[URBAN NOTE] Getting to the airport
Jun. 19th, 2009 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldAndrew has a startling picture of a veritable row of buses lined up at the Kipling TTC station, located at the western terminus of the Bloor-Danforth line.
I say "startling" because the Kipling station is supposedly connected to Toronto International Airport, incoming and outgoing, for the simple cost of a token at $C2.75. In theory. In practice, whenever I've tried to get to the airport from Kipling, I've waited an hour, panicked, and taken a taxi for a ride that costs about $C25. The outgoing trips, from the airport to Kipling, are more reliable at least.
The other, more expensive but also much more reliable, way of getting to the airport that doesn't involve a taxi is the Airport Express, a comfortable bus that travels along the highways, managing to make the airport in a half-hour from the downtown: $C19.95 one-way, $32.95 both direction, 10% off if you buy online. It's quite decent, and yet, I wish that I could count on the TTC. Now, not in a decade when the Eglinton light rail route is built.
I say "startling" because the Kipling station is supposedly connected to Toronto International Airport, incoming and outgoing, for the simple cost of a token at $C2.75. In theory. In practice, whenever I've tried to get to the airport from Kipling, I've waited an hour, panicked, and taken a taxi for a ride that costs about $C25. The outgoing trips, from the airport to Kipling, are more reliable at least.
The other, more expensive but also much more reliable, way of getting to the airport that doesn't involve a taxi is the Airport Express, a comfortable bus that travels along the highways, managing to make the airport in a half-hour from the downtown: $C19.95 one-way, $32.95 both direction, 10% off if you buy online. It's quite decent, and yet, I wish that I could count on the TTC. Now, not in a decade when the Eglinton light rail route is built.
