The
Yonge-
University-
Spadina line is one of
Toronto's three
subway lines, the other two being the
Bloor-Danforth subway and the
Sheppard subway. This line runs
north-
south along
Yonge Street, makes a
180 degree turn at
Union Station, and continues along
University Avenue until it hits
Bloor Street. After this, the line briefly runs along
Spadina Avenue before branching off further to the west. In order to illustrate this, here is a rough
map of the line, along with each of its stations:
^ Finch
N North York Centre
Downsview Sheppard . . . . . . .
Wilson |
Yorkdale York Mills
Lawrence West Lawrence
Glencairn |
Eglinton West Eglinton
\ Davisville
St. Clair West St. Clair
\ Summerhill
Dupont Rosedale
. . . . . Spadina--St. George . . . . Bloor . . . . . . . .
Museum Wellesley
Queen's Park College
St. Patrick Dundas
Osgoode Queen
St. Andrew King
\-Union-/
The Yonge-University-Spadina line intersects the
Bloor-Danforth line at
Spadina,
St. George, and
Bloor stations. Transfering at
Spadina requires a bit of walking, which means
St. George is usually faster, unless it's out of your way. This line also connects to the
Sheppard subway line, which begins at
Sheppard station and runs east.
The subway runs from 6:00 AM to 1:30 AM, except on Sundays (when the subway doesn't start running until 9:00 AM) and holidays. A generally useful page for schedule info can be found here.
Toronto landmarks that are located on the Yonge-University-Spadina subway line (and the stations closest to them):
Old City Hall/New City Hall/Nathan Philips Square/Osgoode Hall: Old City Hall is now a courthouse, but is still an interesting building to look at. Beside it is Nathan Philips Square and the new(er) City Hall building, which is also interesting, albeit in an entirely different way (try doing a Google image search for Toronto City Hall; you'll see what I mean). Bordering the square on the other side is Osgoode Hall, which has some really beautiful grounds (it's where my uncle had his wedding photos taken). The walk from Osgoode to Queen station (west to east) takes you past all of these, before arriving at the Eaton Centre.
The Eaton Centre: Connects to both Dundas and Queen stations, as well as the underground PATH walkway. Also somewhat interesting architecturally, it is still, at the end of the day, a mall. That said, much of the ceiling and walls are designed to let in lots of sunlight, there's a nice fountain in the middle, and there are famous geese hanging from the ceiling (no, really).
Union Station: A landmark in and of itself, with a great huge cavernous ceiling that I quite like.
The Royal Ontario Museum: Located at the aptly-named Museum station, this venerable stone building is about to have a huge crystalline mass grafted on to one end of it (if you didn't like the first addition, you're probably going to hate this one). Still a good museum, though.
Queen's Park: In addition to housing the Ontario Legislature, there is also an actual park here by this name, which divides the University of Toronto campus into its east and west components (getting from one end to the other in ten minutes is a challenge familiar to many students). While Queen's Park station has a direct link to the Legislature, the park itself is actually closer to Museum station.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery: You can see the cemetery from the subway when you're heading north to Davisville station. It's quite nice to look at, being at the crest of a hill with trees and groves and so forth, but as a destination in and of itself, I suppose it depends in large part on how much you would enjoy wandering around a cemetery. Alternately, if you take your bike with you, you could probably make it down to the foot of Yonge Street without pedaling once (well, if you got lucky with the traffic lights, anyway).