Exploring Toronto's Pedestrian Hostile Warden Station
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- A walk around Toronto's Warden Subway Station and riding the subway one stop to Victoria Park Station.
Recorded in 4K at 60 FPS on Thursday, January 12, 2023.
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The coldest, dirtiest station in winter. But the beef patties are fire.
With an Orange Crush.
I love this kind of video, especially subway stations and rides!! 🎉 Thanks Johnny
I did comment on the video you made two years ago but Warden is the station my mom used a lot when she used to live in the nearby Birch Cliff neighbourhood. This involved her taking the 69 Warden South bus. Going to this station brings back memories for her, including Victoria Park when she would take the 12 Kingston bus. At Warden station, the nostalgia of running down the stairs to the single bus bays is real but for long as again, the whole station will be completley reconfigured.
Victoria Park station also used to have that same bus bay configuration Warden has until 2010-2011 when the subway station itself got a fresh renovation and installed elevators.
The stretch of Line 2 between Warden and VP is one of my favourites of the line as you get to zoom as fast as you can in either direction the train is travelling. It’s also interesting that you can look out towards the woods, the green spaces and passing by the typical postwar suburban homes of Scarborough. I also like getting glimpses of the squirrels that roam around the area while I’m passing through at high speed.
Warden Station is my favourite station in Scarborough
There you go again absolutely another spectacular beautiful shooting filming footage and you are doing such an amazing job, appreciate your beautiful sharing, stay warm .. TQ
Yes Johnny. Warden Station is a horrible station. I've used this station off and on for 50+ years. This station needs a complete renovation Thanks for showing it.
@andywood5699 no it needs rebuilding
Nice tour around Warden station Johnny! I’ve done so many subway action videos at that station. It’s one of my favourite stations on line 2.
We have been there a few times. And you are right about it.
good morning everyone
Its Scarborough, 'nuff said.
Good morning
Love this. I really like the ride from there to Victoria Park station because of the beautiful scenery the trains pass by!
Thanks for the tour of Warden station.
Awesome tour around Warden Station Johnny
Good video Johnny, might be cool to check out Kennedy and how much it's changed from Line 3 closing
Warden was not meant to service a neighbourhood like Eglinton for example. In my youth from 1968 to 1980 Warden was the eastern end of the subway line as Johnny mentions. Kennedy was opened in 1980. Warden was mostly used by commuters who bussed to it from their neighbourhoods, dropped off family or friends at the "Kiss and Ride" (Pick up), or parked and then rode the subway into the city. Not hostile so much as not primarily intended for pedestrian access. While it was the terminus station, there were a lot of places to sit including a decent-sized restaurant that had a large counter you could sit at to eat, reminiscent of stereotypical bus terminal diners. The station was crazy busy in the 70s. It looks empty today!
"Pedestrian hostility must be abolished at any cost!" - 21st century pedestrian rights activist Johnny Strides. haha
Hello my friend, I hope you are well. Thank you for this video
The tiles of the station are quite nice and that they resemble Islington station at the other end of Line 2. You can see that they have started construction on completley reconfiguring the station and its bus terminal, which is needed for accessibility. Gen X’ers, millenials and zoomers will miss the times of seeing the route number being flashed then making the mad dash to catch the bus lol
great video
There is very little snow in Toronto 😊
you are right about Warden station what mess I would like to see Warden woods some time thank you
14:55 Yeah very interesting view, Johhny. You should do a walkthrough of that area, it's called Cataraqui Crescent and Firvalley Court.
urban planning in the 1960s was such a bizarre social experiment. imagine designing a subway station, a transportation hub for moving people, as if cars and buses were the only way people would consider getting to it.
also bus terminal design is absolutely heinous, inefficient and gives 0 consideration to the disabled, elderly, pregnant, or anyone who might not be able to use stairs for any reason. whoever designed this station had issues.
It doesn't just happen in Scarborough. My closest subway station, Christie, is a nightmare for anyone with any mobility issue.
@@gilraen789 true, though christie can fairly easily be retrofitted with an elevator to move people from platform > concourse > street level and vice versa. warden is so poorly designed over half of it needs to be completely demolished and rebuilt to be made accessible.
Great video. Maybe some time you can venture to Bluffers Park and area. 😊
Does someone know, if and where I can find a clean version of that three-note-fanfare that is played at the beginning of an announcement in the subway stations?
Agree with the "bleak" assessment - I lived not far from here, decades ago, and volunteered one block away. For a few weeks in summer, when the park, creek and trails were accessible, this station was bearable. But the rest of the year, I did not feel welcome.
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Was wondering if this is a new video as you have been to Warden Station in the past.
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Are you taking the 1o8 or sheppard W
Even more pedestrian hostile (at least last summer) was trying to transfer from the Kennedy GO station to the Kennedy subway station.
2:15 That's how people from Scarborough spell it. . . Just like people from Toronto pronounce it Scarbro 2:11
Johnny would it be possible to explore some of Toronto's suburbs? I'd like to see how people live 😊
This area (and others like it in the Inner 'Burbs) are despised by Johnny, which is why he lives in (and does his videos in) midtown and downtown Toronto.
johnny hates warden st lol
Who wouldn't?
THIS SUBWAY STATION POTENTIALLY MARKS THE PEAK OF ONTARIO INFRASTRUCTURE
warden station has been a wasteland since centennial college closed
I found this station to be very run down and ugly. It's due for a restoration