The Bloor-Danforth Subway - Toronto Transit History
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- In this video I look at the history of Toronto's second subway line, the Bloor-Danforth Subway (Line 2). From its origins as a streetcar subway on Queen Street to the crosstown subway that exists today.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:14 - Chapter 1: Origins
3:42 - Chapter 2: The "Flying U"
7:20 - Chapter 3: The Subway Plan
10:20 - Chapter 4: The Second Subway
14:46 - Chapter 5: 2 Lines, 3 Services
21:02 - Chapter 6: The Subway Leaves Toronto
27:51 - Chapter 7: The Future
31:25 - Conclusion
Information from: transittoronto.ca/subway/5104...
Photos from:
transittoronto.ca/subway/5104...
www.stationfixation.com/
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/s...
All animated maps created in Adobe After Effects
Video edited and rendered with Adobe Premier Pro
![[Unbuilt Toronto] - The Downtown Relief Line](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8hH1BlDeAj8/mqdefault.jpg)
I'd really love to see an extension of Line 2 to Square One eventually, it truly would be the natural terminus as it's not only the largest shopping centre in Ontario and a bustling office and residential buildings cluster; it is the second largest GO Transit terminal after Union, largest MiWay bus terminal, and future interchange of the Hurontario LRT with the Mississauga Transitway. Having all the services converge at that point is really smart planning.
Not even that expensive to build comparative to Scarborough, depending on the alignment, as it could piggybank at grade or elevated on the Milton GO corridor for much of its length.
I agree to Square One
I strongly agree that they should do this. This would make a direct seamless connection of the Mississauga centre, Downtown Toronto, and Scarborough centre all in one subway train ride, and the alignment of it is more than perfect enough.
more likely now to see a Tram/LRT line from Renforth connecting to the under construction Eglinton Line .
They had plans to do so. But, the Region Of Peel and the Mayor of Mississauga at the time said no.
As a retired Bloor-Danforth Subway driver I found this video very interesting. Thanks for the research.
I really do hope the line gets extended to Sherway gardens at some point.
@@July1st1867 No reason it couldn't make it's way to Cooksville GO after stopping at Sherway gardens. If you look at the original plans to extend to Dixie Go it would dip down to Sherway gardens and then back up to the rail corridor at Dixie go and then could follow the corridor to Cooksville.
It should go all the way to Highway 10 along the Hydro right of way with a few grade crossing separations to meet the new light rail in Peel?
the fact that we're building transit extensions for billions, and in the 70's they viewed tens of millions as too expensive, just goes to show how ridiculously undervalued transit was at the time.
The Scarborough Subway Extension just broke ground.
Line 5: Kennedy Station to Mount Dennis Station and Line 6 Finch West Station to Humber College Station
As someone who works at Queen and Soho, the Flying U proposal would make my life 1000 times better
The TTC Is Planning to Extend The Bloor Danforth Subway East to Scarborough Centre Station on Line 3
And theyre Building LRT Lines such as Line 5 Eglinton Crosstown and Line 6 Finch West LRT
Love to see old subway photos!
20:30 I well remember that charter rail trip, I was on the train. It stopped at places that public trains don't go, including the museum Y, Lower Bay, and around the Greenwood Yard. Ironically, it wasn't the "last Harrah" for the Gloucester cars; they were pressed into service for weeks and maybe months afterwards.
You always have great videos to learn from and thinking from what this city could've been, great video and keep it up! 👌
You are an underrated youtuber, your content is informative and of great quality. Keep up the good work
Hopefully u make a video about Line 1, this video was so amazing, great work :D
Man a Sherway Gardens station would be absolutely bitchin'
Highly unlikely (also, not really necessary) to see an extension further West for a few reasons
1. GO improvement and electrification projects, which will end up in there being two-way 15min Rush hour service along Milton GO, and hourly two-way service rest of the day
2. Kipling is the GO Station, and a perfect transfer point
3. the GO Line will have a transfer with Hurontario, which will provide access to rest of Ssauga.
4. they JUST opened a huge bus terminal at Kipling, which hosts all Miway routes now, as well as frequent, express, and local TTC routes
Great video!
Line 2 HAS NOT BEEN EXTENDED SEEN 1980!?!?!?
From 2010 to 2015 I said the most important subway extension in Toronto was the extension to East Mall (Honeydale). Basically, a one stop, at-grade extension would remove a number of Mississauga and GO buses from Dundas.
It would also show that not every subway needs to be underground.
There were plans to extend line 2 west along CP tracks from Kipling to Square One. Don't know what happened...
These videos are awesome, you should have 100k subscribers at a minimum!
Do you also plan to do the history of the Line 1 subway?
Yes, after I have done a video on the Yonge Streetcar. So it will be a couple of weeks before I get there.
At Main Street Station - the only station on the line to actually have 'Street' in the name - you can still see the outline of the collector's booth on the mezzanine level, on the north side, just past where the stairwells to the bus terminal are.
As for rising costs of subway construction. I've often wondered what the greater markup has been. Is it cost of materials? Or is it cost of labour?
At least the three stop Scarborough extension better than the one stop idea. Clearly whoever thought taking out 5 stops and replacing it with one was a good idea has never taken transit. That’s what kills me the most about most of the people making decisions about what we should get based off numbers on paper alone
The Scarborough RT was almost converted to a LRT but ford wanted a subway
Love your vids; especially those on more obscure transportation projects in the Greater Toronto Area (like the Etobicoke RT). I'd love to know what the music at Chapter 3 (7:20) is though.
Running On Time from the game Locomotion.
@@METRO6 Thanks; I too was thinking it was in a transport-related game, seeing as some other music used here is from SimCity, Cities XL, etc.
This video was post three days before the Bloor-Danforth subway's 55th anniversary.
Looks like decision making was a problem back in the mid 1900's as well. Imagine if they'd built a subway along Queen, Bloor and Eglington in the early days!
Good video
Didn't Hazel McCaillon oppose a subway extension into Sauga?
I was still 19 when it opened in 1966😊
On you Toronto subway evolution video, you did not cover the six months in 1966 with three services between Woodbine, Keele and Eglinton.
Always wanted to know how the line I take was built thanks :)
Good job on all your videos rewhacted for sure :). :)
I can see two other possible Western extension ideas.
1. To Sherway Garden and then south to Long Branch
1.a. and then possibly to Port Credit, connecting with Hurontario. (which.... will parallel the GO Line that's gonna provide all-day two-way 15min service.
(A streetcar line branching off of Queen Streetcar, along Queensway to Sherway Garden to connect, would be very nice)
2. North along where Etobicoke RT was supposed to be, to Renforth, connecting to Transitway and to Eglinton LRT.
11:13 "Construction of the line would require the expropriation of 800 properties, 70% of which were residential. The subway itself would run almost entirely north of Bloor and Danforth"
I'm really confused why they put it north of those streets rather than cut-and-cover under them. Must have been massively expensive.
it was the 60's, the idea of interrupting traffic was a cardinal sin. they'd literally rather bulldoze homes.
@@Skyfoogle That's not even a 60s thing. It's a current thing too. Instead of using cut and cover for our new underground transit projects in places we clearly can get away with it, we use expensive tunnel boring which also causes exceedingly deep subway stations like those on TYSSE and Line 5
Line 5 with 25 Stops, 10 above Ground and 15 Below Ground and Line 6 with 16 Stops, 15 Above Ground and 1 Below Ground
I've always wondered what's that music at the start of the conclusion section at 31:26. It sounds really familiar, it is from Skyline Cities or SimCity?
Cities XL
@@METRO6 would you consider making a public playlist of all the music you use? I really enjoy all the tracks
Very well done. Exhaustive research I’m sure.
whats the music that starts at 14:47?
do a video on line 5 and 6 (Eglinton and Finch West)
It's would be so cool if line 2 went my favorite mall square one
If you can’t talk about the eastern extension in this video, why not make an addendum?
Had that exact same thought
I will do one, I just don't know when yet. I would love for there to be some more documentation about the stations at Lawrence and Sheppard (i.e designs) but those are probably still a couple years away.
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