St. Andrew. So, essentially, they're named after neighbourhoods.

(A zillion Summerhills?)
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BUT! Bloor-Danforth's a west-east aligned subway, YUS is north-south. As such every cross artery north-south (bipartite) that intersects either Bloor or Danforth becomes the focus of relevancy. Likewise every mid-block concession east-west that intercepts YUS becomes the focus. As such 'Rosedale' would be an illogical descriptor for either Sherbourne or Castle Frank because the emphasis should be on the intersecting street's name.

Because there's an absence of a major cross-intersection around Crescent nor Shaftbury, and neither has an immediate landmark point-of-interest with which to substitute relevancy (as in the case of Union over entitling the stop Front Stn.), then the next best bet is to name the stops after their distinct neighborhoods.

The names 'Rosedale' and 'Summerhill' repeat themselves several times in the area immediately around the subway (Roasdale Rd, Rosedale Valley Rd, Rosedale Elementary, Summerhill Av, Summerhill Gdns, Summerhill Pl).

Apparently, none of that matters because its ugly font pays homage to a puppet government.
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It's stretching the limitations of a subway platform to assume North York Blvd is seamlessly accessible from the station. You apparently glanced over the multiple times now I've said NYC is acceptable. It's just not 100% the right moniker for a stop that official City of T.O. docs pass off as 'at the intersection of Yonge and Empress/Park Home'. You can name subway stops for urban centres/landmarks yes but at least inset somewhere in the title where the hell it is, people are going off the train to i.e. NORTH YORK CENTRE [subtitle] Empress Avenue. And by puppet gov't, I obviously meant the necessity of municipal civic centres has collapsed for over a decade now, making the NYCC labelling of the station arbitrary, hence a nostalgic homage :rolleyes:!!
 
It would be good if instead of a Don Mills LRT, extend the DRL line up Don Mills.

An eastern version of the Spadina Line would be great, particularly if it relieves the Yonge Line.
 
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