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Catch The Spadina Bus While You Can

Some time ago, I wrote about the haphazard way in which station vicinity maps were replaced (never mind their content).  There are a few spots in the system that time forgot, and, while it lasts, I thought to bring you a map from before July 1997 when the 510 Spadina car began operation.

This is one of the older style of maps, back when the TTC actually put connecting surface routes on them.  If you look closely, you will see that Spadina south of Bloor is served by route 77.  The date on the map is “03/96”.

The “You Are Here” pointer gives away the location — the Walmer Road exit from Spadina Station.  This was built as part of the reconfiguration of Spadina Station to accommodate the LRT line.  Oddly enough, the route map right beside it is recent enough to include the Spadina car.

Another version of this legacy map at the bottom of the stairs from the west side of Spadina has been replaced with the new version.

Elsewhere in Spadina Station, a poster still advertises the August subway diversions for construction at St. George.

7 thoughts on “Catch The Spadina Bus While You Can”

  2. Elsewhere in Spadina Station, a poster still advertises the August subway diversions for construction at St. George.

    As do a number of prominent signs at Islington.

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  4. That’s nothing: up until last year when they changed them, the maps at Warden Station still showed the 114 Kingston Road East bus going into Warden Station. That route has not existed since 1990.

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  5. Elsewhere in Spadina Station, a poster still advertises the August subway diversions for construction at St. George.

    There are a lot of buses in service across the city with those pamphlets still as well.

    Steve: Yes, and when replacement folders come out, they will just put them over top of the subway diversion notices.

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  6. Well I would say it’s a matter of TTC alertness. For I don’t know how many years in Cleveland in the 1960s, signs telling of changes in trolley bus service were still hanging in plain public view in spite of the fact that ETBs were removed from Cleveland streets in 1963 so I would imagine that a good many transit operations have been guilty of some kind of neglect over outdated signs and maps.

    Steve: One would expect a transit system to have a list of all of the map locations, if only because they need to update them from time to time. The route map at Spadina/Walmer is much newer than the local area map. It is quite possible that two separate groups are responsible for each of the maps. That would be the usual TTC way to organize this sort of thing.

    As for out of date notices, all the TTC needs is a standing policy that all notices have the words “remove after date xxx” printed on them as instructions to station cleaning staff. They still do have one or two people doing that sort of thing, don’t they?

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  7. That is bad enough as an indicator of the TTC disregard for signs, but worse yet is the fact that most people going through Spadina station would not even realize that the Walmer exit exists. The “exit” signs on the platform indicate only the exit at the east end, not the Walmer exit at the west end.

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