The Toronto Traveler

Photo Credit: toronto subway buttons ~ looking north by striatric on Flickr, used under the CCA-SA 2.0 License
If you read The Toronto Traveler on a regular basis, then chances are you’ve seen me refer to the city’s subway system more than a few times.  Toronto is one of those cities that would not be the same without its subway system.  Besides allowing hundreds of thousands of people the chance to get to work every day, the subway and the larger public transit network within Toronto and the surrounding area is absolutely essential for tourism in the city.  This is why …read more

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Well, just before I get to the event I want to talk about, I’d just like to apologize to all TTT readers for the videos that I posted over the last two days not working.  I figured I could just set and forget while I worked on my assignments and so I didn’t notice until just now when I logged in to look at them that none of them had posted properly.  I’m not really sure what’s up with that since I copied and pasted the embed code from YouTube, so if one of the other bloggers who have posted …read more

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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 full map of the subway system as it currently exists in Toronto can be found here and while understanding the system enough to be able to navigate to different places in the smallest amount of time takes some practice, there are a few things that …read more

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