Bay (Toronto Subway)

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Upper level platform

Bay is an underground subway station in Toronto . It is on the Bloor-Danforth Line of the Toronto Subway , at the intersection of Bloor Street and Bay Street . The station is used by an average of 30,860 passengers every day (2015). It is designed in two levels, each with a central platform. The lower level is now a ghost train station and served as a backdrop for numerous films. The Manulife Center and the exclusive Yorkville shopping district are nearby . Bay is known as the location of the central lost property office of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).

history

Network plan of the trial operation in the first six months after opening
Open house in the usually closed lower level (2007)

Together with the Bay station, the first section of the Bloor-Danforth line between the Keele stations in the west and Woodbine in the east was opened on February 26, 1966 .

The lower level of the station (also called Lower Bay ) was only in regular operation until September 1966 after it opened. At the beginning, the operation of the Bloor Danforth line was linked to that of the Yonge University line . Every other train on the Bloor-Danforth Line from the west turned south on University Avenue after St. George Station . From the east every second train reached the lower level of the Bay station, only to then swivel in a southerly direction. The TTC abandoned this type of operation after a six-month trial phase, as it proved to be prone to failure and the hoped-for time gains by not changing trains did not materialize. In addition, many passengers were undecided on which level their train was running, which is why they often waited on the stairs in between and blocked the way for others.

Since the abandonment of the original three-line concept, the lower level is no longer used for passenger traffic, but is still kept operational. This is where new subway drivers are trained, new surfaces for the platforms are tested and trains are exchanged between the routes. Usually the lower level is not open to the public and is cordoned off to prevent illegal “ urban explorations ”. After more than four decades, the TTC held an open day for the first time in May 2007 , which met with great interest.

film records

The TTC began leasing the lower level to film production companies in the 1990s so that they could shoot realistic subway scenes there. In particular, since the shooting of Sag 'not a word in 2001, its importance as a location has increased significantly: The producers left the TTC with the $ 150,000 backdrop, which is modeled on a typical New York City subway station down to the last detail , and since then for numerous other films have been reused.

Films with scenes filmed on the lower level of Station Bay include:

Web links

Commons : Bay  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Subway ridership, 2015. (PDF; 84 kB) Toronto Transit Commission, accessed December 7, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Toronto’s Lost Subway Stations. Transit Toronto, 2007, accessed May 10, 2010 .
  3. ^ Lower Bay's Doors Open. Transit Toronto, June 14, 2007, accessed May 10, 2010 .
  4. ^ Lower Bay's New York Makeover. Transit Toronto, June 14, 2007, accessed July 23, 2010 .
  5. ↑ TTC Diversion Gives Riders Chance To See Station Hidden For 40 Years. (No longer available online.) CityTV, February 23, 2007, archived from the original on July 28, 2010 ; accessed on July 23, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citytv.com
  6. ^ A (Nowhere Near) Complete Guide to Films Shot on the Toronto Transit Commission. Transit Toronto, May 26, 2008, accessed July 23, 2010 .
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