Kevin: Welcome to the tour of the TTC, the subway addition
Kyle: TTC stands for Toronto Transit Commission and its been running since 1925 beginning with trains, but the subway itself was built form 1949 to 1954
Katie: The Younge Street line was the first subway in Canada, but it only came into commission was in 1964!
Kyle: And, it was the beginning of postwar Toronto's effort to accommodate the demands of the city's prosperity and its future.
(Subway chime)
Kevin: What you just heard was the sound that prepared the passengers that the doors are about to close.
Kyle: So here we are on the subway riding south towards Union Station.
Katie: The Yonge line has 16 spot going from Finch Ave. all the way to Union Station in down town Toronto.
Kevin: There are 3 different lines so it is possible to get any where in Toronto. And they are currently planning on extended the Yonge line into York Region, by York University and into the city of Vaughn.
Katie: So while we’re on our subway ride, we’ll give you a few tips about the subway and some other stuff.
Kyle: Here’s an interesting fact, the subway has had over 25 billion riders since 1921.
Kevin: That’s almost 4 times the world’s population.
Kyle: So we started at the Finch station and now are at Bloor and Yonge. This is the station where you can switch subway lines if you need to go east to west when going north to south.
Kevin: But since we’re doing our tour from Finch Station to Union Station we are continuing on this subway.
Katie: Oh look at that guy over there, he’s playing a violin!
Kyle: Yeah, they’re called buskquers.
Kevin: In 1980, the TTC began a program called Subway Musicians Programme.
Kyle: The TTC allows musicians to audition and the ones who make it can perform in the subway entrance and as people walk by they throw change into their instrument case.
Katie: Oh cool!
Kevin: Yup, there are a lot of cool things that happen in the subway. It’s not just a way of transportation.
Kyle: Well there’s not much more to say on this tour.
Katie: Yeah the only thing left to do is enjoy the ride.
This is a script of a podcast that we worked on. We decided to use the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) as our sort of guide to the city. The subway is used daily by thousands of people around and in toronto, and really is behind the scenes, an important part to Toronto's history. Thousands of people rely on the subway to get them from one place to another, and at the same time don't even think about the conveinience of it.
One of the most interesting facts we found was that over 25 billion people have rode the subway since its opening, which is an incredible amount of people to be going from one place to another.
Overall, I think this project was a great success, and we really did explore a lot to do with both transportation in general and the TTC specifically. The project was worth doing for sure.
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