Since they're going with Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station, that might be why the Dufferin Station on the Crosstown wouldn't be named "Vaughan Station", after the street going diagonally southeast from that intersection.
Yeah, that's the one I hate. Vaughan should have been told to grow up, and that Vaughan Centre was enough. Vaughan deserves all the ridicule it's been getting and more. They invited it themselves.
When I think metropolitan centre, I think of more like Union Station, since it is the central transit hub of the entire GTA metropolitan region of 7 million residents; not a suburb of roughly a mere 300,000 residents.
Special Metrolinx board meeting tomorrow about station names. Lebovic, Forest Hill and Fairbank were questioned by the board, and after further examination, they areonly proposing to change Lebovic to Hakimi.
Special Metrolinx board meeting tomorrow about station names. Lebovic, Forest Hill and Fairbank were questioned by the board, and after further examination, they areonly proposing to change Lebovic to Hakimi.
Since there's a Hakim Optical on the southeast corner of Bathurst and Eglinton, they could rename that one Hakimi, appeasing both the Forest Hill Metrolinx board members and the Scarborough politicians who want a stop named Hakimi.
Special Metrolinx board meeting tomorrow about station names. Lebovic, Forest Hill and Fairbank were questioned by the board, and after further examination, they areonly proposing to change Lebovic to Hakimi.
wow. I'm furious, they're keeping the old names AND changing one of them to Hakimi?
And what's with the pressure of the January 20 date? As if they're forcing the board to just accept the recommendations because they ran out of time.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who is outraged about this. I urge you all to write Mr. Prichard about this prior to the meeting: Robert.Prichard@metrolinx.com
Special Metrolinx board meeting tomorrow about station names. Lebovic, Forest Hill and Fairbank were questioned by the board, and after further examination, they areonly proposing to change Lebovic to Hakimi.
Changing Lebovic to Hakimi is about as pointless as their decision to change Bermondsey to Sloane. What does that accomplish? Meanwhile there are several other names that are quite problematic, but none of them will be changed at this point. It seems that the only station the Metrolinx board truly cares about is Forest Hill (is is it because some of them live there?). Had they considered "Forest Hill North" as a possible alternative, which is in fact the actual name of the neighbourhood and it's searchable on google maps, I think it would have made everyone happy. But alas, they were not smart enough to think of that.
