PL1
Senior Member
I fixed it, I hope! Anyways, kinda poor planning, probably this is in part due to deferred maintenance, etc, etc. It will be a frustrating summer
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JamesKoole
Active Member
Good news too - CafeTO blocks are going in on Queen and Kingston Road. Gridlock is back in the east end.
Mihairokov
Active Member
It will certainly be faster to grab a bikeshare and bike down either Adelaide or Richmond. It's currently faster anyway under a lot of circumstances.
I don't envision traffic wardens being able to help streetcars turn much at these intersections. From my experience at Queen & Church, the cars are cumbersome turning and need a lot of free space in order to do so. There simply isn't enough of it at this intersection for Queen cars, let alone adding King cars into the fray. Travel times through the core will be unworkable. A solution, of course, could be found in traffic management writ large, but the city seems afraid of upsetting motorists who like speeding along Richmond and Adelaide at most hours, and along Church and others at select hours.
Northern Light
Superstar
A last minute add-on to the agenda for this week's TTC meeting is a tentative deal with TMU to rename Dundas Station at their expense, to TMU Station.
Report here:
From said report:
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A further attachment looks into proposed Transit Innovation Yard, through their DMZ Unit.
Some highlights from the above:
Report here:
From said report:
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A further attachment looks into proposed Transit Innovation Yard, through their DMZ Unit.
Some highlights from the above:
bearcat
Active Member
Sure why not, if TMU actually pays the whole cost. Then we can leave Dundas West alone lmao. There was another thread with multiple posts discussing the confusion between the two
. Though if I am being honest perhaps Dundas West would still be a potentially confusing name in the absence of Dundas Station, just less so.nfitz
Superstar
Or would it be a more confusing name in the absence of a Dundas stop.
TTC has until 2033 to rename Dundas West.
TTC has until 2033 to rename Dundas West.
bearcat
Active Member
Why 2033?
Jonny5
Senior Member
That's when World War III happens and we get the nuclear holocaust.
Fortunately, there will be some survivours, one of which will go on 30 years later to create the first warp drive ship which will happen to launch right at the moment when... well IYKYK. I can't tell more cause temporal prime directive and all.
Richard White
Senior Member
Time to invoke the buddy system
81-717
Active Member
AFAIK there are 3 stations with "Center" in their names – Scarborough Town Center (STC), North York Center (NY(C)C) and Vaughan Metropolitan Center (VMC) – but AFAIK none of them have their respective acronyms engraved in the station walls. If we're drawing parallels, a better example is YorkU, also named after its respective university.
Incidentally, it'll be the final year of service for the T1s in the best case scenario, but I don't see why it would have anything to do with renaming stations.
bearcat
Active Member
Toronto Metropolitan University station would be analogous, but would also be I think the longest TTC subway station name ever.
nfitz
Superstar
It's in the report we are discussing - https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/ttc/bgrd/backgroundfile-255258.pdf
In December 2023, the city directed the TTC to:
T3G
Senior Member
Not sure which I find more exasperating - renaming the station to something as long and unwieldy as TMU, or the fact that they need 10 years to rename 2 stations!!!
Northern Light
Superstar
So you're saying the report writer back then knew about World War III and insisted on getting this done first? Good to know.
ethan.l.cecc
Active Member
The name is not surprising at all, it was the most obvious choice
More interesting is the Transit Innovation Yard, the TTC is certainly realizing just how much they can work with TMU. They also have an annual "Social Policy Challenge" where student teams develop proposals addressing various social issues the TTC and Toronto face (e.g. accessibility, affordability, homelessness), so this innovation lab will really cement that relationship.
More interesting is the Transit Innovation Yard, the TTC is certainly realizing just how much they can work with TMU. They also have an annual "Social Policy Challenge" where student teams develop proposals addressing various social issues the TTC and Toronto face (e.g. accessibility, affordability, homelessness), so this innovation lab will really cement that relationship.
A further attachment looks into proposed Transit Innovation Yard, through their DMZ Unit.
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/ttc/bgrd/backgroundfile-255259.pdf
Some highlights from the above:
