Urban Shocker
Doyenne
But Chewbacca, being a visual symbol, is universal.
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grey
Senior Member
They've hired architects to do an interior designer's job. I bet Brian Gluckstein wouldn't have botched the signage.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Once you allow rogue benefactors to dictate the look of the TTC's stations - as they've done here, and will do at other stations that they deem in need of their ministrations - anything is possible.
duper
Active Member
I can't understand what this huge fuss is about.
The visibility is not really a huge deal. 1) Assuming no train is on the opposite track, the "Museum" will clearly be visible on the opposing wall; 2) All stations are announced...twice; 3) the new trains will indicate with electronic signs exactly where you are.
It's distinctiveness will also work in its favour. Locals who pay no attention to the announcements will know where they are from the look....visitors, on the other hand, will listen to the stupid announcements, read the map, and watch the stupid signs.
Sheesh.
The visibility is not really a huge deal. 1) Assuming no train is on the opposite track, the "Museum" will clearly be visible on the opposing wall; 2) All stations are announced...twice; 3) the new trains will indicate with electronic signs exactly where you are.
It's distinctiveness will also work in its favour. Locals who pay no attention to the announcements will know where they are from the look....visitors, on the other hand, will listen to the stupid announcements, read the map, and watch the stupid signs.
Sheesh.
CDL.TO
Moderator
Who ever said it was a HUGE fuss?
All that's being debated is whether things should be as easy to use as possible or if things being only fairly easy will suffice. When it comes to a transit system, you need to think of the needs of the deaf, the hard-of-seeing, and foreign visitors and this unfortunately seems to have been forgotten by the station designers.
All that's being debated is whether things should be as easy to use as possible or if things being only fairly easy will suffice. When it comes to a transit system, you need to think of the needs of the deaf, the hard-of-seeing, and foreign visitors and this unfortunately seems to have been forgotten by the station designers.
smuncky
Senior Member
luckily, i can understand both
DENTROBATE54
Banned
I've heard Pape will be the first non-terminii BD stop to deviate from the bathroom tile format very soon. Eventually artitects want to recreate it with a rocky outcrop appearence (think: mezzanine level at Wilson Stn).
This is a pity since many people don't realize the science behind the BD colour scheme. The sequence of yellow-green-white-orange-grey is deliberate as a means of telling time (i.e. the distance between one yellow stn and the next is roughly 5-7 mins). I'm all for modernity but they could at least spare some of the original look instead of in effect creating a rock wall in a sea of tiled, colour-coded stations.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
The Rogue Benefactors. Coming soon to a station near you. Where will they strike next?
junctionist
Senior Member
Joe Clark has spoken out vehemently against that, and he's right. Once you change one station's tiles on the Bloor Danforth line that radically, then the pattern is broken and you might as well change other stations. Good bye heritage.
TKTKTK
Senior Member
urbandreamer
recession proof
Chewbacca Stn is where my shoebaca shall live
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
More correctly, I suppose it should be Chew Chew Chewbacca Stn.
ganjavih
Senior Member
Choo choo choose the train!
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
I checked out the ROM's original Chewy yesterday afternoon in the Canada: First Peoples gallery. He's a late-19th century house post, Oweekeno, from the Northwest Coast of BC.
RedRocket191
Senior Member
Sounds like they want to recreate this:
(Stockholm Subway)
I would support breaking the consistency of the Bloor-Danfroth line if we were going to redo them like Stockholm Tunnelbana stations.