{"id":12498,"date":"2010-07-09T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=12498"},"modified":"2010-07-09T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T18:48:44","slug":"new-ttc-station-maps-third-time-not-quite-the-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/07\/09\/new-ttc-station-maps-third-time-not-quite-the-charm\/","title":{"rendered":"New TTC station maps: Third time not the charm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7119320@N05\/4775674721\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4136\/4775674721_86857a2c9f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in September of 2009, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/09\/19\/ttc-replaces-vicinity-maps-but-still-some-work-to-do\/\">I reported on the new station vicinity maps<\/a> that were appearing throughout the TTC subway system. These new maps were intended to replace older maps that were often decades out-of-date. Unfortunately, the TTC made an embarrassing mess of these new maps, with long-gone landmarks shown (such as Ed&#8217;s Warehouse), some major destinations completely disappeared (SkyDome nowhere to be found on the St. Andrew map), and missing streets maps not-to-scale.<\/p>\n<p>The TTC was embarrassed into quickly removing all the offending new station area maps (though one can still find the first-generation maps hanging around in a few places &#8211;\u00a0 at least one of which still shows the 77 Spadina bus). Now, nearly a year later, the TTC has come up with new editions of these neighbourhood maps and are now posting them at a station near you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stevemunro.ca\/?p=4000\">Steve Munro has already commented<\/a> on the new Christie Station map. I have now seen these new maps at College, Bay and St. Andrew Stations, so I will add my own voice.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These new maps are an improvement over the September 2009 maps, as there appears to be nothing factually wrong in the new maps that I have seen. Yet there&#8217;s still a lot of work to be done and these maps don&#8217;t cut it.<\/p>\n<p>While many landmarks are correctly labeled, and the street grid appears to be correct, there are still many glaring omissions. Once again, connecting surface transit routes and stops are missing from the maps, and I do not understand why this feature was overlooked. Steve Munro and I both noticed that the several hotels (Four Seasons, Marriott, Park Hyatt, Intercontinental) near Bay Station (see map below) are not mapped, something that one would think would be very useful for tourists. The underground &#8220;Mini-PATH&#8221; system connecting the commercial buildings around Bay and Bloor is missing.<\/p>\n<p>Parks are shown in green, but such a pale colour that they are hard to see on this rather plain background. Streets are shaded, but are in a very light grey colour as to be hard to distinguish from the white space.\u00a0 Building footprints are inconsistent. Finally, for the first time, the map projection has changed to defer to &#8220;true north&#8221; rather than the common, perceived north that nearly every professional map adheres to; if the STM in Montreal used the same conformity to a map projection, Ste-Catharine Street would run almost exactly north-south and St-Laurent east-west and would confuse everyone!<\/p>\n<p>I remain unimpressed by the TTC&#8217;s mapping efforts. Perhaps the TTC should have just updated the original 1990s-era station vicinity map designs \u2014 apart from being sometimes comically out-of-date, they were better designed and more useful than anything produced since.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7119320@N05\/4775675053\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4096\/4775675053_8382451bdd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in September of 2009, I reported on the new station vicinity maps that were appearing throughout the TTC subway system. These new maps were intended to replace older maps that were often decades out-of-date. Unfortunately, the TTC made an embarrassing mess of these new maps, with long-gone landmarks shown (such as Ed&#8217;s Warehouse), some<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/07\/09\/new-ttc-station-maps-third-time-not-quite-the-charm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;New TTC station maps: Third time not the charm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,8],"tags":[3451,15523,38,569,1187],"class_list":["post-12498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-transit","tag-bay-station","tag-eds-warehouse","tag-montreal","tag-skydome","tag-steve-munro"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New TTC station maps: Third time not the charm - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/07\/09\/new-ttc-station-maps-third-time-not-quite-the-charm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New TTC station maps: Third time not the charm - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Back in September of 2009, I reported on the new station vicinity maps that were appearing throughout the TTC subway system. 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