EnviroTO
Senior Member
Should we have a vote on the DRL's colour? I vote we call it the Red Line.
I would make it Orange. The TTC uses Red for surface routes on their maps and signs.
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Should we have a vote on the DRL's colour? I vote we call it the Red Line.
I would make it Orange. The TTC uses Red for surface routes on their maps and signs.
Yeah. No idea why Hurontario is relevant at all.
I agree with your colours, except the DRL should be Orange. The surface routes have, and always will be red, since that's the TTC's colour. I recommend not using the surface route colour for a rapid transit route.
Honestly I think that's the worst reason I've ever heard not to use Red for a subway. As I said, surface routes can use any colour you want, or no colour. I understand why they've used red up until this point, but adding subway lines we'll have to use Red at some point. Red is preferable to Orange for a DRL because Orange is too close to the Yellow of the YUS line.
Another reason you should be looking at the Hurontario LRT is because it's the only other rail rapid transit in the GTA so it makes sense to show it on the map, at least when Bloor-Danforth reaches Hurontario & Dundas and/or MCC. Gotta plan ahead people! Keep up!
The signage in stations has red lines on it to direct people to surface transit. All the signage across the system would need to change to be clear.
I voted Line 1 (which is actually what it is called internally). I'm a fan of the Parisian system of numbering the subway lines and lettering the regional rail lines. Obviously, the current colouring of the TTC lines should stay, but they would be generally referred to by the number.
I think the current usage of the colour yellow is already fairly effective. Some tourists (and some of my suburban friends) know the lines by their colours on the map. I was once waiting for a southbound University train at St. George and some tourists came up and asked whether this was the right platform to take "the Yellow line to Union".
The signage is already colour-coded enough that you don't even need to know the name of the line anyway.
I voted for Yonge-University, not because of cultural value, but because it distinguishes between the two sides of the line. If I'm downtown with friends, I might ask them "Are you taking the Yonge line or the University line home?" What would I ask if the line were simply called the Yellow line?
Should we have a vote on the DRL's colour? I vote we call it the Red Line.