Transportfan
Senior Member
This is Downsview park station. Why don't you think that it's on Sheppard? If this isn't on Sheppard, then most of the Bloor stations aren't on Bloor (they run just north of it instead of under it) and many of the Yonge line stations aren't on Yonge (they run to the side of Yonge).
That's precisely the reason Downsview Park shouldn't be called Sheppard West. Subway stops are named after the street they cross, not which streets they run along or under.
The original working name of the station "Downsview Park" was Sheppard West so I don't see why it's obvious that it doesn't "deserve" the name...
When the extension was first proposed, the TTC hadn't thought of how to deal with it yet.
An interesting note: When Downsview station was first built, the TTC didn't want to call it Sheppard West because it was expected that the Sheppard line was going to be extended west in the not-to-distant future, so they wanted a neutral name for the eventual interchange station. But as the years went by and the Sheppard extension seemed less likely, and the Spadina extension was started, with a new station closer to Downsview Park, they realized changing the station names now made more sense.
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