The Toronto subway is a rapid transit system serving Toronto and the neighbouring city of Vaughan in Ontario, Canada. It is operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), an agency of the City of Toronto. The subway system is a rail network consisting of four lines: Line 1 Yonge–University, Line 2 Bloor–Danforth, Line 4 Sheppard, and Line 6 Finch West. In 1954, the TTC opened Canada's first underground rail line, then known as the "Yonge subway" and now part of Line 1, under Yonge Street between Union Station and Eglinton Avenue with 12 stations. As of 2025, the network encompasses 87 stations and 80.4 kilometres (50.0 mi) of route. In 2024, the system had a ridership of 331,789,000, or about 1,079,700 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2025, making it the busiest rapid transit system in Canada in terms of daily ridership. As of December 2025, there are 43 stations under construction as part of two new lines – Line 5 Eglinton and the Ontario Line – and two extensions to existing lines. Line 2 Bloor–Danforth Opened in 1966, the Bloor–Danforth subway runs east–west under or near Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue. It replaced the Bloor streetcar line (which also served Danforth Avenue). Initially, the subway line ran between Keele station and Woodbine station. In 1968, the line was extended west to Islington station and east to Warden station, and in 1980, it was further extended west to Kipling station and east to Kennedy station. Terminal station reversals and short turns A Toronto Rocket train using the crossover at Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, a terminal station, to reverse The heavy‑rail subway lines were built in multiple segments with multiple crossovers. These are typically used for reversals at terminal stations, and allow arriving and departing trains to cross to and from the station’s farside platform. They are also used for short‑turning trains at some through stations in order to accommodate emergency and planned service suspensions. Planned service suspensions generally occur on weekends for maintenance activities that are impractical to perform overnight. There is only one regular short‑turn service that occurs during the morning rush hour on Line 1 Yonge–University when some northbound trains short turn at Glencairn station. On the former Line 3 Scarborough, light metro trains were not able to switch direction except at the ends of the line because there were no intermediate crossovers between the two termini. Thus, no short turns on Line 3 were possible. Route Map Line 3 Scarborough Line (Closed in 2023) Stations Kipling Islington Royal York Old Mill Jane Runnymede High Park Keele Dundas West Lansdowne Dufferin Ossington Chirstie Bathurst Spadina St George Bay Bloor-Yonge Sherbourne Castle Frank Broadview Chester Pape Donlands Greenwood Coxwell Woodbine Main Street Victoria Park Warden Kennedy Rolling Stock Toronto Rocket Train T-1 Subway Train G-1 Subway Train (Seperate Add-on) bye lol
I'll actually be riding this system for the first time next month, and am pretty excited in general for my first trip to Toronto. While I think it would be cool, I'm fairly certain the TTC would have the same security restrictions as the MTA here in New York.
