St. George Station

being so close to the yonge-​bloor station, this is the west end busiest transfer station (2^nd busiest overall in the system), the lines run parallel, having said that the station is multi floored, with escalators and elevators with great spacing. this station also has a lot of options for entrances and exits. a really great location with lots to see and do on the surface, just make sure to stay out of the way of people running. sometimes though, it is fun to ride the bottom loop of the YUS line.

One of the busiest stations on the TTC, with connections to both the Bloor line and the Spadina University line as well. Hellish during rush hour, its pretty decent the rest of the time. Its also a better connection than Spadina because you don’t have to walk for 5 minutes in the station, the lines come in right on top of each other. Also the original point for the all too infrequent Dupont bus.
I’m not a huge fan of the green colour.

How do I review this station without letting my disdain for the TTC get in the way? Hmmm…
How about I just tell you about the station? In case you don’t know St. George (I like to call him San Jorge) is the patron saint of jolly old England lad (and lasses). Did you know if the other two saint stations not named St. Clair are also patron saints of Ireland and Scotland? That’s right Saint Patrick (aka San Patrizio) and Saint Andrew (San Andreas).
Now stay with me because this will make your mind explode if you haven’t already fallen asleep… If you were to combine the flags of St. George (red cross over white), St. Andrew (white cross over blue) and St Patrick (red X over white) you get the Union Jack flag aka the flag of the United Kingdom?
OK enough of the history BS. I made that all up… actually no I didn’t I’m just making sure you haven’t lost interest just yet while I play this shell game of writing things completely irrelevant to St. George.
So this station is special in a sense that it is one of the main interchange stations in all of the TTC system. In rankings of importance it’s right up there and probably 3^rd just behind Union (first) and Bloor/​Yonge (second) in my personal ranking system of things. I like ranking things don’t ask me why but ya I consider this station 3^rd.
This station is physically on the north side of Bloor Street between Prince Arthur and Bloor directly behind the OISE building of U of T (252 Bloor W). There are 2 entrances/​exits while one faces St. George itself and the other is at Bedford.
This station is on 3 levels. Ground level is where you enter/​exit, buy tokens and such. The next level down is the 1 line (yellow line) which runs on the Spadina/​University side (Downsview endpoint) and the Yonge side (Finch endpoint). This line runs right through the core of downtown from Bloor south through Queens Park and down University Ave to Union station before turning back up Yonge Street going all the way up to Finch Ave.
This line is basically know as the «north-​south» line and has recently been given the designation as «1» in the TTC’s elaborate naming system.
The next level down is the level for access to the Bloor Danforth line also known as «2» or if you are into colors it can also be called the green line. This is essentially your east west line that runs from Kipling to Kennedy.
Really though nobody here calls any of these lines here by colors. This isn’t Boston and the numbers thing is new but this isn’t New York either. We don’t have enough lines to be getting into letters either. Let’s just say «3» should be part of «2» and «4» shouldn’t even exist.
San Jorge station is an important station because as far as interchange stations goes this is one of them and it can get very busy here.

The station itself is not the best but its famous because it connect both major lines as they run above and below so you don’t to walk to far.

Theres not much here but I can connect without walking in a big 7 minute circle (unlike Spadina), so it gets an extra star above Spalding station just for that.