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20161201. LRV in the landscape. A new TTC streetcar turns around at the Fleet Street Loop.
20161118. A TTC Flexity Outlook LRV rises from the underground.
20161030. Heading in to the underground at Spadina Station.
20161025. A TTC Flexity Outlook LRV (light rail vehicle / streetcar) heads underground on route to Union Station.
20161020. Getting close to TTC’s Flexity streetcar fleet.
20161020a. 4417 vs. 4425. Two TTC 510 Spadina Flexity streetcars (LRVs) meet at Queen and Spadina. Vehicle 4425 is the latest to enter service.
20161020b. Narrowly dodging a TTC Flexity Outlook streetcar on Queens Quay.
20160812. A Toronto TTC Flexity Outlook LRV does the Charlotte Loop (510 Spadina).
20160709. Incandescent versus Fluorescent in the battle of light fixtures.
20160616. The Bessarian perspective on TTC’s Sheppard Line.
20160612. TTC’s Wilson Station mushroom.
Toronto
20160609. Presto fare gates have replaced the old turnstiles at TTC’s Wellesley Station.
20160530. Floating Flexity streetcar at TTC’s Leslie Barns Maintenance and Storage Facility.
20160528. Toronto’s first new Flexity LRV (streetcar) 4401 prepares for warp speed.
Ok, in reality it sits in the paint booth at the new TTC Leslie Streetcar Barns during Doors Open Toronto 2016.
20160502. TTC’s Davisville substation buildings provide a fine example of contextual design in shape, orientation and detailing.
Pardoning the architectural nomenclature, note:
a) how the base course on each building (the stone band running the length of the building) is at the same height;
b) the cornice of the newer building is at the same height of the older building with the additional height of the former in a different colour
c) the masonry is similar in colour and the stone bands equal in number
d) the windows are similar; and
e) although hard to see, the older building and the newer building are each trapezoidal in shape and both buildings fit into a combined trapezoid.
The result is a simple yet elegant addition to a historical building.
20160501. A shiny and just like new TTC automated entrance way. Can you guess which subway station?
20160413. A bird’s eye view of a smokestack perch at TTC’s Davisville Yard.
20160407. A platform with a view.
20160310. The cavernous Leslie station on the underused Sheppard Line.
20160122. Toronto Osgoode Station’s new look – better than before but not as good as the days of yore.
20160114. White lines on the Sheppard subway line.
20151219. A mosaic of tiles welcomes the commuter to St. Patrick Station.
20151212. Two fluorescent lights on a curved siding ceiling. Minimal Aesthetic 79.
20151210. Toronto’s Wellesley subway station is sporting a béton brut look.
20151209. This is what Osgoode subway station looked like in 1963.
20151207. Osgoode subway station’s removed siding reveals the original vitrolite tiling.
