TransitBart
Senior Member
Let me guess. Cedarvale which I'd also never heard of in my lifetime.
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Let me guess. Cedarvale which I'd also never heard of in my lifetime.
salsa
Senior Member
The lack of name recognition is further complicated by the fact that you have stations like Forest Hill that's not actually in the heart of Forest Hill. Or Leaside station which will only sit on the boundary between Leaside and a different neighbourhood.
Steve X
Senior Member
Same goes with Pioneer Village Station which is a kilometre walk from the actual site.
TransitBart
Senior Member
Honestly. I have no problem with either of those two. I get where they are exactly. Forest Hill also. Cedarvale I never heard of in my life and I am Toronto born and bred.
salsa
Senior Member
I know all of the neighbourhoods and station locations, but the same cannot be said for the vast majority of people. That's what I'm concerned about.
Hopkins123
Senior Member
So many foolish names have been chosen for these new lines and extensions, when far more obvious names using the cross intersection could have worked just fine. Yikes!
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Yeah, Cedearvale. I've only ever heard that neighborhood called "Eglinton West". It wasn't until Metrolinx brought it up that I knew what Cedarvale was.
The neighborhood is also officially recognized by the City as being called Eglinton West and Cedarvale.
I don't know why they didn't just keep the name at Eglinton West - suppose it didn't fit their magical naming criteria.
They also refuse the name Eglinton Station after the Yonge-Eglinton neighbourhood it exists in.
Dan416
Senior Member
Some of the station names on the TYSSE and on the Crosstown deserve multiple Picard face palms (which I'm too lazy to post).
EnviroTO
Senior Member
The most important thing is to not duplicate names. People plan their trips so the important part is to be able to record the station that you need to get off at. I will meet you at Yonge station becomes a pretty useless instruction and wastes time because the instruction is heard, the uniqueness is implied, and when the trip is taken or after arrival it is realized there is more than one Yonge station. So seeing the value of not having name mix-ups, I don't have any issue with the names chosen. For names like Cedarvale it will just grow the community brand awareness. For Forest Hill maybe more people will come to realize the neighborhood is named after a hill. People will see the hill on Eglinton and realize that they are driving up Forest Hill.
crs1026
Superstar
I don't mind if a few forgotten names come back to life and confuse people for a while until they get used to them. (but then, as a kid I used to skate at the Cedarvale arena.....I could find that place with my eyes closed) In five years, everyone will have adjusted. It's good for the City's sense of itself to have these old neighbourhood names brought back into common use. What's less acceptable is when we invent faux names ("The Kip District" rankles....nor was there ever a "Distillery District" on a city map) that are just an invention.
Now, Corktown..... you practically have to go back to John Graves Simcoe for that one. But it's okay, I'm hip.
- Paul
Now, Corktown..... you practically have to go back to John Graves Simcoe for that one. But it's okay, I'm hip.
- Paul
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Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
Indeed. Despite not living in Leaside, I am closer to Leaside station than 99% of Leaside.
Logic? None to be found.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Ahh! For the simpler times when SUBWAY meant only the station where the route you're on would terminate at.
Dan416
Senior Member
From a wayfinding perspective I cannot get the rationale behind trying to confuse people as to where to go with obscure names.
We're not the first system to have duplicate names. It's not a big deal, since they're on different lines. And if it really is a big deal, change the names of the stations to be unique (i.e. hyphenate as we have in the past or use a slash the way LA does).
For GO Transit, I get the "community" naming scheme and it makes sense. For local transit, as in the Crosstown, it should be street names first and foremost.
We're not the first system to have duplicate names. It's not a big deal, since they're on different lines. And if it really is a big deal, change the names of the stations to be unique (i.e. hyphenate as we have in the past or use a slash the way LA does).
For GO Transit, I get the "community" naming scheme and it makes sense. For local transit, as in the Crosstown, it should be street names first and foremost.
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
The "expert" that metrolinks hired would disagree with that and say that hyphenated names aren't good and we need everything to have a unique name. This was also the same person that came up with the signage for the pan am games
rbt
Senior Member
As much as I prefer intersection names for stations (including the line name),I found the pan am signs pretty easy to follow and found all events without difficulty so I guess no hyphenated names is the way to go.