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Keeping it real – Subway Architecture edition

Keeping it real – Subway Architecture edition
Next time you’re in Stockholm, be sure to venture down into the subway system. They’ve got some stations that are seemingly the antithesis of most subway stations. Typically you’d expect the kind of architecture which tries it’s best to create a normative building interior experience deep below grade level. Typically you’d be right. In Stockholm, however, you’d be quite wrong. For...
Posted by on Apr 1st, 2006 | 0 comments

Metropass Affinity Program

Today the Toronto Transit Commission drops the hammer with its new fare hike but there is a growing group of businesses who don’t want that to discourage you from opting for public transit. They are going to treat your Metropass as a discount card and give you lucky people some added benefits for your public transit ways. Isn’t that nice of them? The only down side is that it is such a shame when...
Posted by on Feb 23rd, 2006 | 0 comments

Forced transit ubiquity

Howard Moscoe (Chair of the Toronto Transit Comission) is proposing that condominium developers in Toronto provide free transit passes to residents of condos erected near subway lines in order to both generate revenue, and encourage use of public transit. The move would also see a rate hike for those buying on-the-spot passes. While this seems like an interesting proposal it is wrought with potential potholes. If it...
Posted by on Nov 30th, 2005 | 0 comments

Tomorrow’s subway today

The Toronto Community Foundation has unveiled their plans for the new subway revitalization scheme by Diamond & Schmitt architecture who we had always assumed would propose something more … ‘tasteful’. That’s what you get when you get involved in that kind of shallow cash-grab paint job seduction scheme though.
Posted by on Nov 8th, 2005 | 0 comments

Who’s Who in Underground Railway Maps

If you have an underground railway (not the slave-liberation kind necessarily) and want to map it out with class there are a few precidents you ought to be aware of. There are also several people who might be able to help you out as the underground railroad cartography community is not as big as one might initially imagine. Fortunately for you, Peter B. Lloyd has made some relevant information available to...
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