A Modern Toronto Subway Station
January 19th, 2009, by Jeremy Krygsman
The appearance of a typical
TTC subway entrance.
The Toronto Subway is run by the Toronto Transit Commission, and serves over 1.2 million people every day. It has 4 underground lines and one above ground line, of which the Young-University-Spadina line is the oldest. Transit service on this line is generally excellent, with trains arriving 3 to 4 minutes during rush hour. However, there is one major problem with the subway: it can be very confusing to an outsider like me, and it tends to look downright ugly!
I’m sure it can be improved, however, and I’ve spent several hours designing a new subway entrance – it was a great learning experience! Perhaps later I will finish with an entire station design, complete with signage and everything, but without further adieu, here it us!
Lit up at night.
The bathroom tiled walls of most TTC subway stations do have some cultural and historic significance, and really they don’t look half bad when they’re well maintained and surrounded by a modern structure!
If you like the design, please comment!
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Hey, these look pretty cool and I like the covering over the subway. Annoying when all that slush makes it way into the subway. Also, it matches the new bus shelters (Which are a little… big right now.)
Like the design a lot. Much easier to see where the subway is!
Wow!