Thank god they came up with a civilised name. I was afraid they were gonna Sankofa this up too. Canada in recent years has been importing this weird fascination in the US of naming places way more complicated than it needs to be.

I’m still trying to figure out what a “transit hub” even is. Outside the US, nobody uses this term.
 
I wish we had straightened the line out more. There are a lot of turns on the OL. Trains want to go straight. Will be a lot of screeching around corners at lower speeds
 
6ixGod said:
Thank god they came up with a civilised name. I was afraid they were gonna Sankofa this up too. Canada in recent years has been importing this weird fascination in the US of naming places way more complicated than it needs to be.

I’m still trying to figure out what a “transit hub” even is. Outside the US, nobody uses this term.
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I think "Don Valley" is marginally OK, but it's so generic and non-specific it borders on useless. A valley is a long geographical feature, and you have 1 station called this. How would anyone know intuitively where it is?

Personally I really hate Metrolinx using their train station naming methodology on subway stations or LRTs. Local routes should be named after the road(s) they cross first of all and only alternative names when it's really necessary.
 
6ixGod said:
I’m still trying to figure out what a “transit hub” even is. Outside the US, nobody uses this term.
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It really doesn't take a lot of imagination to figure out the answer to this. The name pretty much describes itself.

I am concerned that any person who might be confused by a place being called a transit hub should not be allowed in society without a guardian.
 
nfitz said:
Is this a problem that people in the real world talk about - or just us transit geeks?
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hawc said:
You transit geeks.
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Nope, it should be common sense not to name any stop on a given line after the street along which it runs, only after streets it intersects (using a compound name like Sheppard–Yonge if needed). Otherwise, all stops on line 5 might as well be called Eglinton, leaving it to riders (especially those not familiar with the city and its respective transit agencies' love for playing mind games with the public) to figure out which stop they need. On a more serious note, "Yonge" should absolutely be included somewhere in the name of the station in question (obviously the most correct choice would be Eglinton–Yonge, just like Bloor–Yonge and Sheppard–Yonge).
 
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81-717 said:
Nope, it should be common sense not to name any stop on a given line after the street along which it runs, only after streets it intersects (using a compound name like Sheppard–Yonge if needed). Otherwise, all stops on line 5 might as well be called Eglinton, leaving it to riders (especially those not familiar with the city and its respective transit agencies' love for playing mind games with the public) to figure out which stop they need. On a more serious note, "Yonge" should absolutely be included somewhere in the name of the station in question (obviously the most correct choice would be Eglinton–Yonge, just like Bloor–Yonge and Sheppard–Yonge).
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It's so blindingly obvious.

Although I hear people who ride line 1 refer to the station at Bloor as Yonge station--lol. And I know they mean Bloor station, or Bloor-Yonge station. But the signage at the station still uses Bloor on the Yonge platforms, and Yonge on the Bloor platforms. If Metrolinx didn't want to bother having to redo the Eglinton lines on the Yonge platform, the very least they could have done was name the Eglinton platforms as either Yonge or Eglinton-Yonge (to be consistent with Sheppard-Yonge and Bloor-Yonge). The fact that they haven't is just incredibly stupid beyond belief. Nearly Trumpian in its stupidity.
 
In regards to the recurring Eglinton station naming debate, I can't for round 2, with the Line 2/Ontario Line interchange. :)
 
Is there a way to pull up architectural drawings for the Ontario Line? I'm fascinated with the complexity of Queen Station and trying to understand how everything is going to fit down there. I assumed that Metrolinx would've had to obtain permits from the City of Toronto (a mere formality I know) but I can't find any documents to download on Toronto.ca
 
nightstreak said:
Is there a way to pull up architectural drawings for the Ontario Line? I'm fascinated with the complexity of Queen Station and trying to understand how everything is going to fit down there. I assumed that Metrolinx would've had to obtain permits from the City of Toronto (a mere formality I know) but I can't find any documents to download on Toronto.ca
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Check here: https://www.toronto.ca/city-governm...information-centre/#location=&lat=&lng=&zoom=

cc @Northern Light
 
Piling update at Yonge and Queen.

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