Inside Toronto’s hidden subway stations | Your Morning

[@taekwondotime]

FYI: Toronto is basically "New York" in every Hollywood movie ever made. They just edit out the C.N. Tower. and show NY skylines when they want to see US-based landmarks.

[@leecortez8871]

Not even close....

[@taekwondotime]

@@leecortez8871 And if they want some scenic "American" back country they go and film in Vancouver, BC.

[@siriusxakanscaleguy7147]

@Jefferson Wells shut up

[@blastbottles]

Ye toronto is cheaper to film in

[@jayvonnoelsmith8445]

​@@blastbottlesYea

[@jamilajohnson7460]

I mistakenly walked in this place one time, do not ask me how but I ended up on this empty subway platform, it was surreal. I tried to do it again but was lost on how I got in the first place

[@psychoticpebble]

You were lucky. You looked the backrooms in the eyes and didn't flinch. It's probably why you survived.

[@dodgingbullets3503]

Born and Raised in Toronto...I think Ive been to every subway station in the City...Wonderful memories; I miss my youth there...☺

[@lawrencelewis8105]

There is an abandoned subway tunnel system under Rochester, New York. The tunnels were built but tracks were never put in. It's used for cables, pipes and such.

[@Stanf954]

Andy, we miss you here at NYCT. A sad loss for us.

[@sashineb.2114]

Does anybody remember the entrances from the subway stations (College and Queen) to the former Eaton stores? The murals on the walls of the southbound platforms at those stations cover the former entrances. Escalators used to take people from the platform up to the lower level of the stores.

[@billdang3953]

I heard that there is an abandoned tunnel in between the Royal York Hotel and Union subway station that is currently partly flooded,

[@sashineb.2114]

@@billdang3953 Seriously? There used to be a tunnel that connected Union Station to the Royal York Hotel. It was very convenient for train passengers to get to the hotel. But when they built the new subway platform for Union a few years ago, Front Street was dug up. The tunnel was sealed off. There is a door at the hotel side (lower level) where the entrance was. A coffee shop is in the place where the train station entrance was (lower level).

[@lawrencelewis8105]

@@sashineb.2114 I've walked through that tunnel many years ago.

[@sashineb.2114]

@@lawrencelewis8105 Yes, I've used the tunnel under Front Street many times, too. But now it's blocked off at each end. It was very handy for people to get to the hotel from the train station. I haven't even been to the hotel since they re-built the lobby a couple of years ago.

[@jeffohlendorf173]

@@sashineb.2114 9

[@Xantank]

Lower bay is no “secret”

[@steviedee71]

john son of Morris we used to go in there as kids lol

[@bmw803]

They had a few door open over the years. Went down there in 2007. Nice visit.

[@billdang3953]

Also, there are or were rumours of a Lower Osgoode and Lower Eglington West stations that don't actually exist, these originated because of excavations near the existing stations to move utilities.

[@mdtorres_76]

Yup, I've been in Lower Bay twice, for Open Doors Toronto and Tour. This was the shooting locations of some movies like Shazam and Bulletproof Monk.

[@alfromwork]

0:39 - maybe not use that angle showing missing ceiling panels?

[@sittingbullsittingbull783]

HAAAHHHHHHA 🤐

[@cottagebob2551]

I knew about both these places but didn't know that lower Queen was meant for streetcars. I thought that it was for a future subway line along Queen street.

[@shorty38]

I just learned about the lower queen st station and I was born and raised in Toronto

[@guineapig4701]

I've seen Lower Bay through Doors Open. I find it very interesting to hear all about it. Thanks guys!

[@michaelpark5681]

Yea like Ben Mulroney has ever taken public transit before.

[@terminator1562]

spoiled by his dad. this is probably a part-time gig for him

[@MatrixDiscovery]

They are communists.

[@mejsmith1]

@@MatrixDiscovery A spoiled rich kid is a Communist? Really? Do you even know what Communism is?

[@bornfree1888]

@@mejsmith1 You will never really know until you are a Communist at the top.

[@mejsmith1]

@@bornfree1888 If you think there are Communists at the top, you already proved you don't know. Billionaires who run things don't want Communism. Communism means they are no longer billionaires.

[@mortimersnerd8044]

Been in Lower Bay many times and I've even ridden the turn-off to the University line a few times. In 1966 I used to take the Subway to school at Jesse Ketcham everyday when the lower station was in operation. Never knew about lower Queen though.

[@Kishanth.J]

It doesn’t seem like a bad idea to connect the Queen street streetcar to the tunnel, so then their could be a fare paid zone connection between it and the subway. It not worth the cost now but I think it a cool idea nonetheless.

[@lvalledor3440]

Anybody else come in here in response to the current construction of the future Ontario Line? Seems like finally Lower Queen will finally be of good use in the future for the Ontario Line

[@mohwe1007]

If Metrolinx ever get their shit together

[@countryboyiloveu420]

One time, in Sheppard-Yonge Station, I saw another part of the station that looked old and discontinued, maybe even one of the more obvious lost stations of Toronto.

[@countryboyiloveu420]

In the Sheppard line

[@TechnicaProductions]

The center platform has never been used ever, same with the platform extension at the east end of the station

[@Fredbearsbiggestfan246]

Man Station be going like this🚅

[@gedias1]

I was there on the second day it opened in 2002 That platform was always unused.

[@TrainNutter]

There's quite a lot of these abandoned stations in London. For example: Aldwych, Charing Cross Jubilee Line Platforms (This was a filming location for James Bond: Skyfall), etc

[@JasonGafar]

No way!!!! I never knew all this. I don't really use Bay Station too often, so I've never really noticed this.

[@MarK-iw2xj]

The sealed hallway at St Patrick's station has got to be by far the creepiest.

[@GregoryCampbellSwag]

Never seen it. What’s creepy about it?

[@MarK-iw2xj]

@@GregoryCampbellSwag a murder took place in the 70s in a hallway leading into the subway

[@billdang3953]

There also used to be a tunnel leading from Union Station to the Union subway station.

[@lalani888ARTblue]

When I was a kid ~ 19 years old..I was working at the original Fairweather's location on Yonge St. ~ And got transfered to the first Tip Top Tailors location right nextdoor ~ Dylex owned a good handful of clothing stores at that time in Toronto & across Canada ...Big Steel Man ~ Harry Rosen etc . Tip Top Tailors & Harry Rosen came to fame ~ During the 2nd WW (apparently) ~ As they made suites for the soldiers. Their first location was on the waterfront in Toronto...Then a factory for their business...Now that art deco building is a loft of modern flats & housing ~ When I worked at the Tip Top store ~ I was amazed at the bathrooms downstairs ~ Literally the original ~ Subway tiles for walls & original chrome taps etc. But I always noticed a door between both the male & female bathroom options ~ One day my curiousity got the better of me. I called my manager down and we opened that 'door'. We were absolutely blown away at our discovery. We saw a large drafting table likened to a ping pong table & discovered the original , architectural drafts of the building itself 'still' laying on that table ~ The blueprints! Like NO time had passed. This was around 1984?? There was literally a must of dust particles in the air that glistened ~ But then we saw another door so we decided to see if it was open ~It was! We opened that door & walked into what looked like a pub ...It was so WIERD because all the booze was still behind the bar ~ There were glasses sitting on the bar from patrons ~ There were bar stools and so much dust!! It felt like at some point the owner was forced to just leave🤔🤷 We then opened another door and literally saw a street sign that was enclosed by a wall ~ Like it had been cemented closed...A vertical staircase that lead to 'nowhere'...Ive never forgotten that day...Just south of that was the original F.W. Woolworth building where I also ended up working as a buyer. Crazy days indeed .

[@randomrazr]

@@lalani888ARTblue wut

[@lawrencelewis8105]

I've been through lower Bay many times when the trains diverted. I was expecting posters advertising the all-new Corvair or tune in Sunday night to Ed Sullivan, but no.

[@Vega2099x]

i actually had dreams numerous times of that underground streetcar to subway connections... I wonder if there's anyplace that has them?

[@Bl_mathias112]

union station has one and st clair does too

[@blastbottles]

Queens Quay station is underground but doesn't connect to the subwau

[@jayvonnoelsmith8445]

​@@blastbottlesI thought it did

[@jayvonnoelsmith8445]

​@@Bl_mathias112yea

[@HSMiyamoto]

That double deck station is like the ones that exist in central San Francisco. Muni streetcars on the upper level and BART on the lower level. Interesting.

[@Conellossus]

Come back to NYC Andy!!!

[@chickenbokernot2598]

he was in toronto first rats

[@jamesz6232]

Song at 3:34 mark is Running Out -Jon Boorman

[@paulc5333]

I knew about lower Queen station. Never saw it before though.

[@samweeks3117]

Reminds me of a auditorium at College and young south west corner 7th floor of the condos go north on the floor and there’s a burnt out theatre

[@lawrencelewis8105]

I've been up there about 15 years ago but it has been totally restored. The old Eaton auditorium. It's called something else now, but I don't recall what.

[@calebnewman676]

4:17 It's finally happening! Never say never :)

[@mdtorres_76]

Oh, for Queen Street Station underground eh. I haven't been there but I heard about the undevelop Streetcar station before, which means, the remaining Subway Stations with Streetcar connections are Queen Street (still, at the top), Osgoode, King St, St. Andrew, Dundas, St. Patrick, College, Queens Park, Spadina, Union, Bathurst, Main Street, Broadview, Dundas West, St. Clair, and St. Clair West. There was also Lower Osgoode but no proof. This is one of the reasons why I love Toronto so much, lots of of history.... plus being diverse, multicultural, and people are friendly.

[@jayvonnoelsmith8445]

Bay lower was used back in the day but they shut it down trains run there for practice or commercial

[@johannjasinski]

it's funny how I used to pass that hidden door at queen station when I was little and had no clue what that door was for

[@jayvonnoelsmith8445]

Me to

[@honkleretta1050]

SURPRISE......they found the Queen street station AGAIN,..... Now being opened as part of the Ontario subway line

[@jamesz6232]

Anyone know the song at 3:34 mark?

[@jeremybenoit759]

In China they have done pretty much the exact opposite in some places, they have stations in some places in China that are currently unused, they seem like it but their not retired and abandoned stations, they have been strategically placed in advanced and as the cities grow and the population reach these areas and they become more developed in a few years as they anticipate the stations will then open in these new parts of the city connecting it to the rest of the city that already exists.

[@jamesgordon2995]

What about the disused one by museum station?

[@lisaray101]

Will the pathway of the abandoned Queen street station be used in the construction of the relief line in the future? it would make sense.

[@cal920c]

Given that it was designed to be a streetcar platform, it might actually make more economical sense to build new platforms and trackbeds than to retrofit old ones for modern structural and AODA requirements.

[@ALuimes]

That would still mean demolishing it for the DRL.

[@cal920c]

Demolition doesn't have to occur for new platforms to be built... You just have to consider the vertical and horizontal alignments and how they work with other underground systems and facilities.

[@jayvonnoelsmith8445]

Yes it will

[@phantomcruizer]

And now Andy is president of New York’s transit.

[@emery9316]

lil nippleolas ya

[@UnseenVids]

ye

[@coastaku1954]

Yeah I just look it up and that's bullshit, Andy Byford is still the CEO of the TTC and not the President of the MTA, in fact, there isn't one

[@deansolivan8058]

Coastaku well look again cause your wrong

[@mikebean.]

this is so cool

[@ahsanmohammed1]

Thank you. Interesting. Appreciated. side note: 360p?

[@jayvonnoelsmith8445]

They should build back that streetcar line I find it cool

[@plutoyaldnil4750]

But what about the secret parallel system that is used by banks to still move gold from branch to branch downtown?

[@JasonGafar]

2:55 this entrance, and the exit from Queen Station just across the street, are some of the most disgusting places I've ever been in my entire life. It just wreaks of urine and is so sticky and filthy. It is so disgusting.

[@francineshimizu2205]

Wow! I never knew....

[@drivenhome7840]

Will make a great nuclear Bunker.

[@LibertyRailfan]

Very cool, thank you for exploring..

[@alexanderip1003]

reopen the lower bay station as an Academy for the ​new subway operators

[@mattmax11]

Andy just said they train new subway operators down there.

[@LibbyMia-rz8gk]

@@mattmax11 they say they train "there own" staff there not other operators

[@RobeonMew]

You guys got ripped off. The only show your smalle part of queen street, There are other locations still.

[@eguyatt6813]

I already know both of these

[@dannybans23]

how did you find out about these?

[@brianmcdonald6519]

If you grew up here, or have lived here for a while, you would know about lower Bay. Most people who know about lower Queen, have found out through historical methods. As Ben said, not too may people know of the station beneath Queen.

[@osagiee.guobadia-secondytc4624]

Who knew, The Toronto Transit Comission stations looks just like the Metropolitan Transportation Authority old stations in New York City (only in the United States of America).

[@PhayzinOut]

Even the Bloor Danforth Line cars look like MTA cars from the 80s

[@blastbottles]

@@PhayzinOut they actually were made in the late 90s but their metal body gets dirty very easily

[@transitcaptain]

I knew about Lower Bay, but not Queen

[@davidbaird3560]

how can it be lost if eveyone already knows about bay statrion. its not a secret at all

[@quantumhelium]

Andy Byford is about as loyal as Marquis De Sade

[@stevevasta]

For some reason, I was expecting a third secret station. Did I mishear something?

[@Starlightz_33]

shut up

[@Notjoker123]

@@Starlightz_33 Wow what a nice and civilized person.

[@trainglen22]

Don't think that Mulroney even know what a subway is

[@GUTOMOFFICIAL]

Oh very interesting! Looks like a movie set!

[@ladwigs]

Turn the Queen street space, into an apartment ?

[@sashineb.2114]

I'd read where they will use it when the Ontario Line gets built (if it ever gets built.)

[@KP-05]

There’s no surprise here.

[@jonathanlewis2216]

Of course Canadas New York has to have there city hall station

[@TomAlctel]

This gave me nightmares

[@coscrupi]

Umbrella Academy 2024 Season 4

[@SonjaFirestarter]

Pocket pool Malrooney ! Hahahaha

[@jwillisbarrie]

Please add captions for the Deaf, watched it on TV with captions.

[@joshuahawkes7218]

theirs a thing called subtitles, its on every KZbin video

[@nelly5054]

Foxtrot707 no it’s not on everyyyy video

[@scootermann83]

360p in 2017? Shameful...

[@PortugalMatt]

I think Drake shot his recent music video at the hidden tracks at Bay station

[@RoulinBrooks]

Ben's looking old. And that was nearly four years ago.

[@l.faraday8767]

It’s not a secret. It’s been used many times for movies.

[@raulmonderojr6965]

Oh boy

[@railfanningstuff8333]

360p

[@spankeyguitars8457]

interesting....

[@freesmartdoesfungames9002]

0:15 to 1:15 plays spooky music This video has *666* likes as of January 22, 2021. Coincidence? *I THINK NOT!*

[@MrMrremmington]

Cool

[@kenlivingston3111]

I knew they were there,they use them in movies.

[@alzathoth]

this is one of the reasons why canada's economy is is in such disarray. what a waste of money! they should repurpose these areas for businesses or even low income housing.

[@SailorGreenTea]

0:07, well there is part of a ventilation system to cool Toronto, "end" " global warming" or "climate change".

[@Leatherkid01]

Toronto vs Motreal subway stations ....i prefer Montreals ...eventhough i lived in the GTA

[@44_28-i2n]

Now 46 k people know

[@imvuzuri191]

Why the creepy music.

[@debbiewithtype1diabetes559]

No one Fing uses the numbers and no one knows what Line 1 2 457 is it’s Not used get real

[@knsubs4937]

Yea bay

[@misezdee2771]

Why not make it as a homeless shelter instead...its empty..might as well..

[@funvideofan1625]

Lower Queen

[@billjoe9372]

XO

[@frenchlasagna8138]

Dawkins point is sick

[@brunhildevalkyrie]

Train daddy 🥵

[@kevinsager5054]

If you run into a mercenary army led by a gas-mask wearing luchador...you have gone too far.

[@MatthewB-Kornafel-xv6oi]

Tartarian tunnels

[@chaseliu5011]

bad planning, can be used as a bad example of project management. well the whole TTC is bad comparing to other big cities in other countries

[@troyflanagan173]

looks like Hitler's bunker back in world war 1st war and 2nd WAR

[@JCDenton42069]

Trudeau should be relegated to morning tv show host.

[@drownplayz]

a

[@pebbleinyoshoe532]

I used to smoke weed and drink in the fake station by bay

[@SonjaFirestarter]

Why cant Ben keep his hands out of his pockets? Its so strange. Every single time I have seen him he figits around and plays pocket pool !

[@Labyrinth1010]

Lol, many Torontonians knew these existed.

[@mharlonusana9603]

Yeah, this is gonna be the last time I am ever gonna take the Subway once my Mitsubishi Lancer 2011 is back on the road even though they are building GO Transits across the GTA this year all the way through.

[@jurjanmeskisvili7897]

Have fun driving 40 km/h with it buddy..

[@DET-o4j]

Cool story. Nobody cares.

[@georgevavoulis4758]

Build SUBWAYS 100% UNDERGROUND

[@trainrover]

Ton o' rot, Can o' duhhhhhh => Corporateria 💡💡💡 no matter how flashy they suppose they be becoming, thereabouts still as dumpy as ever :brrrRrr:

[@ralphdom3235]

Been there cruising around with my gay buddies