[URBAN NOTE] "Just how hot is it on TTC subway cars?"

[rfmcdonald]

The Toronto Star's Jackie Hong investigates the temperature on subway cars in summer. Suffice it to say that I will be glad to be on Prince Edward Island, where temperatures will be a few degrees cooler than in southern Ontario.

Commuters are facing sweltering rides as the transit agency works to replace old, worn-out air-conditioners.

But how hot is it exactly?

Using a thermometer, the Star measured temperatures of up to 32.5 C on a Line 2 train car as it travelled between Sherbourne and Dundas West Stations Wednesday – 3.5 C hotter than the temperature at both platforms and 1.5 C higher than the temperature outdoors during the same time frame.

Another car on a different train travelling from Broadview to Donlands hit 29.5 C. An air-conditioned car in the same train was 25 C.

And as Torontonians braved a record-breaking high of 35C outside Wednesday, a Star reporter went underground, riding several Line 2 trains Wednesday afternoon, starting at Yonge Station.