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Popular Transportation | Other Transportation Tips | All Tips (384) The best way to get to Toronto by plane is probably thourgh Air Canada. You can get direct flights from London(Heathrow), Warsaw, Madrid, Rome, Munich, Frankfurt, Tel-Aviv,Sydney, Hong Kong, L.A, New York, Miami, Dallas, Seattle, Vancouver, Cancun and much more destinations if you use this airline. Other great airlines that serve Toronto are Lufthansa, British Airways, Air France LOT,Malev,Quantas,AmericanAirlines,U.S Airways, Aeromexico, EL AL, Alitalia, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, and the occasional Royal Joridiana. Leave a Comment Theme: AirplaneWebsite: www.gtaa.com Other Contact: www.airliners.net
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The street car (or 'red rocket' as it is know in TO) is quite slow and expensive in comparison to most cities (2.25). The subway is quite good but covers a very limited area. Cabs are very expensive and hell in rush hour.
Biking can be dangerous, but if your an experienced cyclist, you can easily pass 3 rockets over the course os a 15-20 minute ride. If staying downtown, you can walk to almost anything. Leave a Comment Theme: Bicycle
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Yorkdale Shopping Mall is at the north end of the city, between Dufferin Street and the Allen Expressway. It is also a transportation hub with a subway stop, and a bus terminal for local, regional and long haul buses (coaches). The bus from Winnipeg (and beyond) stops here before it makes the trip downtown. It is a handy place to meet people because of the parking.
Oh yes, and there is a Tim Hortons coffee shop upstairs!!!! Leave a Comment Theme: Bus
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Union Station is, of course, the main rail station for Toronto. Located on Front Street between Bay St and York St, across from The Royal York hotel, and connected by tunnels to the Air Canada Centre to the south, and to the Royal York Hotel and then The P.A.T.H - the underground route of tunnels through the business section of downtown Toronto.
The Grand Hall - or the main, ground level, area of the Departures and Ticket sales, car rentals, and information - has beautiful architectural elements if you look up, but the main features are the 2 huge windows the dominate either end of the hall. They have appeared in a number of American films and tv shows portraying New Yorks Grand Central Station - most remarkably in the movie, SilverStreak, where the train comes smashing through the big window.
Union Station is also the connection to the TTC subway system, "GO" trains & buses, and the LRT (Light Rapid Transit) system down to Queen's Quay. Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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Here's a tip...taking a limo from the airport to Toronto is about as much as a regular taxi. Some car services are better than others, though (and, yes, they all have the same prices). My favorite is Airport Limosine Services (416-225-1555). At the limo stand the ambassador (guy who directs you to a car) will want you to get into the next available limo (which is actually a Lincoln TownCar in most cases) but I insist on Airline Limo Servives (I just say that my company has an account so I need to take them).
Reasons to choose them:
(i) they wear a hat...like a real driver
(ii) they are polite and don't
(iii) talk incessantly on their cell phone while driving or
(iv) try to press you to talk if you're in more of a de-compression or restful mode and
(v) they know their way around the city. Leave a Comment Theme: Car/Motor HomePhone: 416-225-1555
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We flew from BWI to Toronto on Sunday June 6, 1999 in the afternoon on this little plane. (DASH-8). I noted that the other side of the plane was in French. (Ville de...) I thought it was funny that the plane was called "The City of Harrisburg" because I associate Harrisburg with Pennsylvania.
They took us by shuttle into the airport where I suddenly remembered that I'd left my coat on the plane. This set a precident for the whole trip as I later left my bag and my camera on various buses. I got everything back. The Air Canada personnel helped me get my coat, and the bus drivers were also very helpful. Leave a Comment
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Toronto doesn't have a subway stop that goes all the way to the airport but they do have a bus route that runs from the airport to the nearest subway station.
Route 192 bus runs straight to Kipling station on the Bloor-Danforth line. Kipling is the first/last stop on the line so just hop on the next train and know that you are heading into the city.
$2.75 CAD (exact change) onto the bus - apparently there is free transfer off the bus and onto the subway because there was no one charging to switch from the bus to the subway. Leave a Comment
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The trolleys around Toronto are extremely easy to use. Purchase tokens at Union Station. Be sure to check with the fare cashier before you purchase tokens as we found out that on weekends two people can ride all day for $8.50 as opposed to paying $2.75 each time we boarded.
The subway system is also available, but we didn't use it this trip. For information on subway fares, locations, and schedules, see the website link below or visiting www.toronto.com
Union Station ~ 65 Front Street West, Toronto
Subway service begins every day 6 a.m. (9 a.m. on Sundays), with daily final trains departing from the ends of the line at approximately 1:15 a.m. on north/south lines, and 1:30 a.m. east/west lines Leave a Comment
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There are many buses in Toronto - buses in from the airport, city transportation buses, and tour buses. I used the various buses that were to transport us back and forth to our hotels as free transportation around the city. Sometimes I remember that the drivers also gave us a narrative.
So I didn't actually take a TOUR bus around the city IIRC, although I may indeed have booked a 'wives' tour while I was supposed to be attending seminars, and just didn't put it on my expense sheet.
This photo is taken from the front of the bus I'm on towards the CN tower and shows a red double decker bus a la London. I think this is one of the many tour buses that were lined up at the CN tower most of the time. Leave a Comment Theme: Bus
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When we went by the airport in the tour boat, she told us that there were buoys off the end of the runway where boats were prohibited from going. That's because the space over the water is included in the runway. (The plane is supposed to be off the ground but not very far off, so it might run into a boat superstructure or mast.) There were huge fines for venturing into the space that is buoyed off.
This is not Pearson International Airport - I don't know the name of it. I suppose it is just for little commuter planes. Leave a Comment Theme: Airplane
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