W. K. Lis
Superstar
The ROM already has Museum station..
Corrected it.
The ROM already has Museum station..
I like the fact that they are using neighbourhoods and local landmarks for names, instead of just streets. It gives much more character to the stations/names. They can print the street's name below the station's name, for those who don't know the city.
It also avoids nonsense like Lawrence, Lawrence West, and Lawrence East. Sheppard West is a travesty we can't seem to avoid. Likewise, Finch West.
We have avoided Steeles West. West of what?
Maybe they should rename "St. Patrick" station after the Art Gallery of Ontario? It's closer to the station than the Pioneer Village Station is to it's name sake.
It's "suburb close", because in the suburbs nothing is ever close to anything.
Tourists and other people would know that if they want to get to Black Creek Pioneer Village by transit, this would be the closest subway stop. Even better if BCPV operates a small shuttle between the station and the front entrance.
I really don't see what's so terrible about the Pioneer Village name.
hate the name and a waste of money looking at this huge stationNothing can convince me that this station name has a lick of sense. I hate it.
Love the station building itself though.
then why not say steeles and in the future if there is a steeles on yonge line, call it steeles east or reverse names and call it steeles and the steeles on spadina call steeles west., Its not like the TTC hass not changed station names in the past (Downsview)I wonder it Pioneer Village was chosen over Steeles West because the TTC because thinks some riders might think there's also a Steeles Station on the Yonge line?
hate the idea.I like the fact that they are using neighbourhoods and local landmarks for names, instead of just streets. It gives much more character to the stations/names. They can print the street's name below the station's name, for those who don't know the city.
please lets stop with renaming stations. Sattions should be named after cross streets. How many people know the neighbourhood of Fairbank?Maybe they should rename "St. Andrew" station after the Royal Alex or Roy Thompson Hall?
Maybe they should rename "St. Patrick" station after the Art Gallery of Ontario? It's closer to the station than the Pioneer Village Station is to it's name sake.
then why not say steeles and in the future if there is a steeles on yonge line, call it steeles east or reverse names and call it steeles and the steeles on spadina call steeles west., Its not like the TTC hass not changed station names in the past (Downsview)
hate the idea.
please lets stop with renaming stations. Sattions should be named after cross streets. How many people know the neighbourhood of Fairbank?
It also avoids nonsense like Lawrence, Lawrence West, and Lawrence East. Sheppard West is a travesty we can't seem to avoid. Likewise, Finch West. We have avoided Steeles West. West of what?
hate the idea.
please lets stop with renaming stations. Sattions should be named after cross streets. How many people know the neighbourhood of Fairbank?
Really good way to get boring station names.
"Okay kids, to get to the ROM we'll take the GO Train into Front-between-Bay-and-York Station, then the subway up to Charles West Station. Later to get to the Ontario Science Centre we'll get off at Don Mills South-ish Station."
If only other cities did this too... Who would want station names like Canary Wharf and Marble Arch? That gives you no idea where you're going... Instead it should be Upper Bank and Bayswater East!
So your suggestion is that there should be no policy at all? Not to sound all "big government" but that's kind of the point of having a governing body. They set rules and follow them. As I said above, the problem here was not any of the individual names but how TTC ignored its own policies. It's totally fine to say that policy needed revising but you can't run a government or agency where they make things up as they go along on a case by case basis.