Toronto Secret Lower Bay TTC subway station

[there544]

how do u get down there?

[JJKOOKOO]

It is open only when the TTC diverts for repairs.

[there544]

@JJKOOKOO ya obviously, lol. but do you know how to get there otherwise?

[MacChris4691]

If anyone wants to see a full HD documentary filmed in 2011 about the lower bay station check my channel in a couple weeks as it is still in filming and editing.

[LilSC19]

@vistarox Thts why ur comment got spammed

[leafyutube]

I like this. A secret subway station. Just like in old mystery movies and comic books.

[superhornet59]

@leafyutube This one is pretty well known. However, there are much better kept secrets in the TTC system.. very, very interesting ones.

[adamlikestoshank]

@superhornet59

enlighten those of us who aren't gutsy enough to run the tracks :)

[idonotwastenames]

@leafyutube makes me want to go down there and explore

[phillydisco]

The detour is happening again on Mother's Day weekend.

[ac1dman]

I am terribly excited about visiting Lower Bay and Lower Queen now. Any friendly TTC drivers around here who want free beer? :)

[lphead]

OMG that sucks, there was gonna be an Eglinton line and Mel stopped it?

[maddogmcrae]

@lphead It wasn't Mel.

[usermens]

without coment

[Modeltrainguy]

I know the movies "16 Blocks" (Bruce Willis and Mos Def) & "New York Minute" (The Olsen Twins & Eugene Levy) were among those filmed here. Also, "Survive the Night" (Stephanie Powers & Kathleen Robertson).

[igotoyorku]

and that Keanu Reeves movie. Johnny Mnemonic?

[Modeltrainguy]

I never knew that. I never saw 'Johnny Mnemonic'. Thanks for the tip...nest time I catch it on TV or some Movie Marathon...^_^

[shaamshaam]

man this shit is old news OLD OLD NEWS.....me and my buddies went through the tunnels running to lower bay and smoked a spliff!

[FALL0FMAN]

did u see the ghost? how did u get down there

[shaamshaam]

A ghost? what the fuck are you retarded son?...why do I have -6...if you grew up in the city you should know, there's tons of under-ground stations and shit....I would tell you but there's parts where you can't dodge the train if it comes so I rather not...

[FALL0FMAN]

retarded for what? they say theres a ghost down there so i asked if you saw it..its not a hard question, are you retarded son?

[shaamshaam]

shit son, that was a fast reply...nope no ghosts...if they even exsist...man fuck lower bay though, fucking dusty down there kills your lungs! it's fun going up the stairs though cuz you just end up in Bay Station....me and my buddys got there from another station, pretty bad idea considering we where all smashed

[FALL0FMAN]

word up ima do that one time

[shaamshaam]

Just watch out for the cameras on each sides of the platform, stay in the middle...they seem to still be working don't want TTC police after you're ass son

[FALL0FMAN]

word up, thanks yo, where in toronto do you live?

[shaamshaam]

By Davisville station, just follow the weed scent

[shaamshaam]

By Davisville station, just follow the weed scent

[shaamshaam]

By Davisville station, just follow the weed scent

[FALL0FMAN]

haha word up

[vaughanweather]

You know what I don't understand? If Lower Bay is a "dead station" why are there advertisements on the wall? They look like new ads but I could be wrong. I have only been through that station twice, once via train and the second time with a friend who works at the TTC.

[dubq]

The ads are probably leftovers from filmsets, etc. They're not even the same shape as the standard subway ads.

[lexSFC]

Many movie scenes were shot down here... One example is from Bless The Child, where Christina Ricci's character dies. Quite the cool movie, and even cooler that was shot in Toronto.

[stephylove]

thats a good one!, you can get to that easly by foot, but even better than that one... is what we called the bat caves, under old union station is an abandoned subway station, compleat with platform, old trains, old skool tile work and tonnes of homeless people.

[JohnUnit]

how do you get to that? I have homeless freinds that have told me about it, but they' couldnt quite get accross how to find it.

[lionofthejungle]

I recall going through this station and not realizing that it was an abandoned one. Don't I feel like an idiot?

[acresoflove]

Thanks for posting this.

[turboplus]

whoa

[slus90]

Nice.

[88HJS]

I have a sign for the subway diversion in my bedroom. (It was planned to go until March 31, but it was only closed on February 24 and 25, and March 3, 4, 10, and 11; the job was done quickly.)

[OofusTwillip]

How is it that they can get a big job like reinforcing the tunnel walls so they don't collapse done so quickly, but it's going to take them 6 months to overhaul an escalator at King station? That escalator was boarded up a month ago, & the signs say the expected completion date is November. Since then, there's been no sign of any actual work being done on it. How many more escalators are being overhauled in this wonderfully "efficient" way? So much for our "world class" transit system!

[lafflikefuck]

Hey Oofus I was there yesterday and it's fixed lol

[dddoughboyyy]

is it true people had to walk through the tunnels when bay station was closed for construction?

[OofusTwillip]

The only time passengers are ever allowed to walk through the tunnels is as part of a closely supervised & controlled evacuation of a train (which almost never happens). During the recent construction, Bay Stn. was totally closed. Passengers had to use St. George, Museum, or Yonge-Bloor stns. instead. The trains diverted through Lower Bay Stn., but didn't stop to load or unload passengers there.

[Flimflamsam]

I went through Lower Bay a bunch of times during the construction, was glad to as well. Did anyone else notice how much cleaner the tunnels were down on those tracks? I've been in a section of tunnel on the Bloor/Danforth line and they're FILTHY.

[homersimpson943]

hey dumbass, don't you think they're cleaner BECAUSE THEY HAVENT BEEN USED IN 40 YEARS? jesus

[giantwarwock]

Not true.

They were cleaner because sections of the tunnel were painted over to clean graffiti.

[vincecartertorryholt]

GREAT now how could I go to Centre Island now.

[KnoXGokce]

go to union station than take a street car or walk...

[JustCool7]

Id like shots of the other subway lines at Eglinton as well

[newargot]

Eglinton is literally just a hole in the ground. They didn't get to the stage of putting in tracks or roughing out a station.

Lower Queen would be cool to see tough!

[atomeyes99]

actually, from what i understand, the Eglinton line was filled with sand. Lower Queen is nothing but a borded up entry somewhere in the queen subway station.

[thedab101]

The Eglinton line was filled in, despite the fact that the line was fully completed (sans tracks and electrical equipment).

Lower Queen is actually partially used by passengers every day: the underground passage between the north and southbound platforms at Queen are actually the old platforms which would have been used to serve the streetcar subway that was to be built. Behind the walls of the underground passages are the actual tunnels which were to be used.

[OofusTwillip]

We can "thank" former mayor, Mel Lastman for the huge waste of money on the Eglinton line. Before Toronto's amalgamation, Mel had been mayor of the Borough of North York. After amalgamation, he was the first mayor of the new City of Toronto, but he loved North York & wanted a legacy there. So despite all the work on the Eglinton line, he ordered it stopped & capped, & a new line be built along Sheppard (in the former North York borough)...

[OofusTwillip]

...So Mel now has his legacy: a pointless, bare-bones subway line in the wrong place, of 5 stops, ending nowhere (actually, at a shopping mall halfway as far as the line was planned to go, due to funding cuts from the provincial gov't), which nobody uses except at rush hour. Useless, expensive, ugly, a joke---It's the perfect legacy for Mel!

[SadieRaleigh]

It's an even bigger waste of money now that they're "extending" it with streetcars. Talk about $1 billion to nowhere.

[UpsonPratt]

Mayor Mel did NOT cancel the Eglinton-West line. The newly elected PC provincial government did.

From Wikipedia:

"In the 1990s, the TTC began digging a platform under the existing Eglinton West station for the Eglinton subway project, but it was filled in again when the Government of Ontario cancelled the line in 1995.

[lafflikefuck]

So what about the Sheppard West line ? That was yer fucking Liberals

[gundamWWW]

@lafflikefuck

And what about Transit City that was the damn Ford brothers?

There are idiots of all political stripes who make bad decisions.

[OofusTwillip]

They're hidden behind a set of double-grey doors on one of the platforms. People walk past those doors every day, and 99% of them have no idea what those doors are hiding.

[OofusTwillip]

That is, the hidden Queen streetcar-subway tunnels are behind those grey double-doors.

[leerwesen]

you can get to it from a grate outside on the north-east corner of queen, apparently

[joelsterling]

My train yesterday ended up stopping in Lower Bay station because the signals were red

[Izumimon]

How lucky! I was happy just to have been in Toronto on one of the days the detour was happening, since I'm not from the area. It would have been awesome if the train had paused in Lower Bay, even just for a moment!

[Digger1981]

I see this every day at work =)

[indianhead66]

Nice!

[McNabb57Vick]

Thanks for the great video. I love how the driver was like a tour guide, talking about how the station is used.

[thenay84]

Always nice to see what we don't get to see, thanks for sharing :)