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SEPTEMBER 2021 Volume XLIV
Commuting in the GTA A Beginner’s Guide ASHLEY RIVERA Cannon Writer Imagine this: it’s Friday, so you and your friends are planning on grabbing dinner after class to celebrate the end of the week. It sounds like a fantastic idea and a great way for you to explore some of Toronto, but there’s one problem: the restaurant isn’t within walking distance. How will you get there? Sure, Uber is an option, but there’s a more walletfriendly way to get to your destination: public transit. Here in Toronto, most of it is run by the Toronto Transit Commission, or the TTC for
short. The TTC is responsible for running and maintaining numerous bus and subway routes that span across the city. It doesn’t matter whether you want to get from downtown to the suburbs, or from the west of the city to the east, the TTC is capable of taking you wherever you want to go as long as it’s within Toronto. Let’s start by introducing Toronto’s subway lines. There are four in total: the yellow line (Line 1), the green line (Line 2), the blue line (Line 3) and the purple line (Line 4). The yellow line is the most used subway line in the city, as it connects downtown Toronto (“Old Toronto”) to
the northern suburbs. If you want to get around Toronto from campus, you’ll most likely be using the yellow line for at least part of your journey, as most campus buildings (including Chestnut Residence) are a short walk away from a subway station on the yellow line. The subway doesn’t restrict you to north-south travel. Using the green line, you can travel from downtown to Etobicoke, a suburb west of downtown, or to Scarborough, a suburb east of downtown. Getting to the green line is simple – there are a few stations on the yellow line that allow you to transfer
to the green line. Some of these transfer stations are easily accessible from campus, like St. George Station, which is only a ten-to-fifteenminute walk away from the engineering buildings. The blue and purple lines service a very small portion of the city and are located a considerable distance away from the campus. You probably won’t find yourself using them too much, unless you find yourself in Scarborough, serviced by the blue line, or in the eastern parts of North York, which is serviced by the purple line. Transferring to these two lines is also possible using other
subway lines. If you want to travel on the purple line, you can transfer there using Sheppard-Yonge Station, which is located on the yellow line. To transfer onto the blue line, use Kennedy Station, which is located at the eastern end of the green line. If you can’t get to your destination exclusively by train, then you can catch a bus or a streetcar. The TTC’s surface routes run along most major roads in the city. Most bus and streetcar routes converge at platforms located at various subway stations, Commuting continued on page 4
It’s Our Year... Right? can even be impacted in our regular lives because of their losses. Toronto has multiple It’s our year… right? major sports franchises with If you really take the time enormous fan bases, and to stop and think about it, having lived in Toronto for the professional sports are quite last 18 years, here are some of odd. In terms of physical the highs and lows you can ability, the top one-percent expect by cheering for some of the human population of the major Toronto teams. put themselves under both immense physical and mental The Toronto Maple Leafs. pressure for the entertainment Toronto’s hockey team. of other humans across the The Toronto Maple Leafs world. We, as fans, eat it right could be considered a religion up. here in Toronto. Saturday As fans, we take huge Our Year pride in the success of the continued on page 4 teams we support, and we TUDOR SIGMUND Podcast Lead
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