[nfitz]

I really can't see the name falling into regular use. 20 years later, people still call it the SkyDome. I still call Sheppard West Downsview, will still call it Eglinton West, and will still call it Dundas. No new fangled names for me, thanks

So then, why would you call it Dundas, and not Wilton?

 

[ARG1]

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:

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/ttc/bgrd/backgroundfile-255258.pdf

From said report:

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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:

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If we can spend time and money renaming this station, but we can't spend that money to install PSDs as part of the Bloor-Yonge expansion project, the TTC will have lost all hope.

 

[T3G]

So then, why would you call it Dundas, and not Wilton?

Dundas Station was never called Wilton.

As for the street, a liiiil bit before my time.

 

[nfitz]

Dundas Station was never called Wilton.

As for the street, a liiiil bit before my time.

So ... you are telling me that the name Dundas Street has fallen into regular usage?

So will the new station name - whatever it may be. Over our dead bodies perhaps.

 

[Mihairokov]

Lots of negativity here for what is an otherwise simple renaming to something which I assume the school will encourage to abbreviate as TMU Station. There are very long station names throughout the world and people seem to get by regardless.

Variations of the same name (Dundas, Dundas West) are worse, IMO, depending on circumstance.

 

[nfitz]

Lots of negativity here for what is an otherwise simple renaming to something which I assume the school will encourage to abbreviate as TMU Station. There are very long station names throughout the world and people seem to get by regardless.

What do long station names have to do with this? Read the report.

This will be the station with just about the shortest name in Toronto.

TMU station

 

[Mihairokov]

What do long station names have to do with this? Read the report.

This will be the station with just about the shortest name in Toronto.

TMU station

My post was in reference to the below:

Toronto Metropolitan University station would be analogous, but would also be I think the longest TTC subway station name ever.

 

[T3G]

So ... you are telling me that the name Dundas Street has fallen into regular usage?

So will the new station name - whatever it may be. Over our dead bodies perhaps.

I expect the children of today will end up using the new name, but few people who were sentient at any time of it being called Dundas.

What do long station names have to do with this? Read the report.

This will be the station with just about the shortest name in Toronto.

TMU station

TMU might be the acronym, but surely that's not going to be what is used on the displays or station walls, is it? I don't see how an acronym is better than having two stations with the word Dundas in them, it doesn't help anyone who is not a local orient themselves.

 

[PL1]

But with TMU Station, they can try to get a Temu sponsorship...

(I think TMU Station would be fine, as long as it's not the whole name.)

 

[evandyk]

Rode the 504 westbound this morning and there was no backup at the Queen/Church/Richmond area. It took just over six minutes to go from Queen and Church to Yonge and Richmond, which is roughly as fast as walking, but traffic could not be blamed.

 

[nfitz]

TMU might be the acronym, but surely that's not going to be what is used on the displays or station walls, is it? I don't see how an acronym is better than having two stations with the word Dundas in them, it doesn't help anyone who is not a local orient themselves.

The report says the name of the station will be simply "TMU".

3 letters. There's no mention of it being any longer. https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.TTC4.10
https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.TTC4.10



The Board could easily choose any name under the sun - but this is what the agreement is. And this is the proposed decision

 

[nfitz]

Rode the 504 westbound this morning and there was no backup at the Queen/Church/Richmond area. It took just over six minutes to go from Queen and Church to Yonge and Richmond, which is roughly as fast as walking, but traffic could not be blamed.

Are there really no stops at Adelaide/Church or Richmond/Church? Given the stops on King (and Wellington for the 503), I don't know why one has to walk all the way up to Queen to catch a streetcar.

 

[Jonny5]

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.

To be pedantic for fun, there are no stations with "Center" in their names.
There are however three stations with "Centre" in their names.

 

[Jonny5]

Are there really no stops at Adelaide/Church or Richmond/Church? Given the stops on King (and Wellington for the 503), I don't know why one has to walk all the way up to Queen to catch a streetcar.

There are no stops at Adelaide/Church. That was a deliberate choice, but it was contemplated only for the 501 diversion, so no one was thinking about this scenario when planning that out.

There is a stop for southbound only on Church at Richmond, which is essentially the westbound stop relocated from Queen and Church.

 

[T3G]

The report says the name of the station will be simply "TMU".

3 letters. There's no mention of it being any longer. https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.TTC4.10
https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.TTC4.10



The Board could easily choose any name under the sun - but this is what the agreement is. And this is the proposed decision

Yikes. What a horrifyingly stupid decision. They might as well go all out and rename York University to YU, Vaughan Metropolitan Centre to VMC, St. George to SG, etc.

But hey, it's all good because now we won't have two Dundases.