Warden Station

Warden station is one of more unique and over looked stations. Fair bit of people travel in and out through it bus routes. Most can take you through southern scarborough which Kennedy station lacks.
There are more then handful of stations with washrooms but not too many with convenience stores and other opportunities to buy clothes. I think there is even repair shop at warden.
I have stop at warden to get a bite to eat, their parties are famous and good. Much like Bathurst Station patties.
Being an outdoor station means you get cell service but it can get cold on platform. All and all not a bad station

My randomness to Unilocal about a subway station haha. I like this station a lot compared to others. I sometimes take this route especially in the winter.
Why this is a nice station? Has a bathroom, has indoor shelter, has quick food stores with snacks and sandwiches, and most importantly it has electronic signs telling you how many minutes until the next bus comes! Woot woot! :)

The stairs! SO MANY STAIRS. There are stairs going up from the bus bay. a couple of steps going down to the ticket booth area — then there are more stairs leading you to the trains.
The worst design of the stations are the bus bays. There are separate entrances for the separate bus routes. This was the worst when you have options for the routes you take… you have to run up and down the stairs if you want to take a different bus. You can’t see if another bus for another route pulls in without having to run back upstairs and looking down or going back down a flight of stairs to check. Yes, they have flashing signs that notify you — but it’s not ideal. It’s slightly better now that they have installed a board that tells you the arrival times of your bus.
They have 2 bakeries a clothing alteration business, a ladies clothing store and a perfume /​cosmetics store. I have tried the bakeries — they both offer decent options. One is geared towards the «hot foods» and the other is more bakery. The bakery that is furtherest away from the trains serves hot items. Their egg and bacon on a hotdog bun is a good breakfast item. It’s a simple tasty breakfast — certainly beats a mcdees breaky.
The bakery is ok — beef patties are pretty good — they’re the go to items for most people. Their small samosas are good — $ 0.55 each — which makes for a good 2 – 3 bite snack They’re pretty consistent in taste. It’s a samosa — hard to goof that up though.
They had a mice problem at the bakery — look it up — but it’s a subway station– so adjust your expectations of sanitation.
With that being said — washrooms. They renovated their washrooms recently… and I do have to say — if you are in desperate need to go to a washroom at a TTC station, and Warden Station is probably one of the cleanest and nicer TTC washrooms out of all the stations. I am at Warden on a daily basis — and I see the cleaning lady cleaning the washroom on a regular basis. The washroom is well lit as well.
The kiss and ride area can be a mess — because the taxis wait in the same area as well. And the traffic can get congested at peak times. However, there is a small parking lot people can park for 10 minutes at a time to wait for their loved ones… or whoever they’re picking up at the end of the kiss and ride drop off area. (TAKE NOTE! USE IT, don’t block the flow of traffic!)
You can also get cell reception since it is an above ground, outdoor station.

When I searched Warden Station and found that not a single person had ever Unilocaled about it, I felt an instant sadness and a desire to change that immediately. Yes, when compared to its rough and tumble neighbour to the east, I can see how Warden gets overlooked; it just doesn’t have the same street cred. But Warden has its own share of things to brag about.
Not every station can say they have shopping opportunities for commuters, but Warden can. Many a time I have popped into the dollar store there to pick up some random item while on route to work. And how’s this for convenience? There is an alteration place! I can drop off my jacket with a broken zipper or my new pants that need hemming and have them ready to go before I pop on the subway. And if you love patties like I do, I know you’ll be pleased to note the Warden Station ones are pretty decent.
Putting aside all those conveniences, let’s look at the obvious and most important plus. Unlike the soul draining eternal murk of Kennedy, Warden is actually sunny. Heck, even birds choose to live in the main bus concourse, and I am not talking pigeons. I never feel vulnerable standing waiting for the subway because it is bright, open, and spacious. And yep, I know some shady stuff has gone down at Warden too; I am not a complete idealist. But I have frequented Warden five days a week, twice a day for almost fifteen years and I have never once seen it happen myself. Word.