![]() East from Yonge St., where it connects with the Yonge-University-Spadina line at Sheppard (or, as it has been renamed, Sheppard-Yonge).Īfter all those additions, the Toronto subway still has a mere 69 stations – slightly more than the District Line in the London Underground. The RT connects at Kennedy, the eastern terminus of the Bloor-Danforth line. Scarborough RT A separate line using its own smaller (“toy”) trains. Bloor-Danforth intersects Yonge-University-Spadina at three stations – the Yonge branch intersects at Bloor, the University branch at St. (the same street with different names past a dividing line). Bloor-Danforth line Mostly follows Bloor St. Many downtown streets have two stations, one on the Yonge branch and another on University (e.g., Queen/Osgoode, King/St. From Union and without a break, the line loops up along University Ave. to Union in the southern end of downtown. Starting from Finch in the far north end, the line extends under Yonge St. ![]() Yonge-University-Spadina line Runs in a U-shaped path. It started with a single 11-station line running under Yonge Street (pronounced “Young” it’s the main commercial street and divides east from west). ![]() The Toronto subway, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), opened in 1954. It is also an example of subverting, ignoring, and actively destroying a special typographic heritage – quite an achievement considering that the type involved is almost a foot high and permanently sandblasted into subway walls.ġ966: East-west line added (Bloor-Danforth), extended 1968ġ978: Spadina branch added to Yonge-University lineġ985: New east-end line opened (Scarborough RT) new station added (North York Centre, 1987)Ģ002: New north-end line opened (Sheppard) But the margins are where originality can thrive, and the typography of the Toronto subway is a prime example. You might not expect something typographically unique to come out of Toronto, a B-tier city that stands in the shadow of A-tier cities even in the minds of some residents. Ontario College of Art and Design student José Ongpin (2006) has concisely encapsulated 50 years of typographic history in four information-dense illustrations, reproduced here (PDF) by permission. This document is not a script for my in-person presentation at ATypI on 2007.09.16.
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