Sorry for the late reply @devvydoesstuff
Great, two purple lines
I mean, we have 2 green lines as well (Kitchener and BD)
They are two very different shades of purple. Many cities have different shades of the same colour, as there's only so many colours in the spectrum. Line 4 is not dissimilar to the Metropolitan line in London, while this purple is closer to the Elizabeth line.
Yes, there are only so many colors on the spectrum, and only so many lines being built in Toronto, and one extra color became available after 2023 that would've been a smoother transition from line 2 green to line 4 purple, yet for some reason they still changed their mind about reusing it. Toronto doesn't exactly have that many lines that would require using 2 or more different shades of the same/adjacent color(s), unlike Moscow for example (line 2 dark green, line 10 bright green, line 3 dark blue, line 4 light blue).
Worth noting I guess that this could be considered a linguistic difference, since in Russian, "Dark Blue" and "Light Blue" are considered to be 2 wholly separate colours: "синий (sinyiy)" and "голубой (goluboy)"
It's not merely a linguistic issue, it's a scientific fact that blue & cyan are not in fact merely lighter & darker shades of the same color, cyan is in fact a mix of blue & green despite appearing simply "light blue".
Yea except we have the old Scarborough RT cyan sitting there vacant.
It's way too close to the darker cyan they are already using in Line 10 signage.
I doubt red will ever get used by the TTC since they use it for the buses and streetcars. Gray and Turquiose are somehow still up in the air because Metrolinx somehow still hasn't decided on the Finch West LRT colour. It appears gray on TTC maps, Magenta on Metrolinx's website, and yet has turquoise accents at the stations, so which one is it. We've known since construction started on the Crosstown it would be Orange, so why is there 3 competing colours for the Finch Line? Brown could go to the EELRT if we stick with the Transit City colour schemes. Pink is also a colour that may pop up at some point (Jane Street maybe?)
I don't think this should ultimately matter considering both the TTC and GO operate lines that share Green and Orange as colours. In fact Metrolinx will own both Orange Lines (Milton GO and Line 5).
I don't see how that has any relevance given they aren't branded as subways, nor are the GO lines numbered.
They should really switch to gray for those services, and use actual colors (including red) for whatever lines they wanna include on the subway map.
I don't mind line 10 being whichever color, including the purple they wanna use for 3, but the 3 really should be SRT blue. And it's news to me that they're already worrying about what color line 10 would be when I've never heard of lines 7, 8, and 9 even having started construction, not to mention not being familiar with what lines 8/9 are supposed to be. I must be totally out of the loop there.
The Don Mills branch to Mississauga?? Are they planning to build a giant loop over the top of the city after extending the DM branch to Sheppard or Steeles? The western branch would be far closer to extend to Mississauga regardless.
TTC has already shown the colours of Line 7 and 8 on various documents. But there's certainly nothing happening, other than the continuing City consultation for Line 7 - which we've been discussing here at length since it got it's EA approved when Miller was mayor.
We've discussed it this in this thread, with images. The mapping showed it heading to the 407, along the transitway alignment, then south to Pearson and then Kipling station. No extension west of Exhibition was shown (though I assume it's inevitable).