[nfitz]

No, that portion of Thorncliffe Park Dr will be replaced with an extension of Leaside Park Dr that is now under construction to connect with the portion of Banigan Dr that will remain

Interesting. It was the connection to the north side of the tracks I was thinking of in particular. I assume there's been some planning on that.

Looking at the Official Plan, there has been lots of planning, with a half-dozen roads - but I can't find the document that this comes from.

 

[ctf5650]

None - unless Ontario no longer exists by the time the line opens in the 2050s.

(Queen-Don - really? And for the first phase? Thank god they didn't call Line 1 "Eglunion")

I was under the assumption that the "Ontario" in the name referred to the fact that the line started at Ontario Place and ended at Ontario Science Centre, both of which are now gone leaving little point behind the line's name. Queen-Don was just a suggestion for something that would make more sense for the average rider looking at a map.

 

[kotsy]

I was under the assumption that the "Ontario" in the name referred to the fact that the line started at Ontario Place and ended at Ontario Science Centre, both of which are now gone leaving little point behind the line's name. Queen-Don was just a suggestion for something that would make more sense for the average rider looking at a map.

Ontario Place is still there. The West Island is changing, but it will still be considered Ontario Place with public access around the perimeter. Arguments about whether or not the Therme plan is good is irrelevant. Trillium Park, which is also part of OP, will be untouched.

 

[nfitz]

Ontario Place is still there.

It is, but one of the first Ontario Place rebuild documents showed a subway station just across Lakeshore from Ontario Place - and the alignment has changed significantly since then.

The Ontario Science Centre to Ontario Place thing seemed more a retronym or joke to me - at the time

 

[fanoftoronto]

Thorncliffe Park Drive will be a dead end at TOC and the OMSF storage yard. Banigan Drive is being reconnected to Overlea Blvd via a Leaside Park Drive extension.

This plan isn’t conveyed well in the new render so that may be subject to change.

I can't seem to understand the plan based on the plans for the OMSF yard that's uploaded to the city website:

Banigan looks to be unconnected to any of the other roads, which makes me doubt the uploaded plan in its entirety! Leaside park Drive also seems to end at Overlea Blvd. Thorncliffe Park Drive goes further up and is one of the access roads into the OMSF.

I'm simply very confused with what I see above.

Do you happen to have a map that shows the proposed changes accurately?

 

[reinventingthewheel]

I can't seem to understand the plan based on the plans for the OMSF yard that's uploaded to the city website:
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Banigan looks to be unconnected to any of the other roads, which makes me doubt the uploaded plan in its entirety! Leaside park Drive also seems to end at Overlea Blvd. Thorncliffe Park Drive goes further up and is one of the access roads into the OMSF.

I'm simply very confused with what I see above.

Do you happen to have a map that shows the proposed changes accurately?

See here:

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[nfitz]

There's newish rendering for Don Valley station from Metrolinx at https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projec...io-line/what-were-building/don-valley-station

Here's my favourite. Blue line no more! @nightstreak !

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

So this is what, lilac?

AoD

 

[txlseries4]

There's newish rendering for Don Valley station from Metrolinx at https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projec...io-line/what-were-building/don-valley-station

Here's my favourite. Blue line no more! @nightstreak !

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Line 3 is going to mauve a lot of people!

 

[nfitz]

So this is what, lilac?

AoD

https://colors.artyclick.com/ says it's bluish purple, with the name Fuchsia Blue using the colour that Metrolinx showed last year (Hex: #7C55C7). I expect it's supposed to be Panatone 2665 C (Hex: #7D55C7).

 

[stapler]

“four subway lines, two of which are purple” is the new “seven CFL teams, two of which are the rough riders”

 

[Frankietls]

Blue is taken.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Blue is taken.
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Wait - that's just station colour, why should it prevent the line from using blue?

AoD

 

[nfitz]

“four subway lines, two of which are purple” is the new “seven CFL teams, two of which are the rough riders”

I always thought that was Pink or Magenta.

 

[JSF-1]

“four subway lines, two of which are purple” is the new “seven CFL teams, two of which are the rough riders”

What's worse is the two will be right next to each other on map legends and may even have an interchange in the future. Like I can't think of any good reason for this beyond ML not thinking this through. Like they hire these consultants and firms to create a new way-finding system yet apparently none of them raised a concern about having to purple lines so close together on a map? Like is ML just being dumb or is it the consultants who are dumb? (and ML even dumber for spending money on bottom of the barrel consulting firms)