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TTC Subway Stops
60 icons. Comment, credit, no hotlinking.



Inspired by the TTC buttons at Spacing.ca, I decided that clearly the people of Toronto need icons to match! Just a couple of notes:

1. I didn't do the Sheppard line nor the Scarborough RT, mostly because 60 icons was already too many.
   
2. Each of the stations that have two lines running through them (Spadina, St. George, Yonge/Bloor) only have one icon each, rather than one for each line.
   
3. The tile patterns are based off of this image as well as this explanation of the tile colour schemes. Colours had to be approximated as a result, and thus there may be some errors. Sorry!

[TTC stands for the Toronto Transit Commission, who run public transit in Toronto, for those who are not from the city.]

Yonge-University-Spadina

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.

Bloor-Danforth

33. 34. 35. 36.
37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44.
45. 46. 47. 48.
49. 50. 51. 52.
53. 54. 55. 56.
57. 58. 59. 60.

Got a question? FAQ | icon resources

I'd also like to issue the Transit Icons Challenge:

1. Create a set of icons based on a transit system you are familiar with. It could be the London underground, the Paris metro, the New York subway system, anything you want.
   
2. Post them wherever you regularly post icons; comment in this entry with a link to your icons.
   
3. At the end of the challenge, I'll post a master list of all the entries that have been submitted.

Submissions are due March 19, 2006 at 5pm EST.

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	kyasuriin 2006-03-05 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	aww, TO! <3 (Reply to this)

	bluekat3260 2006-03-05 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	lol cool idea =P not taking any though (Reply to this)

	kabutar 2006-03-05 10:03 pm UTC (link)
	How do you come up with these things? :P Awesome idea :) (Reply to this)

	thereal_anabel 2006-03-05 10:08 pm UTC (link)
	How big does the set have to be? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	grrliz 2006-03-05 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	As big as you want it to be. I did 60 because that's how many stops were in the two subway lines that I chose to do, but you can do as many or as few as you want/require. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	astralis_lumen 2006-03-05 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	LOL. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	astralis_lumen 2006-03-05 10:29 pm UTC (link)
	*Made of awesome, really. (Reply to this) (Parent)

(no subject) - alexi_lupin, 2006-03-06 05:14 am UTC

(no subject) - astralis_lumen, 2006-03-06 05:17 am UTC

	presently 2006-03-05 10:12 pm UTC (link)
	Now I really want to go back to Toronto. :x Not taking any, but these are really nice. :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	grrliz 2006-03-05 10:13 pm UTC (link)
	Actually, most of them are pretty ugly, but I blame the TTC and their decor choices rather than myself. I have a fondness for Spadina, though, it's so ugly it's kind of appealing. :D (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - presently, 2006-03-05 10:26 pm UTC

(no subject) - presently, 2006-03-05 10:28 pm UTC

	hot_coffee 2006-03-05 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	Nice!! I saw some people with pins like that and have wondered where they got them. I took the Union, St. Clair, St. Clair W., and Queen ones. Great work! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	prolium 2006-05-20 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	The pins are from Spacing magazine. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	beyond_pale 2006-03-05 10:32 pm UTC (link)
	What a FABULOUS idea!! If I didn't have about 8 sets of icons brewing, I'd volunteer to handle boston's T... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	grrliz 2006-03-05 10:37 pm UTC (link)
	Put the other sets on hold! Do Boston!! *is a bad influence* (Reply to this) (Parent)

	wolfgrin 2006-03-05 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	Love these! Bookmarking it, might save some later when I get unlazy enough to upload new icons. (Reply to this)

	hoppytoad79 2006-03-05 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	I look forward to the London icons. (Reply to this)

	madzilla 2006-03-05 10:51 pm UTC (link)
	Now this might be a good use for the London Underground font I just downloaded ... if I can only think of some design ideas... It's a great, original idea. Thanks! :D (Reply to this)

	mzzgoddessblue 2006-03-05 11:05 pm UTC (link)
	LOL i was going to do this challenge, until i remembered that we dont' even have a transit system in this town. heh. too small. we have one taxi - hmmm wonder if i could do a series of icons on our one little taxi. Heh. (Reply to this)

	nialyind 2006-03-05 11:13 pm UTC (link)
	Look forward to a comment with DC Metro icons. :-) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	c4bl3fl4m3 2006-03-10 09:23 am UTC (link)
	Make that 2 of us. Red line, anyone? (Reply to this) (Parent)

(no subject) - evil_laugher, 2006-03-12 11:30 pm UTC

	ignited 2006-03-05 11:18 pm UTC (link)
	If I didn't hate the MTA so much it'd be cool to do the NYC subway. Kudos to anyone else who does. What a cool idea! :) (Reply to this)

	anne_jumps 2006-03-05 11:20 pm UTC (link)
	I'm laughing at the idea of doing one for Atlanta. hahahah. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	lechaco 2006-03-06 06:14 am UTC (link)
	hahaha you should do it. XD (Reply to this) (Parent)

(no subject) - ninepointfivemm, 2006-03-12 12:47 am UTC

	weirdwig 2006-03-05 11:38 pm UTC (link)
	Awesome idea. They're thinking of redecorating the "Museum" station and Osgoode station with murals and stuff. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	grrliz 2006-03-05 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, they're also thinking of renaming Osgoode "Osgoode-Opera" once the Four Seasons Centre opens in September. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - robinhood, 2006-04-19 01:24 am UTC

(no subject) - prolium, 2006-05-20 05:39 pm UTC

	ms_cucumber 2006-03-05 11:46 pm UTC (link)
	What a cool idea. Maybe I'll try it except that most of the subway stations are just named after the streets they're on -- e.g., 9th Avenue; 25th Street. Fun fun. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ms_cucumber 2006-03-05 11:46 pm UTC (link)
	In NYC, that is. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - grrliz, 2006-03-05 11:49 pm UTC

(no subject) - misconstrue, 2006-03-06 12:28 am UTC

(no subject) - ms_cucumber, 2006-03-06 02:22 pm UTC

(no subject) - misconstrue, 2006-03-06 09:26 pm UTC

(no subject) - ms_cucumber, 2006-03-06 10:01 pm UTC

(no subject) - misconstrue, 2006-03-06 10:21 pm UTC

(no subject) - ms_cucumber, 2006-03-07 03:29 am UTC

(no subject) - prolium, 2006-05-20 05:38 pm UTC

	jetpants 2006-03-06 12:17 am UTC (link)
	Hey, those are cool. You definitely captured the public washroom aesthetic of so many of the stations. ;p And the challenge is tempting...the Montreal metro design is just stylish ugly enough that if I could figure out a way, it could make good icons. Also, if I wasn't so lazy. (Reply to this)

	pastelstar 2006-03-06 12:23 am UTC (link)
	LOL @ Yorkdale and Lawrence West. Clumps of concrete! Although, if you had made Lawrence West with those ugly scary round yellow vent things, I would have run screaming. I can't go through that station with my eyes open. They freak the crap outta me. (Reply to this)

	robinliness 2006-03-06 01:01 am UTC (link)
	where's Greenwood Station? I didn't know it existed and it's my name! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	double oh crap weave 2006-03-06 09:02 am UTC (link)
	it would seem i need to sleep -_- http://www.ttc.ca etc. etc ad nauseam (Reply to this) (Parent)

(no subject) - jadeddiva, 2006-03-18 10:20 pm UTC

(no subject) - robinliness, 2006-03-20 02:36 am UTC

	kagiri 2006-03-06 01:46 am UTC (link)
	You are, like, so cool. (Reply to this)

	madzilla 2006-03-06 02:38 am UTC (link)
	OK, I gave it a go: 20 London Underground Icons. Pretty simple, with sort of colour-coded stripes. Only 20 for now, but I might well add more at some point - the thing is there are so many Tube stations I could make icons of them for the rest of my life and not finish them all, so I just concentrated on the most well-known ones. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	grrliz 2006-03-06 02:55 am UTC (link)
	They're great! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	flyingspatulas 2006-03-06 03:02 am UTC (link)
	LOL. I love the idea. I'd do some for the Mexican bus system but I doubt anyone would want them! ;) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	grrliz 2006-03-06 05:46 am UTC (link)
	Make 'em anyway! You never know who will want to use them. :D (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - flyingspatulas, 2006-03-06 04:02 pm UTC

	sarcastic_icons 2006-03-06 04:00 am UTC (link)
	This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, but it also makes me very jelous. I want to live in Toronto like whoa, and this makes me miss the place that I've never lived. (Reply to this)

	finefinemusic 2006-03-06 05:18 am UTC (link)
	Dude, you kick ass! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	grrliz 2006-03-06 05:48 am UTC (link)
	I really wanted Jane to be superfantastic just for you, and then when I finally got around to making it I was like "GAH! JANE! WHY MUST YOU HAVE SUCH BORING TILES?!" It occurs to me, though, that I should have stuck silhouettes of birds all over Old Mill, cause that would have been awesome. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

(no subject) - finefinemusic, 2006-03-06 05:05 pm UTC

(no subject) - smartpig, 2006-03-09 06:16 am UTC

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