Broadview Subway Station

Broadview Station is alright as a building and personal, the problem is the 100A, 100B and 100C buses, all with the same destination but different routes.
Every passenger of the 100 bus has experience this: You’re inside your bus waiting for your driver. In that moment, another 100 bus arrives to the platform, picks up the passengers that are standing up and leave, while you’re waiting for your driver to come from his/​her break. You obviously want to catch the first bus that leaves, but that’s is an uncertain task unless you interview your bus driver every morning. Although there are screens that are supposed to tell you what bus leaves sooner, they’re very often wrong.
This is a very inconvenient situation, specially when you take the bus to go to work every morning and you want to get there on time.

It’s east end stop for the 504 and 505 street cars, its. Nice alternative to head into the downtown core if the yonge line is having issues. Its a nice station at end of Greek town, not an absurd station that doesn’t have anything around it.

The gateway to the Danforth and the real East End. (Sorry Castle Frank) Broad view station has a whole whack of bus connections including the 100 Flemigton and the Mortimer bus. They all take you up north and over the Don Valley into parts unknown. The station is also the Eastern terminus of the King and Dundas Streetcars which are handy if you want to go down Broadview to East Chinatown or Queen East. The station itself is well layed out and never super slammed at peak times (except in the mornings) though there is a steady volume.

Broadview Station is new to me. It’s clean and looks more modern than your average TTC station. I didn’t spend too much time thinking about Broadview Station or reflecting on how it made me feel because I was in and I was out. However, I did spend time on the 100A/​C buses and reflected on how lovely my commutes were. The bus drivers are so nice. I mean, the quality of their service was beyond excellent. The drivers are friendly, energetic, happy, and kind to every passenger. In fact, passengers seem to love going to work in the morning because the drivers are so nice to them. Every driver on the 100 route should be awarded with a fat bonus and a raise. I will gladly give my tax dollars to the TTC if the service is this good. Sadly, a lot of TTC personnel are absolute assholes. They could learn a few lessons from the 100A/​C drivers. I’m sure the 100B drivers are swell too, but I’ve never been on that bus, so I can’t say with certainty.

Technically Pape station is closer for me, but I’ve recently started using this station instead.
I have to walk about 10 minutes to Broadview ave, then take a streetcar up to get to Broadview station. Coming home, I exit at Broadview, take the streetcar south, then walk home.
Why, you may ask?
There are several streetcar routes that service this station. When you exit the subway, you rarely have long to wait before a streetcar arrive that will take you southbound. This compares favourably to the Pape station, where I’ve regularly waited 20 minutes for the 72 Pape bus. Also, this station hasn’t been under construction for several years, like Pape has been.
So while this route might take me a few minutes longer, it’s much more reliable. I avoid the random, frequent, 20 minute delays that are seen elsewhere.
Minus 1 star because the streetcar drivers go on very long breaks at times, leaving a full streetcar just sitting there. When this happens I usually shift over to the other streetcar if it’s there. But they should really stagger the breaks — have one driver take over for the previous driver when they arrive at the station.