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Cobra said:
I tried so many times to bring it up to Metrolinx and gave up. Perhaps since they are renaming "Science Centre" to "Don Valley" - this could be a good time for us to collectively push them to rename Eglinton to Eglinton-Yonge?
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I'm still sour that Translink named the SkyTrain station serving Simon Fraser University "Production Way-University". The buses serving the University of British Columbia aren't called "University". The future UBC Extension SkyTrain line isn't called "University" Extension...
 
Cobra said:
I tried so many times to bring it up to Metrolinx and gave up. Perhaps since they are renaming "Science Centre" to "Don Valley" - this could be a good time for us to collectively push them to rename Eglinton to Eglinton-Yonge?
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This has been brought up so many times. The station is named after the village of Eglinton which the station serves. It’s not just named after the intersection and I don’t see any reason why we would want to rename it as such.
 
Vortex112 said:
This has been brought up so many times. The station is named after the village of Eglinton which the station serves. It’s not just named after the intersection and I don’t see any reason why we would want to rename it as such.
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lol maybe because no has ever heard of the Village of Eglinton, which also happens to share its name with the entire stretch of the EGLINTON crosstown line which runs on EGLINTON avenue. anyway this line has bigger problems than the names of the stations
 
Vortex112 said:
This has been brought up so many times. The station is named after the village of Eglinton which the station serves. It’s not just named after the intersection and I don’t see any reason why we would want to rename it as such.
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This would be like insisting Spadina Station be pronounced SPA-DEE-NA because it's located north of Bloor and that's the original pronunciation of Spadina Road. Historically accurate, but nobody would be stupid enough to insist that be the case.
 
This reminds me of how I was once told Yorkdale is not a commercial name, because the nearby neighbourhood that few people have heard of was also called Yorkdale.

The fact that the station came 14 years after the mall with a coincidentally identical name was apparently not relevant...
 
robmausser said:
Ironically, lefts never had to be banned on Leslie nor interact with the LRT at all in any way. It could be accomplished with one of the simplest fixes in human history. One that is used everywhere around the world with LRT's already, but Toronto is completely blind to because "we do things best here" and we are the centre of the universe. This solution is so groundbreaking it will completely shock you to your core: have had the LRT leave the Laird tunnel to the south of Eglinton and move the street to where the LRT is in the centre. Then have the LRT continue on the south side of a shifted Eglinton until it goes under at Don Mills again.

This radical, mind blowing invention (for Toronto, elsewhere in the world its the norm) would have allowed Leslie to have an intersection that doesn't interfere with the LRT at all, because its a 3 way street that only goes north, and meant the entire segment from Laird to Don Mills could have been completely grade separated.

Unfortunately this would have meant doing things in a way that we don't do them in Toronto (streetcars run in the centre lane and thats the word of the gospel in Toronto gosh darnit!) which is something Toronto is incapable of doing because we love to look at our own reflection in Lake Ontario sooo much.
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And before people start commenting on Queen's Quay West or Sumach/Cherry...

It was my understanding why we couldn't do this was because of Rob Ford's underground proposal, and the City's desire to push this through as planned.

@robmausser is right. If we hadn't been so quick to push Line 5 forward to oppose Ford, we could have had a dedicated ROW between YYZ/Renforth/Mount Dennis and whatever Don Mills calls itself...

Not to beat a dead horse, but the South Side-alignment was correct, and we'll be paying for this in decades to come, especially if every other train turns back at Laird.

Look at all the bus routes terminating at Don Valley...

I'll already be punished with a linear transfer at Sheppard (51A/151).
 
Mind_the_gap said:
And before people start commenting on Queen's Quay West or Sumach/Cherry...

It was my understanding why we couldn't do this was because of Rob Ford's underground proposal, and the City's desire to push this through as planned.

@robmausser is right. If we hadn't been so quick to push Line 5 forward to oppose Ford, we could have had a dedicated ROW between YYZ/Renforth/Mount Dennis and whatever Don Mills calls itself...

Not to beat a dead horse, but the South Side-alignment was correct, and we'll be paying for this in decades to come, especially if every other train turns back at Laird.

Look at all the bus routes terminating at Don Valley...

I'll already be punished with a linear transfer at Sheppard (51A/151).
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Yes the understanding I have is that in order to realign the track to the south, the city had to yet again reopen the file, and you have to accept other proposals as well, which would have given Rob Ford another chance to try and force the whole line to be buried. So they just decided to leave it as is.

I believe it actually would have been possible to have a completely grade-separated line all the way to Bermondsey, if you did the south alignment of the Leslie section, and then rebuilt the DVP ramps, and simply disallowed a small road to not cross the LRT. The rest of the line until Bermondsey in the east doesn't interact with a single intersection, because there are on/off ramps for several streets in anticipation of the Richview Highway.
 
robmausser said:
Yes the understanding I have is that in order to realign the track to the south, the city had to yet again reopen the file, and you have to accept other proposals as well, which would have given Rob Ford another chance to try and force the whole line to be buried. So they just decided to leave it as is.

I believe it actually would have been possible to have a completely grade-separated line all the way to Bermondsey, if you did the south alignment of the Leslie section, and then rebuilt the DVP ramps, and simply disallowed a small road to not cross the LRT. The rest of the line until Bermondsey in the east doesn't interact with a single intersection, because there are on/off ramps for several streets in anticipation of the Richview Highway.
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Nothing to do with the Richview Expressway, which was only intended to link the 401/427 interchange with the Highway 400 extension somewhere around Black Creek & Eglinton.

It was simply a high speed arterial built by Metro in the 1950s to connect two previously disconnected sections of Eglinton between Leaside and the Golden Mile, which did not cross the Don Valley.
 
mrgrieves said:
lol maybe because no has ever heard of the Village of Eglinton, which also happens to share its name with the entire stretch of the EGLINTON crosstown line which runs on EGLINTON avenue. anyway this line has bigger problems than the names of the stations
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That name choice is particularly striking given Metrolinx' overboard insistence on avoiding confusion, considering that in other cases they used odd names where confusion would be unlikely anyways, such as the on-street stops, where people would just see them as analogous to bus or streetcar stops, even for the Hurontario LRT, which is not even in Toronto.
 
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