I've been to Toronto quite a bit but only ridden the Subway a handful of days so I'm not completely familiar with it by any means.

I'm used to Montreal's Metro and even OC Transpo's service as they identify routes from the start point to the end point. In other words, 95 Orleans or 95 Baseline. Same for Montreal, Montmorency or Cote-Vertu.

But in Toronto, the names of the lines so to speak don't actually reflect the end points, so a little confused where the names come from...

For example, on Line 1, it's called Yonge-University line. Does the name just refer to the general area, in which case it isn't really all that clear or specific or as identifying as to what it serves. And Lines 1 & 2 don't seem to be consistent with Lines 3 & 4 for the naming standard. I know I'm just nitpicking but always been curious.

If someone knows the reasoning behind the naming of the lines, I'd love to hear it. Until then I just can't seem to connect the dots.

13 hours ago, Rob said:

I've been to Toronto quite a bit but only ridden the Subway a handful of days so I'm not completely familiar with it by any means.

I'm used to Montreal's Metro and even OC Transpo's service as they identify routes from the start point to the end point. In other words, 95 Orleans or 95 Baseline. Same for Montreal, Montmorency or Cote-Vertu.

But in Toronto, the names of the lines so to speak don't actually reflect the end points, so a little confused where the names come from...

For example, on Line 1, it's called Yonge-University line. Does the name just refer to the general area, in which case it isn't really all that clear or specific or as identifying as to what it serves. And Lines 1 & 2 don't seem to be consistent with Lines 3 & 4 for the naming standard. I know I'm just nitpicking but always been curious.

If someone knows the reasoning behind the naming of the lines, I'd love to hear it. Until then I just can't seem to connect the dots.

The lines are named after which streets they pass underneath, for example the Yonge-University-Spadina Line originally just passed under those 3 streets. Same thing for the Bloor-Danforth line and the Shepherd line. The exception is the Scarborough RT, which only operates in Scarborough so it was named the.

Yeah I always thought the names mostly made sense.