Bloor-Yonge subway station. It's a major subway interchange between lines 1 (Yonge-University) and…read more2 (Bloor-Danforth). I grew up knowing these subway routes without numbers. It was the Yonge-University-Spadina and Bloor-Danforth lines. You then had the Scarborough LRT (rest in transit peace) and the Sheppard line. As much as I like numbers, I'm putting myself in the shoes of a visitor. Which would be more meaningful? I'm not sure. What I think is that this subway station may feel overwhelming to a newbie. It's always busy. The craziness is at its peak during rush hour. Everyone needs to walk fast and get somewhere. I feel like it's a stampede to a certain extent. As someone who often dropped by this station growing up, it wasn't confusing. I recently took the TTC to get to this station on line 2. It's a shared platform between the eastbound and westbound trains when you arrive on line 2. I had to exit to get onto Bloor Street East. The exit that I'm used to faces Yonge Street. I used to visit the Toronto Reference Library across the street often when I was in high school and university. I used this exit to reminisce. There are a bunch of ways to get in and out of this station. Going home, I entered from Bloor Street East through the Hudson's Bay Centre. I don't really know if that's the correct name of the underground shopping concourse. Hudson's Bay is gone, which is eerie. We have Eaton's Centre without Eaton's. Hey, why not Hudson's Bay Centre without Hudson's Bay? I spent hours walking around the concourse as a student. There used to be a Felix and Norton. It smelled so good. I loved cookies, especially freshly baked ones. I still do! I can still picture the paper transfer dispensers with the red round button. They are long gone. There are lots of PRESTO kiosks and gates instead. One of the gates did not recognize my PRESTO card. Luckily, I moved to a different one and I was fine. Signage is clear to get to the right subway line. There are also TTC employees ready to help you, which I liked. There are four floors to this station. I took a combination of stairs and escalators while I was here to move between two floors. There are elevators for those who need to use them, but I can't comment on how effective they are. Most major TTC subway stations have washrooms. This station does. I have never had the need to use the women's. I arrived at this station at roughly 11:30 am on a Monday. I left the area roughly 2.5 hours later. Trains were running on time. I managed to get a seat both ways. It was a good time to be a commuter. My cell phone worked fine on the platform. It was cool. It was nice returning to this station. I grew up as a commuter living in the Beaches. It was nice to return to those roots for a brief period before I got to Victoria Park station, hopped in my car, and headed to the suburbs. (40)

My Spanish friend called this subway station with her cute accent that sounded like "blue onion"…read more And that's how i come to think of Bloor-Yonge. Lol It's a vibrant station where people transfer from all directions. It's a station where you will go up and down the stairs to get to the trains. It's a station where you can dance to live music, but you'd have to fight with the ever moving crowd for space. It's a station where you can buy snacks for companionship while traveling. It's a station where millions of stories come and go. Just like "blue-onion".

Centrally located, this subway station is connected to a shopping center so follow the signs to…read morefind where to go. Once there, you can buy a paper ticket or tap a credit card. The subway is kept clean and trains run frequently.

The station is wheelchair accessible and had 4 entrances from all sides of Yonge-College & Carlton…read moreintersection. The southwest entrance is through College Park building and you pass through the food court and shopping center to get to the station. It can get busy at times, so you need to plan ahead.

Getting from the arrival area at the airport to the express train is a long and winding walk. But…read moreit is well signed, and once we got there, staffed with friendly people to help the clueless. Pay for the ticket at the kiosk just before the platform to save a few dollars. You can use your credit card to pay, swipe to get in, and then swipe to get out once you exit the train. Union Station is the last stop, and from there you can easily connect to the subway. Once you know how to do it, this is probably the least stressful and most economic way to reach the city. And the most environmentally friendly too!

Very convenient service but needs an extension of hours! I know it may be wishful thinking but 24/7…read moreservice would be amazing. Or at least starting around 4am, as there are many early flights. Coming in late also might limit folks, as they plan to take the UP and come in later than expected. However, fast and efficient!

Wellesley Subway Station is a small but handy stop on Subway Line 1 (Yellow Line), right in…read moredowntown Toronto. It's clean, easy to navigate, and connects well to nearby spots like Yonge Street and Wellesley Street East. The station has elevators and escalators, which makes it more accessible for everyone. It's not the busiest station, so getting in and out is usually quick and smooth.

This is the main station serving the Gay district of Toronto…read more Once you get out you need to head east and soon you will hit Church St. That's the main drag for bars and restaurants in the area. There's no parking at this station, but they do have accessible elevators for those needing one.

Tip: This station is a hub for lines 1 (Yonge-University-Spadina) and 4 (Sheppard)…read more Sheppard-Yonge station. What's in a name? The original name of this station was Sheppard station. Back in the day, this station was strictly a part of the Yonge-University-Spadina line, which is now line 1. The Sheppard line (line 4) wasn't built. When line 4 had arrived, this station needed a more meaningful name to indicate that it was a hub for lines 1 and 4. So, Sheppard leads because it's the original name on the Yonge line. It's also the namesake of line 4. When I worked at Yonge and Eglinton over a decade ago, I'd travel from Bassarion (line 4) to Sheppard-Yonge station, and then transfer southbound on line 1 to get to Eglinton. During rush hour, when I did this transfer, I always felt like I was a fish swimming upstream because commuters would be coming at me in the opposite direction. I don't miss that part of commuting during rush hour. Commuting during off-peak hours is less stressful! The passport office is near this station. I remember leaving work for a few hours to get my passport renewed. It was convenient taking line 1 to and from this station. It's also convenient that you can get to Yonge Sheppard Centre without going outside. This station is connected to this shopping centre, which helps when the weather isn't the greatest. This station has four floors. I remember accessing levels 3 and 4 the most to switch between lines 1 and 4. There are stairs, escalators, and elevators to get you to all floors. I never used the elevators, but I know that they were wheelchair-accessible. There are bus routes that you can catch from this station. The 97 Yonge and 84 Sheppard West have been around for eons. Due to line 4 being in full force, you catch the 85 Sheppard East bus from Don Mills station. It used to depart from this station when line 4 didn't exist. I haven't been to Yonge Sheppard Centre in ages. When I visit this area these days, I normally drive and figure out where to park. I'm contemplating parking at a TTC lot and coming here by subway instead to change things up. I also like reliving my past commuter life. (500)

Sheppard-Yonge Centre station is conveniently located on both Line 1 and Line 4; you can use Line 1…read moreto get to Finch (and York region) on go downtown or Vaughan. Or, you can take Line 4 to get as far as Don Mills. Also, you can take TTC buses to commute to Sheppard West. The station is wheelchair accessible and is connected to Sheppard-Yonge Centre food court and shopping stores.

Pure chaos last night though this might be more to blame TTC for. Was heading on a Northbound train…read morefrom St. Andrews to Finch, but due to maintenance had re-routed from Union back Southbound and had to get off at St. George to then switch to another Bloor-Yongye line. Upon getting to St. George, the station was filled with people scrambling all around in different directions 3x more than usual, overheard a lot of the red-vested TTC help attendants getting pretty overwhelmed and tired of the same questions from commuters wondering when the next train would come and how the medical emergency that stopped the first train would be resolved. I think there's real opportunity to consider more service design into transportation in Toronto. This would ultimately prevent situations like these from happening. (Ie. More signs and clearer messaging to inform riders on statuses, map improvements, ACCESSIBILITY, etc.)

How do I review this station without letting my disdain for the TTC get in the way? Hmmm…read more.. How about I just tell you about the station? In case you don't know St. George (I like to call him San Jorge) is the patron saint of jolly old England lad (and lasses). Did you know if the other two saint stations not named St. Clair are also patron saints of Ireland and Scotland? That's right Saint Patrick (aka San Patrizio) and Saint Andrew (San Andreas). Now stay with me because this will make your mind explode if you haven't already fallen asleep... If you were to combine the flags of St. George (red cross over white), St. Andrew (white cross over blue) and St Patrick (red X over white) you get the Union Jack flag aka the flag of the United Kingdom? OK enough of the history BS. I made that all up... actually no I didn't I'm just making sure you haven't lost interest just yet while I play this shell game of writing things completely irrelevant to St. George. So this station is special in a sense that it is one of the main interchange stations in all of the TTC system. In rankings of importance it's right up there and probably 3rd just behind Union (first) and Bloor/Yonge (second) in my personal ranking system of things. I like ranking things don't ask me why but ya I consider this station 3rd. This station is physically on the north side of Bloor Street between Prince Arthur and Bloor directly behind the OISE building of U of T (252 Bloor W). There are 2 entrances/exits while one faces St. George itself and the other is at Bedford. This station is on 3 levels. Ground level is where you enter/exit, buy tokens and such. The next level down is the 1 line (yellow line) which runs on the Spadina/University side (Downsview endpoint) and the Yonge side (Finch endpoint). This line runs right through the core of downtown from Bloor south through Queens Park and down University Ave to Union station before turning back up Yonge Street going all the way up to Finch Ave. This line is basically known as the "north-south" line and has recently been given the designation as "1" in the TTC's elaborate naming system. The next level down is the level for access to the Bloor Danforth line also known as "2" or if you are into colors it can also be called the green line. This is essentially your east west line that runs from Kipling to Kennedy. Really though nobody here calls any of these lines here by colors. This isn't Boston and the numbers thing is new but this isn't New York either. We don't have enough lines to be getting into letters either. Let's just say "3" should be part of "2" and "4" shouldn't even exist. San Jorge station is an important station because as far as interchange stations goes this is one of them and it can get very busy here.

I was recently in the area to pick up food at Rudy. I parked on the street north of Danforth…read moreAvenue, parallel to it. I walked up Linnsmore Crescent and saw Greenwood subway station. Normally along the Bloor-Danforth subway line (it's called line 2 these days, but the former is far more meaningful), a subway station is on or steps away from the street after which it is named. Greenwood is an exception. Greenwood Avenue is a good block west of Linnsmore. I spent a couple of summers in this area. In grade 7, I broke away from taking Cantonese in the summertime to focus on fun activities, such as calligraphy and badminton. My mom felt that I was revolting. My reasoning was that I was taking Cantonese on Saturdays throughout the regular school year, so why not try something different? I won. Yay! Anyway, calligraphy and badminton were offered at Lakeview Secondary School, which was roughly south of Greenwood station. The school became Catholic a few years later, as I recently drove over to check it out. Greenwood station had one bus coming in and out of that station: Greenwood 31. I had the option of taking that bus down to Queen Street East, and then hopping on the 501 streetcar to get home. The problem was that this bus didn't come as often as the Coxwell 22 bus. Instead, I walked along Monarch Park to Coxwell and took that bus to get down to Queen Street East. It now has two routes coming in and out of the station: Greenwood 31A and 31B. The former goes down to Queen. The latter goes further south to Eastern. Buses run every 20 minutes on weekends. They seem to run every 13 minutes during weekdays, which is significantly better than when I needed it. Figures! Sadly, this station does not have an elevator to support accessibility. It does have escalators. Coxwell, the station to the east of Greenwood, is your best best for accessibility needs. The station looked pretty quiet when I was briefly passing by. I saw one person come out of the station. It looked nicely kept and clean from the outside. (35)

This is a pretty small subway station as stations go in Toronto. Therefore the bad TTC service is…read moreeven more poor here. I've had to catch a cab from the station a few times to get to a friend's house because the buses come so infrequently. The sad thing is, it's still more reliable to get down to Leslieville from here than trying to catch a streetcar from Yonge street.

Castle Frank consists of a subway station and an integrated bus station (ie, you don't need to a…read moretransfer from one to another). This review is just for the bus station. I rode the 65 Parliament bus route into the station. There long platform that is the length of 3 busses. The platform has a roof over it but is open on one side to the elements. The platform area looks old. There is a single entrance at one end to the subway station and exit. This review is just for the subway station. The entrance is semicircular with multiple doors. You have to go down to reach the subway platforms or go straight to the bus platform. I didn't see any elevators for wheelchair accessibility. I did see a poster stating renovations for more accessibility in 2024. Review 2022-103

I've only been to this subway station once in my life and it was just 2 evenings ago…read more The funny thing about this station is that immediately surrounding the station is pretty much nothing. Through the actual exterior structure itself the shelter type wall practically acts as a panoramic see-through in which you can see the area near Rosedale valley facing south. Looking north towards the facing Mount Pleasant it's very green and spaced out. I don't get the feeling of being overcrowded at this station and it seems almost quiet and peaceful being recessed from Bloor enough that you feel as if you're on an island. The bus platform seems much longer than it should be and was probably busier at one point but currently there's only 2 buses that run out of this station. They are the 65 Parliament and the 94 Wellesley. The 94 runs east and west out of Wellesley station. The west part goes to Ossington via Wellesley, Queens Park and Hoskin/Harbord to Ossington then to the Bloor line. The eastern route goes from Wellesley to Parliament then up to Bloor and Castle Frank station. The 65 Parliament runs south from Castle Frank to Bloor and takes Parliament all the way down to the Esplanade and loops back up towards Castle Frank again. The buses themselves don't seem to run very frequently on the evenings on Saturday (about one every 20 minutes or so). Castle Frank is the last Bloor street station going east before crossing the Don Valley towards Broadview. Crossing the bridge between Castle Frank and Broadview will give you a good view of the Don Valley from the Prince Edward (Bloor) viaduct bridge.