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TheTigerMaster said:
There's new rendering of the stations at about 1:06 in the video: link
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It looks pretty good, although a bit sad to see that less of the Mt Pleasant historic building will be preserved than previous renderings indicated. But hey, can't complain about a new subway for Toronto.
 
I guess the Metrolinx board members have more common sense than the people who were coming up with the names. I hope common sense prevails in the end.
 
CDL.TO said:
Type "Forest Hill" in to Google Maps and it will include "Forest Hill North". "Forest Hill North" is a subset of the "Forest Hill" neighbourhood, not a separate, exclusive neighbourhood.
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The area north and west of Bathurst/Eglinton was indeed part of the old Town of Forest Hill. If one were pedantic, one would use the old municipal boundary as the dividing line for the name. Forest Hill was absorbed into Toronto in 1967, and that boundary was pretty arbitrary and not intuitive. The realtors have done a good job of adjusting the consensual boundary to make everyone happy.

The original commercial centre of Forest Hill was south on Spadina, In my youth, locals referred to it as 'The Village'. There is more commerce up on Eglinton these days. I Guess names move around. But really.....are we going to rename Yonge/Bloor to Yorkville ? I hope not.

- Paul
 
I feel like 99% of people don't care about the name of the stations and it's 100% a waste of money to even waste time getting public input for station names. Over time any name that is chosen will just become the "norm". Is this something that is required to be done for transit projects or this just some type of community outreach approach to make the stations more a part of the community fabric?
 
BMO said:
I feel like 99% of people don't care about the name of the stations and it's 100% a waste of money to even waste time getting public input for station names. Over time any name that is chosen will just become the "norm". Is this something that is required to be done for transit projects or this just some type of community outreach approach to make the stations more a part of the community fabric?
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We've already tried this experiment. 50 years after the University Line opened people still don't know where Osgoode, St. Andrew or St. Patrick Stations are located, as was pointed out by the Metrolinx board. There's no reason to expect things to be different with Eglinton Line. These station names will never become the "norm". If selected, Torontonians will be asking "what intersection is Forest Hill Station" as long as these stations exist.
 
Why can't we just name them by the major cross streets and be done? When you are giving directions it's just Bathurst (on Line 2 or on Line 5). Done.

I hate to agree with them, (since they sounded so clueless in those quotes) but I've lived at Yonge/College for 7 years (and Sherbourne/Wellesley for 6 years before that) but I still can't make St. Andrew vs. St. Patrick stick. I just know they're those King or Queen equivalents.
 
Cobra said:
I hope they rebrand the Yonge Line station (Eglinton-Yonge).
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I sent an email to Metrolinx about this, and it felt silly, but nonetheless, here's the gist of it.

I strongly dislike the idea of naming the proposed Eglinton-Crosstown station at Yonge and Eglinton as just "Eglinton". I strongly believe the original name of Eglinton-Yonge is much more intuitive. I have applied Metrolinx's 5 station naming principles to this situation to give weight to this:
  1. Simple: While "Eglinton" is the most simple name, "Eglinton-Yonge" adds minimal complexity.
  2. Logical: It also follows the same naming convention as Bloor-Yonge and Sheppard-Yonge stations, which are similar interchange stations. Furthermore, it is confusing that "Eglinton" station would be on the Eglinton Crosstown line along Eglinton Avenue.
  3. Durable: There will likely never be another area in the GTHA that refers to an intersection of streets or other features named Eglinton and Yonge.
  4. Self-Locating: Optimal station name are associated with a cross street, neighbourhood or landmark, but "long streets can be inefficient at self-locating." "Eglinton-Yonge" is at Eglinton and Yonge in Toronto; you can't get better at pinpointing the station location than that. "Eglinton" is inefficient at self-locating because "Eglinton" could be anywhere along Eglinton Avenue, which stretches from Kingston Road in Scarborough in the east, to Highway 407 in Mississauga in the west. In fact, "Eglinton" is already a placeholder name for the Hurontario-Main LRT in Mississauga.
  5. Unique: See Points 2 to 4 above. There is no other area referred to as Eglinton and Yonge.
 
ndawgg said:
Why can't we just name them by the major cross streets and be done? When you are giving directions it's just Bathurst (on Line 2 or on Line 5). Done.

I hate to agree with them, (since they sounded so clueless in those quotes) but I've lived at Yonge/College for 7 years (and Sherbourne/Wellesley for 6 years before that) but I still can't make St. Andrew vs. St. Patrick stick. I just know they're those King or Queen equivalents.
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That's true, I know the transit system well but even I get St. Patrick, Osgoode and St. Andrew confused every now and again.
 
DonValleyRainbow said:
I sent an email to Metrolinx about this, and it felt silly, but nonetheless, here's the gist of it.

I strongly dislike the idea of naming the proposed Eglinton-Crosstown station at Yonge and Eglinton as just "Eglinton". I strongly believe the original name of Eglinton-Yonge is much more intuitive. I have applied Metrolinx's 5 station naming principles to this situation to give weight to this:
  1. Simple: While "Eglinton" is the most simple name, "Eglinton-Yonge" adds minimal complexity.
  2. Logical: It also follows the same naming convention as Bloor-Yonge and Sheppard-Yonge stations, which are similar interchange stations. Furthermore, it is confusing that "Eglinton" station would be on the Eglinton Crosstown line along Eglinton Avenue.
  3. Durable: There will likely never be another area in the GTHA that refers to an intersection of streets or other features named Eglinton and Yonge.
  4. Self-Locating: Optimal station name are associated with a cross street, neighbourhood or landmark, but "long streets can be inefficient at self-locating." "Eglinton-Yonge" is at Eglinton and Yonge in Toronto; you can't get better at pinpointing the station location than that. "Eglinton" is inefficient at self-locating because "Eglinton" could be anywhere along Eglinton Avenue, which stretches from Kingston Road in Scarborough in the east, to Highway 407 in Mississauga in the west. In fact, "Eglinton" is already a placeholder name for the Hurontario-Main LRT in Mississauga.
  5. Unique: See Points 2 to 4 above. There is no other area referred to as Eglinton and Yonge.
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You missed the fact that Yonge-Eglinton Centre is just outside, and is connected to, the station.
 
DonValleyRainbow said:
I sent an email to Metrolinx about this, and it felt silly, but nonetheless, here's the gist of it.

I strongly dislike the idea of naming the proposed Eglinton-Crosstown station at Yonge and Eglinton as just "Eglinton". I strongly believe the original name of Eglinton-Yonge is much more intuitive. I have applied Metrolinx's 5 station naming principles to this situation to give weight to this:
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I'm pretty sure it's the TTC who is in charge of naming interchange stations, because those stations encompass existing TTC infrastructure. Eglinton West station is being renamed to Cedarvale because the TTC said so, not Metrolinx. Therefore you should be emailing the TTC.
 
DonValleyRainbow said:
I sent an email to Metrolinx about this, and it felt silly, but nonetheless, here's the gist of it.

I strongly dislike the idea of naming the proposed Eglinton-Crosstown station at Yonge and Eglinton as just "Eglinton". I strongly believe the original name of Eglinton-Yonge is much more intuitive. I have applied Metrolinx's 5 station naming principles to this situation to give weight to this:
  1. Simple: While "Eglinton" is the most simple name, "Eglinton-Yonge" adds minimal complexity.
  2. Logical: It also follows the same naming convention as Bloor-Yonge and Sheppard-Yonge stations, which are similar interchange stations. Furthermore, it is confusing that "Eglinton" station would be on the Eglinton Crosstown line along Eglinton Avenue.
  3. Durable: There will likely never be another area in the GTHA that refers to an intersection of streets or other features named Eglinton and Yonge.
  4. Self-Locating: Optimal station name are associated with a cross street, neighbourhood or landmark, but "long streets can be inefficient at self-locating." "Eglinton-Yonge" is at Eglinton and Yonge in Toronto; you can't get better at pinpointing the station location than that. "Eglinton" is inefficient at self-locating because "Eglinton" could be anywhere along Eglinton Avenue, which stretches from Kingston Road in Scarborough in the east, to Highway 407 in Mississauga in the west. In fact, "Eglinton" is already a placeholder name for the Hurontario-Main LRT in Mississauga.
  5. Unique: See Points 2 to 4 above. There is no other area referred to as Eglinton and Yonge.
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Brad Ross claims the TTC wants to move away from hyphenated names. If they could rename Bloor-Yonge, they'd call it Bloor...
 
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