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The TTC Type & Tile Tour this Sunday

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For those of you interested in the history of the TTC tile design and signage check out Joe Clark’s tour this Sunday. Clark has been fighting to properly preserve Toronto subway stations’ unique interior architecture. The info is:

Sunday, October 28, 2007, at 1400 hours on the dot
NEW MEETING POINT: Meet inside Victoria Park station at ground level (downstairs inside the station). (We had to move it from Scarborough Centre because that station is closed this Sunday.) This would be a bad time to be late. Look for me in my purple hat.

Itinerary

  • • Victoria Park for its bus bays (scheduled for demolition)
  • • Main Street as a microcosm or musem of nearly every TTC sign variant
  • • Pape for its upcoming “modernization”
  • • St. George because it’s a laboratory of successful (and failed) signage experiments
  • • Spadina for the “artificial stone” at the Walmer Rd. exit
  • • Bathurst to test the new signs (can you take a streetcar westbound from there?)

    • What you need

    Just get yourself into the subway by legally paying a fare in some way. We won’t leave the subway system. (We might go have a drink afterward.) It would be prudent to get a transfer if you aren’t using a pass.

    Also, here’s the Facebook listing.

    photo by Rannie Turingan

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