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Sheppard Line Review
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Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:22:08 GMT
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This is just a quick run down of my thoughts on the new line.
Dad and I arrived about 10 minutes after everything opened up to the public;
we'd parked at Yorkdale, and went over from there on the subway.
o Sheppard-Yonge
This station is now the new interchange between the Yonge-University-Spadina
subway, and the Sheppard subway. There have been made a lot of changes to
the YUS platform; It'd be wonderful to see these reflected in the nearby
stations on that line (Eglinton, York Mills, Lawrence, etc). You access the
Yonge platform of the Sheppard subway by going upstairs from the platform.
The new platform is very odd, and I haven't figured it out. Trains arrive
apparently on just one of the two outboard platforms, which is unusual for a
terminus, and then there's a large, unfinished concrete island in the
centre. I've no idea if that bit of the station will ever be finished or
accessable to the public, or what it's purpose is for. I'm sure it's on the
Transit Toronto website somewhere, but I've no idea where(
http://transit.toronto.on.ca/ ).
The artwork here is all mosiacs in the wall, and they're really beautiful.
It's all farm scenes, which my dad was big into since he worked for the
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. So this was his favourite
station.
o Bayview
This was by far my favourite station. Something about having artwork that,
from one direction, resembles a strawberry, the next, a bumble bee
fornicating with a pincushion. You really have to go here. I think this is
the nicest station in all of Toronto now. Other items of art include
ladder, dog, salt shaker, apple, and bicycle.
o Bessarion
No. Everything here needs to go. I can't say the words I want to say about
this station.
a. We do not have pictures of feet strewn about the lobby to invoke
movement.
b. We do not paint concrete white and use that for a ceiling. That is
rude.
c. We do not put pictures of hair at platform level.
o Leslie
No. No.
Absolutely totally wrong.
I couldn't believe the coments coming from people; I'm elated that virtually
*everyone* was in agreement that this is quite possibly the most ugly thing
on the face of the earth. For those who don't know, the entire station is
adorned in thousands of tiles with hand-written "Leslie & Sheppard" by the
local citizens who live about the station. A cute concept. A horrific
reality.
This is truly the most frightening station I believe I've ever set foot in.
o Don Mills
Don Mills is now the end of the line, someday the trains will continue
toward Scarborough Centre (or so the plan goes). For now, this is a really
nice station, with a large mezinaine, but a very small platform. The
platform was *insanely* congested and no one knew where anyone was suposed
to go today. Like, even at Sheppard things seemed to flow really nicely.
But here, there was just a huge mess of people trailing right back into the
*trains*. I'm much more fond of the ceiling here than I am at Bessarion,
mostly because it's unpainted concrete. The colours they chose for the
tiles on the walls is very attractive, and overall this is a very good
terminus.
Iain
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| (...) I saw one of the displays that the TTC setup before construction began and the guy there said the center platform was for future expansion of the platform. If this interchange gets really busy then will finish the middle and it will become a (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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