scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
No more open pit mines, unless demand justifies it.
I never advocated overbuilding stations, I just wanted a taller platform ceiling and greater attention to detail with the artwork. It really shouldn't cost that much. It would really improve the experience. Stockholm and even Montreal have done it.
As I recall the Spacing conversations were centred around the Bloor Danforth tiles because they were most at risk. Pape and Danforth and are to be significantly altered soon. Yet every station is important in the pattern and consistency of the original design. There were some calls to restore and enhance. There's no "modernization" coming for Leslie, hence no preservation discussion.
Demand never really justifies subway stations conceived by Doom level designers. I never said design/aesthetics didn't matter...I was talking about overbuilding stations and then writing off the wasted money as Good "at least it's palatial" Design. Spending a couple million on artwork or skylights is one thing, but open pit mines with mini-PATH networks to nowhere and ballroom sized mezzanines are quite another. It would be better if the ridiculously large mezzanine spaces were shifted to platform ceiling level, but it would be better still if there were no ridiculously large spaces at all.
Yes, I know what Spacing was doing. I mentioned Leslie because internet groups will pop up to support absolutely anything, and even though Spacing was recently centred on the less is more era stations, the more is more era stations like Leslie will one day receive similar Spacing treatment.