Dan416
Senior Member
I don't mind orange, but I think Eglinton should be blue, and DRL red. Orange could be Finch.
TTC has undertaken a map redesign to make it easier for customers to read. This includes identifying different services more readily, showing bus and streetcar routes more clearly, and reducing clutter. Design improvements include enlarged map scale, reorganized and new line types for surface routes and a simplified background.
Updates in the redesigned map
Map Scale
New Look for Surface Routes
- The scale of the map has been enlarged so that the City of Toronto fills the page. This creates more room on the map for clearer representation of routes, route numbers, and other information.
Background Map
- Routes have been reorganized into 5 line types – frequent service, regular service, limited service, express service, and community bus service. Frequent service, regular service and limited service are shown using different line widths and styles; Express service and community bus service are shown using different colours.
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- Frequent service, a new category, identifies bus and streetcar routes that operate at 10min or better service, weekdays from 7am to 10pm and weekends 9am to 7pm. These routes are shown with a thick red line.
- Regular service continues to show bus and streetcar routes that run all day, every day until 1am. These routes are shown with a thin red line.
- Limited service now includes routes previously identified as rush hour only. These routes continue to be shown with a thin red dashed line.
- Express services are now separated out and shown with a thin blue line.
- Community bus service is shown with a thin yellow line.
- Where the frequent portion of a route ends, the line type reflects the type of service that continues. In the inset map below, for example, 66 Prince Edward provides frequent, regular service along Bloor St W, Prince Edward Dr and part of Berry Rd. East of Park Lawn Rd, where the two branches separate, regular service is provided on each branch.
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- All routes are now shown separate from each other.
- Route numbers are now placed alongside the lines representing the routes, and in terminal boxes that are placed at the terminal point of a branch of a route, except where the terminal is at a subway station. Small on-street loops have been replaced with a termination box.
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- The directional arrow for a route has been simplified. The arrow’s location on a loop has been placed as close as possible to its beginning to improve clarity.
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- Where two or more lines are present the route numbers are read left to right, for routes shown from outside to inside.
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- Cluttered road network has been reduced to only display street names relevant to surface routes.
Agreed, although in their defence, streetcars already have the 500-series for route numbers for differentiation.How about orange for the streetcar routes, to show up different but almost the same, as the red bus routes? Or a different shade of red streetcar routes?
Agreed, although in their defence, streetcars already have the 500-series for route numbers for differentiation.