Historicist: "The city that nobody loves"
Elsewhere in the Ist-a-Verse
For six weekends in early 2007, subway service will take an unusual detour through the fabled Lower Bay station(!) In a recent blog post, Steve Munro notes:
Bay Station will be closed, as will Lower St. George. You will be able to see Lower Bay, but not use it. Museum will become the grand transfer station for the two Bloor services and the regular University-Spadina trains which will operate over their normal route.We wonder if this mysterious relic of the TTC's history will look like New York for any of the weekends from February 18th - March 31st, as it often does for movie shoots. We hope you enjoy this glimpse into the past, and look forward to Lower Bay-related tours and festivities!
Check out the full service changes on Steve Munro's site.
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For those who have been exploring Toronto's nooks and crannies for some time now, Lower Bay is old news ;-) It will be interesting seeing it from the subway car though.
Wow! That's awesome! (Annddd since I live in the middle of Bay and Museum stations, not affect me at all -- in fact, it's every so slightly more convenient for me. Yay TTC!)
The one anagram that wasn't thought of yet :)
I'm kind of excited to see it as we go zooming past! (not that we'll be going east of spadina any time soon)
I'm just pissed it won't be happening until February. I am only back in town for a week or two and will miss the chance ride a train through Lower Bay (rather than just walking the tunnel to the station).
All I can say is that some plucky Torontoist person better document that trip (from a few angles) on video.
There are some photos of Lower Bay here and here.
Even better, Marc, at the bottom of that first page, I totally just learned about what those codes over the loud speakers stand for!
Sweet.According to those codes, those janitors sure are busy! Although, oddly enough, you never actually *see* them.