A lot has happened this past week - well - maybe it hasn't happened yet, but a lot has been proposed to happen this past week, and I just can't keep up on my opinion pieces. So - today - it's a start...
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At this week's council meetings, Denzil Minnan-Wong proposed renaming Toronto's historic Union Station to honour Canada's first prime minister John A. Macdonald. While I'm sure we all appreciate the sentiment of wanting to remember - there's something else with tons of great memories that we could also name it after: Union Station!
The building that exists right now has been open for almost 90 years, and its predecessors over 110 years - all whom have fallen into being called Union Station. This is the centre of Toronto's transit hub - regional, national, local - everyone winds up here at some point. We all know it as Union, remember it as Union, and will forever call it Union - no matter what the "official" name would be, so what's the point?
Aside from that - think of the financial commitment that would have to go into changing all city, TTC, GO, VIA, and other signage. It would be a disaster! For the next 20 years, we'd have tourists, and out of towners coming in looking for Union Station on their maps, and would be more than a little confused to find out they're inside of it when they thought they were in the J.A.M. station (which sounds like a hip-hop radio network btw). Leave it alone - let it be - focus your efforts on something more important.
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