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    Union StationToronto
    Eric B.

    Union Station in Toronto is where our Via Canadian Train #1 journey started. The Station was bustling with commuter traffic and the Go Trains came and went into and out of the City. As Gayle and I exited our Cab, she was interviewed by a CBC reporter about the fire-related smoke. As she was a former reporter herself, she was more than happy to help her fellow professional. Then it was onto the Business Lounge to check in and relax over coffee until it was Boarding time. Luggage was checked in separately at any VIA desk or the baggage area below. All aboard! Reflections on our 4 Day/4 Night Trip - Excellent Food and Coffee - Great staff on the train - Variable schedule largely due to freight train priority. - Comfortable and a bit roomier "F" room Sleeper Plus accommodation. - Our berth had a bathroom and sink. The shower was down the hall. - Nice observation car, especially in the limited availability Park Car. - It's a long journey and we really appreciated the stretch your legs stops.

    Chicken Tandoori
    Sylvio L.

    I booked 3 return tickets from Montreal to Toronto (Economy class) and Toronto to Montreal (Business class) so that I can compare and see the difference. All seats are false leather and have headrests. They are comfy enough for the 6 hours ride. They are identical in both economy and business class. If you sit at the windows, there is a cup holder. Train left exactly on time, both times. I chose seats with a table across so that I could get my laptop on it to work. It was wide enough to have laptop and mouse pad. There is one 3 prong outlet at the feet of each of the 4 seats. From my view, can see that all the seats have an electrical outlet. If you need to charge your phone, you should bring a usb block charger. The cars were reasonably clean. Washrooms are also reasonably clean, automatic tap. They are twice the size that of an Airplane. Business class The main difference is that food and beverages are included, but more importantly drinks are served 20 minutes after departure. Choices of non-alcoholic beverages are apple and orange. Alcoholic drinks are house Red/White wine, beer, whisky, rhum, vodka and gin. Main course choices are: Lasagna Alfredo, salmon with garlic potatoes or Tandoori chicken and rice. This is served exactly one hour after departure. Via Rail is a nice alternative to air travel, as it provides less stress since you can arrive about 10-15 mins prior to departure and there is no security check to go through. My experience is a 4 star but unfortunately have to deduct 1 star for the downgraded experience on their booking AND in addition that no one picks up calls or returns messages anymore

    Mai T.

    Toronto is highly populated and this train station when barding makes you feel like sardines in a can. There is not enough seating and so people just wait in line. The building itself is beautiful in architecture from the outside and the main area. Something I found very odd is there is no food court close to the train station like Montreal. If you are picking someone, forget about parking.

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    over an hour late! making me potentially miss my flight... running through the airport and extremely pissed off.

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    Completely incompetence company. Sketchy practices, wastes everyone who depends on it's time without remorse, gouges prices, rude service.

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    Museum Subway Station - Northbound and southbound platforms

    Museum Subway Station

    4.5(10 reviews)
    2.6 kmUniversity of Toronto, Discovery District, Downtown Core

    Museum station obviously is the one closest to the Royal Ontario Museum, not even a block. The…read morestation has good signage to direct you to the proper exit to be closest to the museum and it does NOT have an elevator and is NOT wheelchair accessible. The columns on the platform are quite interesting, built to resemble some of the exhibits in the museum including Doric columns and Egyptian diety Osiris. Museum is on the Yonge-University line ("Line 1") of Toronto's subway system, between St. George (towards Vaughan) and Queens' Park (toward Finch). The station is a center platform, so the doors will open on the left. [Review 11019 overall, 792 of 2019.]

    One of the most gorgeous subway stations in Toronto!!…read more I think this subway station alone should be something that shows up on the tourist attraction. As a commuter, I would often not pay close attention to the stations we're at, but I still remember the first time passing by, and deciding that one day, I would have to visit the ROM so I could get off at this station to see the wonderful totem poles and art installations in the waiting areas. This station is fairly clean and well maintained. A completely appropriate station name too if you were to visit the ROM, the famous museum in Toronto. It's difficult to get lost with a station name like that!

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    Bay Subway Station

    Bay Subway Station

    3.3(4 reviews)
    2.9 kmYorkville

    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...

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    Bay Subway Station - In the abandoned station below the stop tonight is TOFW fashion festival. Packed!

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    In the abandoned station below the stop tonight is TOFW fashion festival. Packed!

    Bloor-Yonge Subway Station - PRESTO kiosk

    Bloor-Yonge Subway Station

    3.1(18 reviews)
    2.9 km

    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".

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    Map heading up to the Yonge St exit - east side

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    Spadina Subway Station - Westbound platform

    Spadina Subway Station

    3.3(16 reviews)
    3.1 kmThe Annex

    Tip: Taking the 510 streetcar gets you to Chinatown, The Well, and Harbourfront. It's cheaper than…read moreparking at any of these places! I recently took the line 2 (Bloor-Danforth) subway from Victoria Park to Spadina. I was heading to a Blue Jays game at Rogers Centre for a work event. It was cheaper to simply take public transportation down to the venue than shelling out for parking nearby. Spadina station holds a special place in my heart. I grew up taking the TTC with my mom to hit Chinatown at Spadina and Dundas Street West. Back then, it was the Spadina 77 bus that ran along Spadina Avenue to and from this subway station. When you leave any line 2 train, you can still see a bus image next to the station name on the platform. I also managed to see several pay phones on the subway platform, which threw me back. In my head, I had Spadina Bus, a song by The Shuffle Demons, playing on repeat as I was at this station. A classic! I may need to find the video version to reminisce about the original 77 bus. Spadina is a subway hub. I went up a set of stairs from line 2 to catch the 510 Spadina streetcar. Back in November 2024, this streetcar wasn't running. Instead, there were 510 buses. Well, I got to ride the streetcar at long last. It was waiting for me at the station. I had no problem finding a seat and taking it down to Bremner Boulevard. I then walked over to Rogers Centre. It was convenient and easy. After the game, it was weird seeing three 510 streetcars heading northbound i a cluster as I walked towards Spadina Avenue. When I got to the streetcar stop, I waited a good fifteen minutes before the next streetcar came. Some things never change. I don't get TTC schedules. Never did. Never will. This subway station is wheelchair-accessible. I saw an elevator as I was heading to the streetcar platform. This station also connects you to line 1 (Yonge-University-Spadina). I remember transferring from line 2 to line 1 as an undergraduate student. I took the subway northbound to Yorkdale to shop at the mall and hang out there. Good times. It was cool being back at this station. Some things have changed, but there are remnants from my past that prompt fond memories. (170)

    Spadina while technically being an interchange station between the 1 and 2 lines is a LOOONG walk…read moreto get from one line to another. Unless you want the exercise it doesn't really make sense time-wise to change lines at Spadina versus changing stations at St. George which is one platform on top of another with only one set of steps to really separate you. Spadina's Bloor platform has Walmer Road as the west exit while the east exit up one level takes you to the street car platform which is indoors (no transfer required) for the 510 Spadina line that goes southbound to Harbourfront. Up and down Spadina ave the dedicated street car platform splits the streets north and south bound directions. There are fare purchase systems for TTC/Presto on these street platforms but it's not like they're gated or anything like that. I've seen so many people get on without necessarily tapping or paying unless they had a transfer already... hard to say and none of my business. Still, it seems that this is one of those locations if you're looking to avoid paying it would be as simple as just getting on the back doors. The new longer street cars build by Bombardier run on this line.

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    Westbound platform with a pay phone

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