Dan416
Senior Member
I love that signage in NYC would love if we used it here. So much better. Don't know why we didn't steal that idea.
I love that signage in NYC would love if we used it here. So much better. Don't know why we didn't steal that idea.
The same reason we stuck with tokens while they've been using Metrocards since the early 1990s?
What's the last "cutting edge" or "best practice" or "innovative" thing TTC has done? I know and empathize with their financial situation etc. but there was a time other systems borrowed our ideas. I hadn't even really thought about how dumb the new signs are (they do look cool!) when it comes to effectively being non-upgradeable. Those subway cars are brand new. Surely having LED signs, like the New York ones, could have been done.
The complaints about the TR's maps are getting a little ridiculous. They're not updatable in the same way that practically every other sign on the TTC is non-updatable. Yes, updating the maps won't be as easy as removing a piece of paper. But just like every other sign on the TTC I'm sure that there is some way for it to be updated.
We might as well be complaining that all of the navigational signs on the TTC are't easily removable stickers.
I don't think it's a huge deal. Heck, maybe those signs are only like $100 to replace for all I know. But given that a new line was already in the works and several others in the planning stages when the new cars were designed you'd think they'd have gone for something more flexible and looked at other technology (like the LED signs). So, not a huge deal but another small example of the TTC not really getting out in front of things, IMHO.
They don't really need to move any of the lightbulbs. It looks like the map is ready to support the Vaughan extension. Look at the holes to the north of Downsview. They holes (and likely the circuitry) are already there, they just need to install the bulbs and update the paper map.
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Complaints in Toronto will suddenly go from "we have only two rapid transit lines" to, "we have 13 rapid transit lines! That's too much to fit.
It's not the partAre LCD screens that expensive? Panels with lights seem so dated.
Sadly the naming convention doesn't seem to work that way: at Bloor-Yonge and Sheppard-Yonge, the east-west name seems to come before the north-south.
Not Always
Yonge-Dundas (Square)
Yonge-Eglinton (Centre)
Eglinton Crosstown shows the station at Yonge and Eglinton as still called Eglinton, but I'm doubting that will stay once the Crosstown is fully built.