Jaye101
Active Member
Now, if you ride the subway its kind of hard not to notice. After taking my first trip to Montreal and seeing the good condition their stations are in, it makes me upset that Toronto's system is in such shape. At Islington Station there is yellow water leaking onto the platform with no signs warning passengers. At Bloor Station there is orange goop soaking up an unknown liquid in the middle of the station. There are broken signs, uncovered cielings, etc... Some of the neglect seems to simply be a result of laziness.
Post your pictures of Toronto Subway Stations experiencing neglect.
Dundas West
Yonge (the one spoken of in the article)
Islington
The Fixer: What's with the ooze at Yonge station?
By: Jack Lakey
Yonge St. is in need of tidying up, but at the TTC's Yonge-Bloor subway station, a total redo of Yonge is long overdue.
Toronto's main drag has a forlorn air about it, which persists despite gussied-up storefronts and rehabilitation projects like Yonge-Dundas Square. A hike from Bloor to Queen Sts. provides ample evidence.
A lot of strollers on Yonge are from out of town and get there by riding the subway. They form an impression of the city and its transit system based on how these areas are maintained.
Michael J. McKeown sent us a photo of a tiled wall across the tracks from the westbound platform of the Bloor subway line, with the word "Yonge" on it at intervals to alert passengers they're rolling into the Yonge-Bloor station.
The photo shows something oozing out from between the tiles that so thoroughly obscures the Yonge, it looks like the tiles are melting. Lord only knows what it is.
McKeown's email, sent from his BlackBerry, had not a word in it, other than to name the location. We assume he thought the photo was worth a thousand words.
We went there Tuesday and found the soiled tiles across the middle of the platform, where riders gather.
It's not an issue that affects the operation of trains or the convenience or comfort of riders. Nobody has been delayed by it.
But it goes to the heart of a problem that dogs the TTC: A perception that its managers have become indifferent to the rundown appearance of stations.
To be fair, the TTC is renovating some stations and washrooms on an ongoing basis, and has been starved for upwards of 15 years of operating capital that transit systems elsewhere take for granted. But for a lot of things, it is no excuse.
STATUS: We reported the problem to Jessica Martin, who deals with media for the TTC. She's getting back to us about the cause of the stuff on the tiles, and what the TTC intends to do about it.
Post your pictures of Toronto Subway Stations experiencing neglect.
Dundas West
Yonge (the one spoken of in the article)
Islington