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Osgoode should remain. Osgoode Hall is a landmark.
We can hyphenate queens park with college west, but i am will disagree that osgood hall (the building) is well known even in Toronto. But i wouldn't be opposed to hyphenated name either that includes Queen Street West.
Weston can't be called Weston because Weston GO exists, and Metrolinx wants to unify the GO and TTC station names (granted they're not doing a great job since we still have 2 Eglintons and 2 Mt. Pleasants but that's the goal). As for Bathurst North, Dufferin North, Keele North, whatever. That will work, until they build a new line north of Line 5 where, uh oh what are you going to do now? If they extend Line 4 to Sheppard West, are you going to call the station at Bathurst "Bathurst even further North"? What about if they extend Line 6 east to Yonge, will that station be called "Bathurst Ultra North"? Oh Metrolinx is thinking of building an RT line along Steeles, would the station on Bathurst be called "Bathurst as far North as it can go before you're no longer in Toronto?" At some point you have to realize that there's a limit to naming streets after streets, and unless you want to have a bunch of stations named after intersections which aren't exactly nice, you have to think of something else, and naming stations after neighborhoods is a decent compromise.
Checkpoint Charlie is taken, unfortunately. Need another name for the stations before leaving the Toronto Sector.
There is one but it's open only to MPPS and Queen's park office staff.
IMO, the Bloor and Sheppard station names only work because those lines stick to a single continuous street (yes, Bloor becomes Danforth but it's the same road). That naming convention becomes increasingly useless on anything like the University or Ontario lines where it doesn't stick to a single road. For example if we name the station at Gerrard and Carlaw "Gerrard" that tells me nothing about where on Gerrard I am, given the line wiggles all over the place.
The power to be at Vaughan will slap you silly for making that request as Vaughan Metropolitan Centre was the name they wanted from day one and opposed Vaughan Centre name as well others. TTC try a number of times as well Toronto to kill the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre name and go with a shorter name. No need to have 2 station with the same name regardless its an east or west or what every.
I know this may be pedantic, but didn't they initially push "Vaughan Corporate Centre"?
I would be delighted to see billions spent to push higher order transit to the east..... simply so that Toronto has its own Zoo Station.
Well the question is why are those neighbourhoods known? Perhaps the fact that they're highlighted on the tube map that people know about them and where they're located. I've never been to London, but I know that Canning Town is on the DLR and is an interchange with the Jubilee, so even knowing very little about the road network of London, I know that if someone says they live in Canning Town, its somewhere east of Canary Wharf, near the Docklands.
