TTC subway guide and nearby attraction

If you are new immigrant/student in toronto or a tourist, getting around toronto using subway/metro run by the toronto transit commision (TTC) is very essential. There are lot of advantages in taking subway to get around in town. It is very fast, pretty reliable, and easy to reach your destination. Many attractions and essential stores/malls/offices are close to subway. It is normal to see a city grow around the subway lines. Right? Toronto subway is pretty simple. It does not have many lines. There is one line  that goes between east to west and another that goes between north to south. There are couple of small lines one starting from sheppard and another starting from Kennedy.

The east to west lines is called the bloor - danforth line (green line shown in map below). This line runs between Kennedy station on far east of scarborough and Kipling which is to the far west.

The north to south is called the Yonge-University line or something that runs between Finch (station and Downview station. This is a U shaped line and goes from north Yonge/Finch intersection to downtown (Yonge/Front) and then all the way to downsview station via University avenue. The map of TTC subway line is below and this taken from ttc web site.

The reason for writing this blog is to make it easy for you to go all the important destinations using the TTC. Whenever in toronto find the closest ttc subway station. Ask your friend or whoever you can about the closest ttc station. Lookup that station in the above map to get a sense of where you are. Now if you are in the east lets say at Kennedy and want to go to downtown, then take the train that leaves kennedy and goes west towards bloor/yonge station. Get down at bloor/yonge station which is called the interchange station.From that station take the steps up to the next floor from where you can catch the southbound station that goes to downtown. List below will give all the tourist attractions and the closest subway station.

Downtown Toronto subway stations:

Union station: closest attractions are CN tower/ Rogers center, Air canada center/ Toronto downtown Aquarium/Harbourfront, etc.

King station: Financial district, eaton center, trump towers, etc.

Queen station: Eaton center, city hall, nathan square, etc. Street car to woodbine beech from this station.

Dundas station: Dundas square and Eaton center,  Ryerson university, city hall, nathan square, etc

Bloor/Yonge station: Lot of office buildings such as manulife, IBM, churches, yorkville, high end shopping centers.

St George station: Close to University of Toronto downtown location, Royal ontario museum, yorkville, etc.
 
Museum station: University of toronto, Royal ontario museum, and whatever other museums are there.

Queens park station: Close to lot of hospitals such as sick kids, toronto general hospital, and the government buildings.

St Patrick: Art gallery of ontario, air miles building, US consulate office, nathan square, etc.
Osgoode: close to clubbing district, US consulate office, lot of shopping and eateries.

St. Andrew: Close to king/University street, finance district, clubbing district, walkable to union station and cn tower.

East Toronto (Danforth line) subway station:

Kennedy station: is the last east end station on bloor-danforth line and you can take the scarborough LRT from their to Scaborough town center mall.

Coxwell station: this is the station you have to get down to go to India/pakistan bazaars on Gerrard street. You need to take bus from this station to gerrard street. Also, you can get to woodbine beech from here with a short bus ride.


North Toronto (Finch line) subway stations:

St.Clair station: Close to canadian embassy on 55 st.clair street.

Eglinton station: Close to eglinton square mall, mandarin restaurent, eglinton community center, etc.

Yonge/Sheppard: Station from where you can take LRT to go east from yonge/Sheppard.

North York Center: Close to north york center, riocan center, empress towers, etc.

Finch station: You have a go station here.

Donmills station: Connected to fairview mall.

North Toronto (Downsview line) subway stations:

The only station I use so far is the yorkdale station that is attached to the yorkdale mall. Yorkdale mall is a very popular shopping mall. It is renovated and now looks pretty awesome. Check it out. 

How to reach pearson Airport:

If you want to get to airport go to kipling station and take 192 Airport Rocket route. This is all day express bus service between Kipling Station on the 2 Bloor-Danforth Subway and Pearson International Airport.


There is also All-day Airport service from Lawrence Station and Lawrence West Station.The 52A Lawrence West route provides all-day bus service between Lawrence Station on the 1 Yonge Subway, Lawrence West Station on the 1 Spadina Subway and Pearson Airport.

There is a new express train service from Union station that can take you to airport in less than halfan hour.

TTC fares are pretty reasonable and you can find more about it using this link:  http://www.ttc.ca/Fares_and_passes/Prices/


For more information on ttc, visit their website www.ttc.ca

 

Toronto Cab contact numbers :

If you are still lost and need to take a cab, there are couple of cab companies  that I usually take and their contacts numbers is below:


Beck Taxi : 416-751-5555

Royal Taxi: 416-777-9222

City Taxi: 416-740-2222

Crown Taxi: 416-750-7878