[grammin]

I'm there at least 15 times to 20 times a year, for over 15 years. Including when there's been 40,000 there (in the 2016 playoffs).

TTC service is normally excellent - I'm not sure what went wrong - but I do try and avoid the Dufferin bus because it's so crap. And if I do take it, I'm certainly using the app to make sure there's one coming. If there's a 45-minute just pay the extra 40¢ and take the GO train to the subway.

The Ossington bus has never failed me, even during the G20 rioting - though if there is none coming I'd keep walking up Atlantic to King and catch the 504. The GO train is fantastic, now it runs more than once an hour. Every 15-minutes for Saturday games, and they often toss in an extra on weeknights when the frequency is only 30 minutes.

And even though the crowd for the streetcar can look big, the worst I've had is not getting on the one that was already stopped to load before I got there (and that was with the short CLRV cars). Another one is there quick, and they usually have extras sitting at Exhibition loop for the crowds. I just take a 509 or 510, whichever one looks less busy (usually the 510 to Bathurst station).

I've driven once to a TFC game. Driving there wasn't too bad. But I parked in the lot on the north side of the tracks, in Liberty Village. Trying to come home was a nightmare, heading east. (In retrospect I should probably have headed down Dufferin, and crawled onto the Gardiner). It took an extra 45-minutes to get home. Never again! I doubt it's improved since they built all those condos along Liberty Street.

I was at one game this season where my brother who lives nearby chose to drive, while I took the GO train. I got on the train about 5 minutes before he pulled out. I was up in the stands for a good half-hour before he appeared - parking seems more of a challenge with both Ontario Place lots closed. (before he had kids, he used to cycle ... and yes, that was faster).

I hear ya, I was a season ticket holder at TFC for over 10 years (Usector, what!). I've driven, walked, cycled (bit far and uphill home and only if I went myself) and transited it down there many many times. Man, it took me less time to get home from the first MLS cup final (2016) in my car, just wound my way home through Dundas to Roncesville and then Bloor, once you escape the vicinity of King and Dufferin you're clear so I don't mind walking a bit further and park further away ( would almost never go south of King Street). I would/could take the Go train, if I could guarantee a parking spot at Long Branch or Mimico but using transit and then no beers. The Dufferin bus is a pain from Bloor, even worse than before they did the underpass at Queen. I find it restrictive and under prioritized but always very very busy. Been stuck there going to EX as well. Maybe the proposed priority lanes will help.

I'd go around on the subway but I'm all the way to Islington or Kipling. Given this thread, maybe the Go Train to the UP to the Subway!! Again, fare integration?

I do use the transit app all the time, there was no real time data happening or we would have just walked to Bloor to be honest, I'm not really averse to walking at all. Not sure what happened but nothing was done about it. They could have turned some of the south bound busses at Queen but even they were sparse. The locals I was chatting with were not happy with the service either. We had just missed the bus at the Loop so we walked north to avoid waiting with the crowds. I could take the King streetcar, but I've been dumped off at the corner of King and Roncesvilles at 11pm with two small kids as well, we ended up in a Taxi from there that time and that junction has horrendous traffic for the streetcar. Frankly our system is so disjointed it's not funny, why can't there be a GO/UP station at King and Dufferin or thereabouts. Would help tremendously, I might, might take the subway all the way once Line 3 is done, but that's a long way out the way for something that just ain't far from me. With my kids only a few years left of high school, then I can change my lifestyle for the better!!

I was all in for SmartTrack when I voted for it. Lol.

 

[Woodbridge_Heights]

...Frankly our system is so disjointed it's not funny, why can't there be a GO/UP station at King and Dufferin or thereabouts. Would help tremendously, ...

Typical GTA shortsightedness. "Why put a GO station there when there's already one about 1 Km away". Well because they are on two different lines, and sure when you are heading to the DT core it makes no difference but when heading out to the 'burbs they don't.

 

[fiendishlibrarian]

"why can't there be a GO/UP station at King and Dufferin or thereabouts"

There kinda sorta was one, albeit temporary, in 1979:

Source.

That was an old, repurposed former Grand Trunk/GO station and I think you can still see the staircases there.