Toronto Transit Trivia

[ShonTron]

Here's a good one:

What does the practice of "soaking", in TTC-speak, refer to?

 

[Voltz]

Here's a good one:

What does the practice of "soaking", in TTC-speak, refer to?

When a driver runs ahead of schedule, with the intension of leaving the following driver with more passengers and his own vehicle with fewer.

This is one of my pet peeves

 

[CDL.TO]

Here's my question: Where would one find the shallowest entrance to an underground station? Consider street level to platform level.

Wellesley, perhaps?

 

[ShonTron]

When a driver runs ahead of schedule, with the intension of leaving the following driver with more passengers and his own vehicle with fewer.

This is one of my pet peeves

Got it.

But it can also refer to a bus being directly behind another one and intentionally staying so, rather than passing and collecting the growing crowds further down the route.

Either way, it refers to a driver intentionally not helping with the loads in the interest of laziness.

 

[Chuck]

All good guesses, however I believe that the shallowest entrance to a subway station is the Pleasant Avenue entrance to St. Clair. At that location, the subway platform lies only 21 steps down from street level, which is only slightly deeper than a typical floor in a building. It is possible that the Sheppard platforms are even shallower at Sheppard-Yonge station, however you can't access them directly from the sidewalk.

 

[adma]

Would Keele count as "shallowest"?

 

[andomano]

Would Keele count as "shallowest"?

If so, then there would be a tie between it and Warden, Yorkdale, Vic Park, Kipling, Wilson etc.!

 

[nfitz]

All good guesses, however I believe that the shallowest entrance to a subway station is the Pleasant Avenue entrance to St. Clair. At that location, the subway platform lies only 21 steps down from street level, which is only slightly deeper than a typical floor in a building. It is possible that the Sheppard platforms are even shallower at Sheppard-Yonge station, however you can't access them directly from the sidewalk.

I'd be surprised if it is 21 steps from the the eastern entrance to Lesie to platform level - particularly as you have to walk up to the entrance, before going down the stairs. I'll count next time I'm there.

 

[Railization]

What Yonge Line (Union-Finch) station is the farthest east of Yonge St.?

 

[Second_in_pie]

I'm gonna have to say St. Clair, but I'm probably wrong

 

[Railization]

I'm gonna have to say St. Clair, but I'm probably wrong

It is not St.Clair.

 

[ShonTron]

I'm gonna guess Bloor.

 

[threnody]

Wellesley?

 

[adma]

Back to shallow subway entrances: how shallow is the Glen Rd entrance to Sherbourne?

 

[Amphibius]

Wellesley's definitely the right answer. The tracks veer farthest away from the Yonge St corridor at this point.