Comments on: A Refreshing New Look for a TTC Station http://meldotell.com/2008/05/09/a-refreshing-new-look-for-a-ttc-station/ Reflections on Urban Life Fri, 20 May 2011 02:31:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Omar Ha-Redeye http://meldotell.com/2008/05/09/a-refreshing-new-look-for-a-ttc-station/#comment-50 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:50:51 +0000 http://melissafeeney.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-50 I noticed this last week too. It almost made me want to get off the train and check it out.

Museum was a good station to start with, and it can only help out tourism industry. I also agree that they could continue this with other eyesores on the subway line.

]]> By: Will O'Neill http://meldotell.com/2008/05/09/a-refreshing-new-look-for-a-ttc-station/#comment-37 Mon, 12 May 2008 18:42:08 +0000 http://melissafeeney.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-37 I like your ideas, Melissa, but I think the problem is more one of how to decorate stations that are in areas of little-to-no significance.

I mean, McCowan LRT Station – what do you do? It’s in the middle of light industrial blight and heartless condominium developments.

I guess they could get around to those last – at the rate they could probably afford to go, I’m sure it will be a long, long time before anything like that happens.

But beautifying the TTC is only an exercise in irony, so long as the service is as bad as it is. The new Museum station looks great, but a few more streetcars would probably be for the best, and a little less insulting to the intelligence of TTC riders, as this kind of cosmetic work sends the ‘Everything is fine!’ message when, clearly, everything is not.

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