That's what people said when they first saw the Metrolinx LRVs. It can't be grey. It's just a temporary livery till they finalized a better one and pick a colour. It is worse than the lime green shown in the early renderings.Geez Why are people here getting so worked up by a colour on a concept RENDER.... we are years away from a final decision on the colour so you foamers got plenty of time to submit your letters to ML for colour selection
This is honestly a waste of forum bandwith
The worst part about that whole ordeal was their reasoning for it, saying it would make them more like a subway and that giving them colour might make people think its a streetcar. That's the part where you would say "are you serious" only the be shell shocked by how serious they are. These are the people we put in charge of the regions transit expansion, and the recent debacle with GO RER shows they have a unique way of thinking. I wouldn't be surprised if the Hitatchi Trains for the Ontario Line loose their blue accents to be more like the TTC Subway cars... It would be really funny if the TTC keeps the red accents for the T1 replacement trains just to make this argument look even more stupid. If they had just said something like "painting trains is expensive" I would hate it because that's a typical Toronto thing, but I would understand. The actual reason however is mind blowing. Alas this is a bit off topic for this thread.
Moscow's language distinguishes between navy blue and sky blue with two equally common words, in a way that our language doesn't.
The fact that the language uses 2 completely different words to describe 2 similar colors has nothing to do with how objectively similar or dissimilar said colors are. Sky blue is to navy blue almost exactly as the bright green is to the dark green, so your argument should also apply had we used a completely different name for bright green (which we do, sometimes, i.e. "electric lime"). In spoken language the confusion of "which blue line?" is easily addressed by specifying "light/dark blue" (same with green), but looking at a map I don't think most people would confuse the colors or misuse them interchangeably. I, for one, can't imagine using lime green to denote TTC line 2.Moscow's language distinguishes between navy blue and sky blue with two equally common words, in a way that our language doesn't.
No excuse for Moscow duplicating the greens, though.
Now, back to complaining about station names.Geez Why are people here getting so worked up by a colour on a concept RENDER.... we are years away from a final decision on the colour so you foamers got plenty of time to submit your letters to ML for colour selection
This is honestly a waste of forum bandwith
I'd take the official TTC future maps (which have the Ontario line as Line 3 in SRT blue) MUCH more seriously than some Metrolinx rendersGeez Why are people here getting so worked up by a colour on a concept RENDER.... we are years away from a final decision on the colour so you foamers got plenty of time to submit your letters to ML for colour selection
This is honestly a waste of forum bandwith
There is a lot of reading here. A few of take-aways for the intersection of Don Mills and Eglinton:
I'll bet they close all of it, because the part that isn't shown as closed off, is where the new station will go, so they will definitely close that part too. Customers will get herded past the semi-sheltered bus bays and onto a big open area of concrete. At least it won't be as insane as that temporary big open lot for buses south of Kennedy Station.they havent even gotten a chance to use the bus terminal and they are already closing half of it for construction activities LOL
Building codes are provincial. Ontario (and Quebec) certainly have tighter fire standards for subways than Vancouver.
Perfect example of why several of ML's station names are ambiguous & sloppy. When I first read this, my first thought was you were referring to the streets, and was initially confused how Cosburn & Pape could be 1.1 km apart when they literally intersect each other, then realized you were referring to the stations and thought "this confusion wouldn't've happened had the [OL] station been named Danforth or Pape-Danforth".
Cosburn station will be on the west side. See the first of 2 links posted above. It's a big document, scroll to near the bottom to see the section on Cosburn.