Bay station (Toronto)

Bay
Location	1240 Bay Street Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43°40′13″N 79°23′24″W / 43.67028°N 79.39000°W / 43.67028; -79.39000Coordinates: 43°40′13″N 79°23′24″W / 43.67028°N 79.39000°W / 43.67028; -79.39000
Platforms	centre platform
Connections	TTC buses  6  Bay  300   Bloor - Danforth
Construction
Structure type	underground
Platform levels	2
Disabled access	No
History
Opened	25 February 1966 (1966-02-25)
Closed	4 September 1966 (1966-09-04) (Bay Lower)
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	30,860
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station St. George toward Kipling Bloor–Danforth Yonge toward Kennedy

Bay is a subway station on the Bloor–Danforth line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in heart of the Yorkville district just north of Bloor Street West on the west side of Bay Street.

The Toronto Transit Commission operates its lost articles office at this station, where forgotten objects on the city's buses and trains are held until reclaimed or sold by auction. Wi-fi service is available at this station.

Bay Station was opened in 1966 as part of the original segment of the Bloor-Danforth line, from Keele Station in the west to Woodbine Station in the east.

Early plans of the Bloor line, and even some published maps, named this station ‘Yorkville’; the platform signs read ‘BAY’ in large type, with a smaller ‘YORKVILLE’ underneath.

Below the main platform for Bay Station is an abandoned platform, which was used for only six months in 1966 when the TTC experimentally ran trains whose routes included portions of both the Yonge-University and Bloor-Danforth lines. This abandoned platform is sometimes referred to as Lower Bay by the general public or Bay Lower by the TTC.

The platform was in service from February to September 1966 as part of an "interlining" experiment, in which the TTC ran trains along three routes, with one matching the subsequent Bloor-Danforth line, and the other two combining parts of the Bloor-Danforth line with the Yonge-University line. The experiment was deemed a failure, largely because delays anywhere quickly cascaded to affect the entire system. Also, as the stations had not been laid out effectively for cross-platform interchange, trains travelling west from St. George and east from Bay alternated between the two levels, leading passengers to wait on the stairs in-between the levels, since they were unable to tell which platform would receive the next train.

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