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The Toronto Traveler

Archive for the ‘Getting Around - Local Transportation’ Category

May 20th, 2008

Touring the City on the TTC - Route 506

The City of Toronto is a very diverse place and even when you are not at one of the major tourist attractions, you have the chance to see something spectacular.  If you’re interested in a way to tour the city as us locals see it, then I’ve come with a way that you might […]

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April 27th, 2008

Subway Sundays: 5 Tips for Navigating Toronto’s Subway System

While I’m pretty well convinced that Toronto has one of the best subway systems in the world, at the same time I’m also convinced that it can give people some nasty surprises from time to time.  Having lived in the city for over 15 years now and taken the bus to school and work for […]

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April 20th, 2008

Subway Sundays: Five Reasons Why Toronto’s Subway is Important

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1) Strikes Affect the City Massively: The TTC has been on strike before; many times in fact.  During my own time in primary, middle, secondary and now post secondary school, the TTC has had at least three different strikes that I can remember off the top of my head and there were probably […]

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April 13th, 2008

Subway Sundays to Begin Today

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A few days ago, I wrote a post that talked about how Toronto subway stations have distinctive tiling and how that tiling had been captured by a set of buttons that were now on sale.  While that post was originally just going to be a stand alone post in and of itself, it […]

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November 21st, 2007

Some Tips for Using the TTC Subway System

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC for short) is the government authority that controls and maintains the subway system in Toronto.  They are responsible for not only making sure that the current stations and trains remain in good authority, but they are also responsible for making additions whenever the funding they receive allows for it.  A […]

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