The newest station on line 1 north of the Wilson Yards and currently the most northern station on…read morethe Spadina side of line 1 also the terminus station on the west side as well. The previous terminus (Wilson) has the multiple parking lots and much more parking since it was the previous end of the line just on the other side of the 401 at the much busy Yorkdale complex. Downsview station located at the south east corner of Allen and Sheppard is where Sheppard makes that dramatic detour around the Downsview airport runway near Chesswood. This station does have a north side entrance as well as a kiss and ride pickup area with actual parking spots instead of a rotary type hub like Finch or Kipling. Access to the parking and drop off area is accessible at the access road just east of Allen on the south side of Sheppard and access to just the parking lot is also available on the east side of Allen south of Sheppard. The parking lot at Downsview seems rather small but with room to grow if needed. Now that Downsview will no longer be the terminus station for this leg of line 1 after the extension to Vaughan is complete it's yet to be determined if more parking is even required. The station is has a large surface area for buses on both sides of the bus depot. The bus depot services quite a few bus routes from here: 84 Sheppard West begins west of Sheppard station (at Yonge) along Sheppard and crosses at Allen while remains on Sheppard to Weston road where it loops back around at Bradstock and Rivalda before heading back east. 101 Downsview Park is a very short route that simply goes around the Sheppard hump turns left on John Drury to Carl Hall road into the park. 104 Faywood runs between Downsview and Wilson stations. It takes a route from Wilson from Ansford to Faywood which turns into Wilmington north of Sheppard to Finch Ave, goes west to Dufferin and then turns to Kennard and down to Wilson Heights and then back to Sheppard to Downview station. 105 Dufferin North runs into Vaughan and requires additional fare when north of Steeles avenue. This route runs north on Dufferin and loops at Confederation parkway and then east on Rutherford road before turning back south again. 106 York University runs west along the Sheppard hump and then north on Sentinel road to York University main campus in a clockwise direction meeting The Pond road at six o'clock and Ian Macdonald before turning back to Sentinel going south. 107 Keele North has many variants but for the most part the 107C is the main route which makes its way west along the Sheppard hump through the industrial area near Tuscan Gate toe Keele and then north as far as Teston road in Vaughan. Same as the 105 additional fare is required north of Steeles avenue. 108 Downsview main run 108B runs west on the Sheppard hump to Arleta avenue and up Driftwood north of Finch to Strong Court and then briefly along Jane street before turning right back onto Driftwood again before heading south bound. 117 Alness runs up Allen/Dufferin to a dedicated bus roadway that runs parallel and north of Finch Ave to Alness up to Steeles and bakc down Dufferin. This route around the roadway and Alness runs clockwise before 3pm and counter clockwise after 3pm. As for the train platform it's long and wide with an arched roof. The trains on line 1 of course are wider than the Bloor/Danforth line 2 but the design of this station lends to more space and feels much more open than a majority of the older stations in the TTC system.

This is probably the nicest subway station in Toronto. At least it will be for a couple years until…read morethey add the York U extension. The ceilings are high, the decor is modern, and there is tons of space. Even when the station is packed you still feel like you have room to breathe. The convenience store here is an actual store that you can walk into, unlike the counter style stores at most stations.

We visited Lower Bay Subway Station as a part of DoorsOpen 2024 and it was very well-organized. All…read morethe guides were knowledgeable and helpful and friendly. It was really nice to travel in time and see how things were run not very long time ago. There were subway cars in the station for you to go inside, explore and take pictures. There were also posters available talking about the history of TTC, subway lines and stations and how streetcars improved during time.

Bay Street subway station is located on the northside of Bloor street west and west of Bay street…read more Bay station some entrances attached to buildings like 80 and 110 Bloor West but there's also one on Cumberland and one on east side of Belair south of Cumberland and the other is on the west side of Bay also south of Cumberland. This is a basically your stop for Yorkville between Bay and Avenue road. As far as proximity the two business interchange stations flank Bay station to the east and west (St. George, Bloor-Yonge) and they're not that far from one another. I had to actually use Bay station the other night as it's probably my least used station in the core. Both line 1 on the University or Yonge lines wasn't stopping at either Bloor station (St. George or Bloor-Yonge) due to a police investigation around 11pm on May 24th, 2019. Inconvenient right? It's a bit of a walk from Wellesley to Bay station but it had to be done. The only bus route connecting to this station is a transfer required board which is route 6 (Bay). The top of the route starts at Dupont and Davenport not that far from Casa Loma in fact it's not far from Dupont station. The route travels south along Davenport to Bay and south on Bay all the way to Queens Quay before turning left (east) where it eventually loops around at Lower Sherbourne by the FedEx downtown depot. On the Belair Street side entrance just next door is a business called DECIEM The Abnormal Beauty Company. They want you to know that their business is NOT BAY. Their signage kind of looks like Bay station but is not Bay. I guess they had so many people walk in by accident that they not play on that. Funny...

It has been 3 years since my last review of this station and things have changed. GO Transit…read moreintroduced two short trains that start at Maple station, which helps quite a bit. It feels luxurious because you can always find a seat. However, they're only available at 7:19am and 7:49am. This station is much busier than it used to be in the past. Parking is full by 7:30am. GO Transit has also introduced reserved parking spots for close to $100/mo. There are still plenty of free parking spots available, but GO will keep adding reserved spots as more people request them. The number of free parking spots will only diminish. Illegal parking in the parking lot is not worth it, as I hear that tickets are close to the same price as a reserved parking spot. Parking in residential areas is also not recommended due to bylaws. From what I hear from a co-worker who takes the train from Maple station, the Maple parking lot is almost all reserved parking. The station has free wifi now. They always show CP24 news on the TV, which is a great distraction while waiting for the train to arrive. I also enjoy the humor of the customer service reps on the train. "Tracks are for trains. If you're not a train, you shouldn't be on the track." "Thank you for choo-choo-choosing GO."

Commute to downtown Toronto by GO Train. There is free parking, which is nice considering the…read moreticket is a little expensive. But, the train is reliable and there is only one stop from here to Union Station. It's also clean and has nice seats. During non-peak hours, it changes to coach bus service. Takes ~45 minutes to here from Union compared to ~30 minutes by train. You can buy your tickets here from a teller during peak times or anytime from the machine.

Union Station is a major railway station and transportation hub on Front Street West, Downtown…read moreToronto. It is close to Toronto landmarks like Scotia Bank Arena, CN Tower, Rogers Centre, and Metro Toronto Convention Centre. All is accessible directly from the Union Station through the SkyWalk. It is also a shopping, dining and cultural destination with many shops, specialty stores, bacafe's and restaurants, and entertainment with a full calendar of free events. There's also a storage services for your luggages if you need one. Check it out!

Beautiful old building. Lots of vending machines around for snacks, and super easy to get there and…read moreback from the airport. When I showed up there was a pop-up restaurant and band stage going on that was so much fun I stopped and listened to the band for a while before walking to my hotel.

St. Patrick Subway Station is conveniently located on the intersection of Dundas W Street and…read moreUniversity Avenue. Both concourse and platform are wheelchair accessible. The station is well-maintained and it's going through construction at the moment. There's a TTC kiosk if you needed help from an employee and there are self-serve reload machines available to reload your Presto card.

Continuing my tour of Toronto's metro, today we rode the train to St. Patrick station. St. Patrick…read moreis on the Yong-University Line (aka "Line 1") of the metro and is between Queen's Park (towards Vaughan) and Osgoode (towards Finch). The station is named for nearby St. Patrick's Church. It is located under University Avenue at Dundas Street and the station does feature a free wifi network. For me, it was quite close to Chinatown. As with several other stations, St. Patrick has a center platform which means that the doors of the train will open on the left. The station does have access for handicapped and I was able to ride an escalator from the platform level to the ticketing level and then stairs for me to the surface. [Review 11006 overall, 779 of 2019.]

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".

Obviously, I have to recommend this train station because without it you wouldn't be able to go…read morewhere you wanna go if it's someplace off of Danforth. It's obviously a smaller train station than Union Station, but underground. It is quite big from the trains to the actual station. Above ground, there are restrooms and a warmer place to wait then outside where you can see the trains coming. Not much to really say about it, since it is just a train station. The thing I don't like about this station is it's a long walk uphill to get to the street. And when you've got luggage and you're exhausted and it's snowy and icy outside, it's kind of a pain in the butt.

Danforth GO is located on the Lakeshore East line. It's the station right before Union Station…read more This station does not have any parking or a pick up area. There is a turn in for the Main Square Community Centre off of Main Street so I see a lot of people getting picked up and dropped off there. If you're walking on Main Street, there are a set of stairs that lead down towards the station but right now they are closed due to the icy weather so you have to take the long way around. If you've decided to bike, there are bike racks available. Another way of getting here is via the TTC. This is one of the only GO stations on the Lakeshore East line that is close to a TTC station. Main Station is about a 5 minute walk north of the station so you can change transit lines. Switching is a little easier now since both systems take Presto. The ticket counter is only available till 10pm everyday so you will have to rely on the ticket vending machine to purchase your fare after hours. This also means that the indoor waiting room and the public washrooms are not available since this area is locked. There are benches and shelters along the tracks. The station is pretty simple with 3 tracks. There are boards that display the time the next trains are arriving for both the east and west bound directions. I found the track signage to be straightforward and there was signage indicating which streets the exits from the tunnels would take you to. A few other notes from years of taking the GO. I used to take the train in from the east side into work so I can tell you that in the mornings a lot of the seats are taken by the time the train pulls into Danforth station. It's not too bad if you wind up standing since everyone disembarks at Union Station anyways. One might think that taking the GO to get to Taste of the Danforth would make sense but it's actually about a 50 minute walk on Danforth Avenue to the heart of the festival so a heads up if that was your plan.

Kipling Station is the most West TTC subway station. There is a Kipling GO which travels between…read moreMilton GO and Union GO. It also houses MIWay (Mississauga) transit. Definitely got my steps today from Dundas West Station to Dixie GO (where I parked my car). The Milton GO stops running at 7PM.

Kipling Subway Station is a starting point for Subway Line 2 ( Green Line) if you're heading into…read morethe city from the west end. It's clean, easy to find, and connects well with buses and the GO Transit system. There's a pickup/drop-off location on both north and south entrance of the station for quick drop-offs, and the signage around the station makes it simple to get where you need to go. It's also one of the few stations with a washroom. There's paid parking station is accessible with elevators. There's paid parking available for both subway and Go Train riders.

A good stop on the UPX and Kitchener lines. Once the tunnel is done it'll be a lot better.read more

Way faster than trying to drive in busy traffic hours! Could be monitored better though. Disruptive…read morepassengers sometimes. The Go train and Up train tap machines need better signage.