nfitz
Superstar
That looks like a ramp, stairs, or some extension of a vertical wall (like the station box). There's more than one shown on the two corridors. The key is the colour.
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smallspy
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tmustudent9
New Member
Not sure if it's been posted anywhere on here, but they've installed the obelisks similar to the ones at Laird Station at Kennedy. Link here, and photos attached below from Reddit.
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
Forest Hill has them up now too! Sorry no picture.
turini2
Active Member
I suspect those will be fire doors (whether ones you need to open, or automatically closing ones) between Line 2 and Line 5 - given the different standards of construction at the time.
MisterF
Senior Member
Nothing in that obelisk telling people what kind of transit it's trying to identify. Is it a bus stop? A subway station? A prematurely closed SRT? Who knows!
T3G
Senior Member
I don't see that calling out the specific mode of transport is helpful.
What would be helpful is specifying what route it actually is. People who need a service will use it if it's a subway, tram, bus, rickshaw, or magnetically suspended monorail from Mars, but they need to know what route it is.
pmacpherson68
New Member
Mystery-seeds for future archeologists that dig them up out of our dusty remains…?
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fiendishlibrarian
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AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Though I am not sure if the Metrolinx's version bootstraps intelligence.
AoD
Sunnyside
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Honestly there's no way they can't just add a '5' in a circle to indicate Line 5. Maybe throw in a little tram icon or something to indicate it's a rapid transit/rail service. Assuming that top half is a digital display, of course.
reinventingthewheel
Active Member
Not saying they shouldn’t have a 5 on the sign but it’s incredibly unlikely that’s a digital display. Modular displays are suited for information that change with time, ie. next departure time, weather. There’s no modular info worthwhile to put on a display of that size relative to observed distances.
smallspy
Senior Member
Oddly enough, the same could be said about the TTC's current stop design.
And yet, people have seemed to have figured out what it's for.
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ben.thebean1
Active Member
I do think they could be bigger and more clear, but I like the obelisks. You can all start yelling at me if you want, but the modern version of London's roundel took decades to become a universally-used symbol for the underground, and later all London transit. Toronto (metrolinx) is implementing the T symbol system wide, for rail at least, so I think the argument that "nobody knows what the T means" won't be valid in 5 years
MisterF
Senior Member
Sure, people eventually figure it out but that's a pretty low bar for wayfinding.
The problem is that the Metrolinx T is used for all modes - buses, GO trains, LRT, etc. It's a generic identifier for all transit. Not at all the way that London uses the roundel.