St. Andrew Subway Station

San Andreas station as I refer to it is named after the church in the area which was named after the patron saint of Scotland so you know it’s not crap. The church is actually an entire block west of the main intersection of where this station is situated which is King and University.
There are entrances to the platforms that I know of through the north side below 200 King and the east side of University right on the north east corner as well.
While this station is also on King in order to there not to be any confusion since both King street stations are only 2 stops apart only one was called «King» and the other named after this church a block away from the actual station. Misnomer? It could have been called King West such as the example of Eglinton, Eglinton West and St. Clair and St. Clair West but for the sake of consistency no, this station has been named after the church. I’m not going to lose sleep off this, I’m just saying.
Also if you follow the whole patron saint and trinity of flags that create the Union Jack as mentioned in my review of San Jorge you’d know that you can’t have San Patrizio and San Jorge honored without also honoring San Andreas. There’s the «come in threes» SET that simply cannot be broken here. This trinity must stay intact and in order to do so you must name this station after the church that is *cough* a block away.
During rush hour what would you expect? All the University Ave offices at King are nearby so this place would get flooded. It’s one stop away from Union as well think about that… Most people that are GOing it are probably just walking and mitigating the total traffic this station could get. Considering the real KING station is closer to the big 4 bank towers they would get potentially even more traffic AND Union is about equidistant to that station as well.
The King streetcar 504 runs along this stretch as well so you can transfer from a ride on the streetcar to this station or the real King too. The 504 runs from Dundas West (another WEST named station) down Roncesvalles to King and all the way east to Parliament to Queen and up Broadview to Broadview station on the east side of the Don Valley.

Close to Queen street. This locations is in the heart of Toronto, so it is dirtier than most stations. The halls are narrow and it can get really congested.
Inside the station, there is not much but the station is connected to the PATH.
Overall the station does not some updating.

I frequent St. Andrew station a lot as I work in the area, and it’s always nuts. From 8am to 10am it’s completely full of people trying to get to work in the Financial District, and the same deal from 4pm to 6pm with people heading home.
Although there are plenty of stairs to get up to ground level, the escalators are often out of service which really slows things down. Apart from that, it’s just your standard downtown subway station.
Being so close to union, I like having the choice of two ways to get home (northbound to St. George or southbound all the way to Yonge/​Bloor) if there is a problem on either line. This doesn’t work for everyone, however, and when there are delays during rush hour (which are often enough, considering the construction at Union Station) it can get pretty crazy.
It’s easy to get on the King streetcar in both directions, and the entrances are right beside the relevant streetcar stops which is handy when the weather is bad.

Right in the middle of the financial district — swarming with navy suits and half windsor knots from 8:30 — 9:00 am and 5:00pm — 10:00pm. Gets extremely hectic during rush hours.
Access to the PATH so I can get lost figuring out which subway exit to take, and then I can get lost again trying to navigate to work via the PATH!

this morning on the subway i was spaced out… thinking about what i could write about st. andrew subway station on a Unilocal review… during my space-​out i was accidentally staring at a woman. her reaction was pleasant — she smiled and said hello. and then i snapped out of it.
st. andrew subway station is the home of:
— the highest density of well paid people sneaking through the gate without paying
— continous renovations
— access to the path underground
— the least personable booth operators
— a gateway newsstand
— the worst place for a person to ask for change
— the most likely place to see a person asking for change at rush hour
— the most likely place to get trampled (asking for change or travelling within the station)