Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler
Skywatch Friday
ABC Wednesday
1. Starts with "L"
2. A Favorite
3. Lonely
For the letter of the week for this round I am going to go with all things TTC, Toronto Transit Corporation.
Lawrence West station opened in 1978, as part of the subway line extension from St. George to Wilson Station.
Upon entrance from the Lawrence Avenue bridge over Allen Road, the bus waiting area and the train platform are apparent. This openness is achieved through glazed walls and a large stairwell. The glass is framed with distinctive orange-painted metal. The platform level features exposed concrete walls, with a long strip of skylights above the tracks with the same orange framing used throughout the station.
Rectangular prism benches with rectangular tiles of yellow, orange, and brown hues are unique to the station. Similar tiles are used on the floors and centre pillars.
Spacing... Aerial Highways, a large 300 foot ceramic tile mural designed by Claude Breeze, spreads across the north face of the main station building above the bus platform.
And was under construction when I went there today.
Leader Lane
The street was renamed Leader's Lane after the Toronto Leader, a newspaper whose offices were located there from 1852 to 1878.
It was the site of York's first jail and "hanging yard". The original jail, a log building, built in 1796, at the corner with Colborne Street has long since been demolished, but several buildings remain on the street which are over 100 years old.
Lonely on Lake Ontario last week.
You have such very nice and clean stations and terminals, Jackie. That's not like the raunchy ones in NYC, but more like the ones in Washington D.C. and Moscow (Russia). "Hanging yard" is a term I hadn't heard for many years. I imagine New Hampshire has one as they still hang, once in a very dark blue moon. Have a nice weekend.
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Jim, Moscow's stations were amazing!
Delete...your subway sure is clean and beautiful. A hanging yard, what a cheery idea. It's not common to see a lone duck much least a lone goose. Thank Jackie for sharing this week. enjoy!
ReplyDeleteSubway is pretty clean. To be fair, there were other ducks around, but I needed a :lonely: one.
DeleteA well keep station. Interesting about the goal and I did not know Toronto was once called York. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
ReplyDeleteI do like the look of the station.
ReplyDeleteAnother awesome station. Love the lonely duck. Happy Sunday!
ReplyDeleteThe only street I can think start is L "Lincoln"
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A light and lovely station makes waiting for the train more appealing, I think. Love that photo of the lonely duck.
ReplyDeleteOne of the wonderful things of ABC is the possibillity to learn things I had never heard of before… like now in this post of yours, thanks you
ReplyDeleteHave a splendid, ♥-warming ABC-Wednes-day / -week
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I LOVE your train stations there. Did I mention before that I found it a very livable city?
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