{"id":550437,"date":"2026-03-21T04:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550437\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T04:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:18:13","slug":"we-tried-to-beat-the-ttc-subway-to-a-major-toronto-destination-on-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550437\/","title":{"rendered":"We tried to beat the TTC subway to a major Toronto destination on foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you regularly commute in Toronto, you know that the distance between Museum and Bay stations is pretty much a breeze at under 600 metres. The only annoyance is having to transfer lines at St. George.<\/p>\n<p>But given how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogto.com\/city\/2026\/03\/parts-ontario-walloped-50-cm-snow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cold and snowy<\/a> it&#8217;s been these past few months,\u00a0we can&#8217;t really blame anyone for skipping the walk\u00a0and\u00a0sticking to the subway (despite having to take two separate lines).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So which is actually faster?<\/p>\n<p>In another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogto.com\/city\/2026\/03\/toronto-line-5-eglinton-ttc-subway-train-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">head-to-head race with the TTC<\/a>, blogTO tested the time difference\u00a0between walking and taking the subway from Museum Station to Eataly in Yorkville.<\/p>\n<p>The race pitted walking at a brisk 7.5 km\/h pace against the TTC subway during Thursday rush hour, navigating packed trains and crowded stations.<\/p>\n<p>Check out who came out on top in this video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@blogto?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"@blogto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@blogto<\/a> Transit Challenge: Museum to Bay Station &#8211; Walk VS Transfer \ud83c\udf99\ufe0f\ud83c\udfa5 @antonwongvideo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-blogTO-7616840562259495688?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound  - blogTO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; blogTO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As long as you&#8217;re able to make the 10-minute walk during peak periods, that seems to be the fastest way to go.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you regularly commute in Toronto, you know that the distance between Museum and Bay stations is pretty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,33926,3302,10479],"class_list":["post-550437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-subway","tag-toronto","tag-ttc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}