[Hopkins123]

If I may, what's wrong with naming the stations with name duplication like this?



Original name with the cross street as a subheading. This would seem to resolve a lot of issues. Is Metrolinx or the TTC paying attention?

 

[salsa]

If I may, what's wrong with naming the stations with name duplication like this?

Original name with the cross street as a subheading. This would seem to resolve a lot of issues. Is Metrolinx or the TTC paying attention?

The subheadings are of little use because they are not shown on the subway map or heard on the stop announcements. Aside from the platform signage, it's still gonna be just "Forest Hill" or "Leaside", with no mention of the cross streets.

 

[howl]

Real estate agents must be pretty ecstatic that Forest Hill has expanded to Bathurst & Eglinton.

Historically that is correct though. The original village core was on Spadina but the boundaries of the village included the lands on three of the four quadrants of Bathurst and Eglinton. Both entrance buildings at Bathusrt are technically within the boundaries of the former Village of Forest Hill. Chaplin Station could also have been called Forest Hill since it is within the old village boundaries too. In fact, the fire hall which will become one of the entrances was the original Forest Hill fire and police station.

 

[Johnny Au]

Oh, and Cedarvale station (the original 1978 structure known as Eglinton West) would be completely within Forest Hill's original boundaries.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

The Keele station on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT Line has had a couple of names presented that I don't fancy. Silverthorne is now Keelesdale

I'm guessing Tretheway is being reserved for use on the Jane LRT line. Guess there will be a "Denison" station (Tretheway gets renamed Denison west of Jane Street) somewhere under Metrolinx's influence.

 

[Hopkins123]

"Trethewey" is unique sounding too. What are the brain-trust at Metrolinx/TTC thinking overlooking an obvious name choice for a more tacky sounding "Keelesdale". The intersection is Trethewey and Eglinton after all. It'd be good too to have a subway station start with the letter T.

I think Metrolinx should put up a poll on their Crosstown website and have the public help narrow down station names. What connection is Sunnybrook to Leslie St more so than to Bayview, for example? I think the public is smarter than this. Just think after decades of the misnamed "Downsview" we're finally seeing a renamed "Sheppard West" station as it should have been named in the first place.

 

[Johnny Au]

Good thing about automated voice announcements, because the pronunciation of "Trethewey" may vary between individuals.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Just call it Trethewey. Naming it after the street the line intersects makes so much more sense than any other option.

 

[Palma]

Just call it Trethewey. Naming it after the street the line intersects makes so much more sense than any other option.

Or calling it Keele as thats the names south of Eglinton and Keele north makes that turn (and for some reason that small section is called Gore or something like which makes no sense) and then intersects Trethewey as it curves again. The name Tretheway should end at the point Keele hits it. Trethewey conjures up murder, drugs, etc. When you hear Trethewey in the news its never good

 

[howl]

"Trethewey" is unique sounding too. What are the brain-trust at Metrolinx/TTC thinking overlooking an obvious name choice for a more tacky sounding "Keelesdale". The intersection is Trethewey and Eglinton after all. It'd be good too to have a subway station start with the letter T.

I think Metrolinx should put up a poll on their Crosstown website and have the public help narrow down station names. What connection is Sunnybrook to Leslie St more so than to Bayview, for example? I think the public is smarter than this. Just think after decades of the misnamed "Downsview" we're finally seeing a renamed "Sheppard West" station as it should have been named in the first place.

I think "Leaside" for the station at Bayview was alright seeing as the commercial core of Leaside is just south of there, and "Laird" is a unique name. The station at Leslie should be called "Sunnybrook Park".

 

[howl]

Or calling it Keele as thats the names south of Eglinton and Keele north makes that turn (and for some reason that small section is called Gore or something like which makes no sense) and then intersects Trethewey as it curves again. The name Tretheway should end at the point Keele hits it. Trethewey conjures up murder, drugs, etc. When you hear Trethewey in the news its never good

Can't call it "Keele" because there is already a Keele subway station on the Bloor-Danforth line. I personally like "Thethewey". You can't avoid using a certain name just because some people currently associated it with bad things. In ten years the name may have a totally different connotation.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

I think "Leaside" for the station at Bayview was alright seeing as the commercial core of Leaside is just south of there, and "Laird" is a unique name. The station at Leslie should be called "Sunnybrook Park".

Well, Leaside has made an interesting appropriation of South Bayview then.

That should be the actual name of the station, 'South Bayview Station'.

(Or, rename the Sheppard line station into Bayview Village and just call this one Bayview)

 

[Anna]

"Trethewey" is unique sounding too. What are the brain-trust at Metrolinx/TTC thinking overlooking an obvious name choice for a more tacky sounding "Keelesdale". The intersection is Trethewey and Eglinton after all. It'd be good too to have a subway station start with the letter T.

I think Metrolinx should put up a poll on their Crosstown website and have the public help narrow down station names. What connection is Sunnybrook to Leslie St more so than to Bayview, for example? I think the public is smarter than this. Just think after decades of the misnamed "Downsview" we're finally seeing a renamed "Sheppard West" station as it should have been named in the first place.

They didn't put up a poll, but they did ask 'the public'. That's where some of the revised station names came from.
https://www.metrolinxengage.com/en/engagement-initiatives/eglinton-crosstown-lrt-station-names
https://www.metrolinxengage.com/en/...s/eglinton-crosstown-lrt-station-names-part-2

One of the comments re Sunnybrook Park came from John Parker, I assume the former councillor.

"Sunnybrook Park" in and of itself is a perfectly fine name, and it describes its location.
BUT
Sunnybrook Hospital is more widely recognized as a landmark and it is nowhere nearby.
Further, the hospital is likely to be the destination of people (a) in a state of panic and/or (b) who are visiting patients but are not familiar with the area. I wonder if a lot of people would assume that Sunnybrook hospital would be in the vicinity of Sunnybrook Park and head to the wrong Crosstown station as a result.

Also the 'support' for 'Leaside' station broke down as follows:

Strongly like - 46 votes
Like - 22 votes
Neutral - 10 votes
Dislike - 30 votes
Strongly dislike - 33 votes

Total votes = 141
Like 68
Dislike 63

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Can't call it "Keele" because there is already a Keele subway station on the Bloor-Danforth line. I personally like "Thethewey". You can't avoid using a certain name just because some people currently associated it with bad things. In ten years the name may have a totally different connotation.

I've never associated Trethewey with crime. I've only ever thought that it as being one of the best sounding street names in Toronto

 

[TheTigerMaster]

I really would like to know how much money Metrolinx has spent on these station naming consultants. Hiring outside consultants to tell you how to name stations seems a little ridiculous to me. And I can't help but feel that if the TTC did the same, it would stir up quite the controversy.