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TTC: Easier Access Phase III
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drum118
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Watch for a pile of lawsuit's 2026 if all stations aren't AODA. May get away if a few that are to be open by 1 Q of 2026 and will miss Dec 31 DROP DEAD time line.
Warden will be the worse one not to meet the dead line, with Islington behind it. If TTC goes ahead as plan for Islington, that station should be open mid 2025 depending when work starts.
Once that dead line is met, you will still see lawsuit's until all station have 2 elevators in place of the current ones. This applies to all systems.
Warden will be the worse one not to meet the dead line, with Islington behind it. If TTC goes ahead as plan for Islington, that station should be open mid 2025 depending when work starts.
Once that dead line is met, you will still see lawsuit's until all station have 2 elevators in place of the current ones. This applies to all systems.
Richard White
Senior Member
Warden while not as bad as Islington is showing it's age. The problem is that given the topography (Warden is in the side of a hill) it is a complex mess trying to build anything new
Northern Light
Superstar
Allandale25
Senior Member
H4F33Z
Active Member
oH look, the station no one even uses. But i'm glad more stations are getting accesible!
Streety McCarface
Senior Member
The people living in Greektown would beg to differ.
Northern Light
Superstar
Dupont Station elevators are finally operating!
Coolstar
Senior Member
Towered
Senior Member
Geeking out over a new elevator at a subway station is on another level of bizarre.
Northern Light
Superstar
LOL; well joyriding it is a bit odd; though I could understand some disbelief that it might actually be open..........how many years later???
W. K. Lis
Superstar
That'll make it 49 TTC elevators of the system's 75 stations. Compare with 16 metro stations in Montréal.
PMT
Senior Member
Dupont Station is accessible - Easier Access Project Update
Fall 2020
Dupont Station is the newest TTC subway station to become accessible. Three new elevators connecting the street to concourse and subway platforms levels are now open for customer use.
The new accessible TTC subway entrance/street-level elevator (E1) is located on the Southeast corner of Dupont Street and Spadina Road.
Other minor project related work will continue at the station.
Cross section image of station elevators
Public art
Art is an important component of major station upgrades. As a part of this station upgrade work, TTC contacted the original artist, James Sutherland, who was first commissioned in 1977 to complete the glass mosaic tile mural entitled “Spadina Summer Under all Seasons". His original work is installed at Dupont Station’s subway platform level. In 2020, James Sutherland was invited back to create a new public art concept, “The Force that through the Green Fuse drives the Flower”. The new mural will be installed in 2021 on the station’s Concourse level (see image).
“In 1977, I won a competition with 7 other artists, to create public art in the newly constructed “Spadina Subway Line” now called “Yonge-University Line 1”. I was assigned to Dupont Station and designed the glass mosaic tile mural entitled, “Spadina Summer Under all Seasons" which was installed the following year. My concept was to include an organic bit of surreal magic as a foil to balance the high tech qualities of a modern subway.
In 2020, when TTC retrofitted the station with new elevators, I was invited back to create another public art installation for Dupont Station. This new mural, “The Force that through the Green Fuse drives the Flower” is meant to provide thematic context for the original mosaics and for our species in this Anthropocene era, through some of the many insights of botanical science which represent a more fundamental magic, that of the evolution of plants from the inception of photosynthesis in Precambrian oceans to that miracle’s on-going consequences as flowering plants, since 130 million years ago. Almost all life on our planet has ensued from this primary process of Nature: from the manufacture of nourishing plant sugars to the oxygenation of our atmosphere, from production of fertile soil and the fungal networks that connect plant life under the soil in a “wood wide web” of nutrient trade and communication. We are the product of this wondrous phenomenon and it is part of us. We are all, truly, in this together.”
– The artist, James Sutherland
drum118
Superstar
TTC celebrates accessibility at Wellesley and Chester stations
Oct. 1, 2020
Two more TTC subway stations, Wellesley and Chester, are now fully accessible. The 47th and 48th stations to become accessible will be celebrated at events over the next several days.
This Sat., Oct. 3, Toronto Mayor John Tory, Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher and Mazin Aribi, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Accessible Transit (ACAT), will join TTC CEO Rick Leary at Chester Station.
Date: Sat., Oct. 3, 2020
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Location: Chester Station on Line 2, westbound elevator near the collector's booth.
As part of the upgrade, ceramic and glass mosaics will be installed next to the elevators and above the main entrance door before the end of the year. The art is Katharine Harvey's Florae, a piece inspired by the native plants and flowers that define the east-end neighbourhoods surrounding the station like milkweed, verbena, trout lily, and blue flag iris. It will be translated into double-exposed ceramic and glass mosaics by Mosaika of Montreal Studio.
On Wed., Oct. 7, Toronto Centre Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and ACAT's Mazin Aribi will join CEO Rick Leary to commemorate accessibility at Wellesley Station.
Date: Wed., Oct. 7, 2020
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Wellesley Station on Line 1, northwest elevator on bus platform level.
This station will also be receiving an artistic injection featuring a large, curved ceramic tile mosaic based on the colours of subway tiles from Line 1 stations designed by Montreal artist Gisele Amantea. Installation will also take place later this year.
Accessibility improvements such as these support the TTC's Family of Services model, which gives Wheel-Trans customers the option to use accessible conventional transit services, such as buses, the subway and the growing fleet of low-floor streetcars. Family of Services is a part of the Wheel-Trans 10-Year Strategy that aims to reimagine and transform the accessible public transit services that are delivered to customers with disabilities.
The TTC remains committed to full system accessibility by 2025 under its Easier Access Program.
Oct. 1, 2020
Two more TTC subway stations, Wellesley and Chester, are now fully accessible. The 47th and 48th stations to become accessible will be celebrated at events over the next several days.
This Sat., Oct. 3, Toronto Mayor John Tory, Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher and Mazin Aribi, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Accessible Transit (ACAT), will join TTC CEO Rick Leary at Chester Station.
Date: Sat., Oct. 3, 2020
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Location: Chester Station on Line 2, westbound elevator near the collector's booth.
As part of the upgrade, ceramic and glass mosaics will be installed next to the elevators and above the main entrance door before the end of the year. The art is Katharine Harvey's Florae, a piece inspired by the native plants and flowers that define the east-end neighbourhoods surrounding the station like milkweed, verbena, trout lily, and blue flag iris. It will be translated into double-exposed ceramic and glass mosaics by Mosaika of Montreal Studio.
On Wed., Oct. 7, Toronto Centre Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and ACAT's Mazin Aribi will join CEO Rick Leary to commemorate accessibility at Wellesley Station.
Date: Wed., Oct. 7, 2020
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Wellesley Station on Line 1, northwest elevator on bus platform level.
This station will also be receiving an artistic injection featuring a large, curved ceramic tile mosaic based on the colours of subway tiles from Line 1 stations designed by Montreal artist Gisele Amantea. Installation will also take place later this year.
Accessibility improvements such as these support the TTC's Family of Services model, which gives Wheel-Trans customers the option to use accessible conventional transit services, such as buses, the subway and the growing fleet of low-floor streetcars. Family of Services is a part of the Wheel-Trans 10-Year Strategy that aims to reimagine and transform the accessible public transit services that are delivered to customers with disabilities.
The TTC remains committed to full system accessibility by 2025 under its Easier Access Program.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Maybe in addition to the artwork, the TTC should actually plant some milkweed on at those subway entrances. To attract the monarch butterfly, which caterpillars graze on milkweed.
From link.