Markster
Senior Member
I like the idea behind this, but in practice, the next station north is going to be across the street from "East York Town Centre", and that is a recipe for confusion.
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Mihairokov
Senior Member
Thorncliffe Park Station is across the street from East York Town Centre, whereas Cosburn Station is across the street from East York Community Centre.
Perhaps Fletcher can amend her item to propose East York North Station and East York South Station.
StreetcarRider
Active Member
Or perhaps East York Metropolitan Centre I and East York Metropolitan Centre II?
Anyway, regarding potential confusion, the old East York city hall (now East York Civic Centre) still exists and is not on the Ontario Line at all ...
Transit
New Member
East York Town Centre is going to be redeveloped by its owner, Morguard, and the property's name will be changed.
TossYourJacket
Senior Member
As someone who has argued for that exact naming scheme many times on UT, I'd normally agree, but in this case I'd argue that under that logic, we rename Pape to "Greektown", and Pape/Cosburn to "Pape Village". (These are my personal preferred names for those stations, for whatever bias that has) East York is a whole borough, not a neighborhood. It's like if we named the new station at McCowan and Progress "Scarborough" instead of Scarborough Centre"
Maybe "Old East York" could work but that's the closest I think it should get to the councilor's suggestion. But I'd argue that would make more sense for a station near Coxwell than Pape, due to the location of East York Civic Centre.
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lastcommodore
Active Member
perhaps even worse, imagine if we named a station all the way in the south of scarborough, nowhere near scarborough centre, "scarborough"
Transit
New Member
Pape Avenue is very likely to be the only street in the old Township of East York, which predates the larger Borough by over 40 years, to ever receive a subway station.
If not Pape and Cosburn as East York Station, there will never be an East York Station.
nfitz
Superstar
Good. I can't imagine why either Pape or Cosburn aren't good, clear, simple names. Greentown has been slowly dissipating for years ... as these communities tend to do.
81-717
Active Member
Pape is no longer good enough for the same reason why Queen, Bloor, Eglinton & Sheppard are no longer good enough since L2/3/4/5 became a thing.
PL1
Senior Member
Pape doesn't have a station on any of those other lines
81-717
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nfitz
Superstar
I guess that's why Queen is being renamed.
Gerrard station isn't on Pape. It's centred over-top of Gerrard/Carlaw, two blocks from Pape. If it was east-west it might arguably reach Pape, but it's on a 45° angle, and more to the west than east. There isn't even a convenient entrance towards Pape (and Gerrard Square either).
81-717
Active Member
Is it? That's news to me. And i bet it definitely won't be Queen-Yonge.I guess that's why Queen is being renamed.
nfitz
Superstar
I'm going to stop using smiley's when I'm making jokes.
We talk about the Bloor Subway, aka the Danforth Subway the Yonge Subway, the Sheppard Subway and the University Subway. Little surprise that Sheppard and Bloor stations got hyphenated. No one is talking about a Pape Subway or a Queen Subway - at least not in the real world.