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1 2 3 4 5   UER Forum > Archived Canada: Ontario > Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic (Viewed 9054 times) johnnyluv  Location: Mississauga Gender: Male  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 40 on 11/22/2005 11:27 PM >   Posted by Archer It's actually a worse idea to do it after hours, fyi, because of the amount of work car switching that occurs during the night. Station is actually much busier during the night in terms of rail traffic. WHat about getting down to the actual station? Is it better to go on off hours or is it the same as the actual station. How long does it take to get there time wise anyways? Archer  Location: Toronto, ON Gender: Male Imperator Sagittario  |  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 41 on 11/22/2005 11:31 PM >   Well, seeing as how the tracks that the works car would be running along are the same ones that run through the tunnels that lead from Museum to Bay... I'll let you figure that one out. There is no right answer to this. Daytime has less rail traffic, but more people about and the possibility of a movie shoot or maintenance down in Bay Lower. Night is quieter, people wise, and you can be fairly sure that the station itself will be really quiet, save for a janitor working above (although they've been known to take a breather on the lower platform). But then you run the risk of becoming a pancake on the front of a work car that's running through the tunnels (and they motor it through there). Abandoned UE - http://www.abandonedue.com "We live in a twilight world... and there are no friends at dusk." ~pandora~  Location: guelph/toronto Gender: Female  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 42 on 11/24/2005 7:44 AM >   Well, seeing as how the tracks that the works car would be running along are the same ones that run through the tunnels that lead from Museum to Bay... Aren't the tracks from (lower) bay to yonge/bloor a shorter distance than the ones from museum? Plus i'm pretty sure you can catch a glimpse of lower bay from the westbound train from yonge/bloor... Stewie  Location: Hamilton, Ontario Gender: Male kill your idols  |  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 43 on 11/24/2005 12:44 PM >   Posted by ~pandora~ Aren't the tracks from (lower) bay to yonge/bloor a shorter distance than the ones from museum? I've always heard that the better route to take is from Museum. So I'd assume thats the quicker way. > The hierarchy of power dictates that the person with the most power does the least amount of work and retains the highest benefit. TunnelXplorer  Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Gender: Male  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 44 on 11/24/2005 2:23 PM >   Yes, Museum is the better way because a) less traffic at the platform on museum than Yonge, LOL you don't want to pop out of the tunnels at Yonge TRUST ME theres a 100% chance that someone will see you coming out on to the Yonge platform.!!! The look on many passengers faces and questions they ask you and who knows what,someone might even call TTC employees or security by pressing that DWA emergency device thingy, that someone has emerged from the tunnel. b) Museum way is alot safer due to the centre track which allows you to hide and get cover if a train is coming, yes it may take a few minutes more to enter Museum than if you went east to yonge but hey its worth the extra time to live another day... ~pandora~  Location: guelph/toronto Gender: Female  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 45 on 11/25/2005 7:56 PM >   b) Museum way is alot safer due to the centre track which allows you to hide and get cover if a train is coming, yes it may take a few minutes more to enter Museum than if you went east to yonge but hey its worth the extra time to live another day... Thanks...i didn't realize how much safer museum is Archer  Location: Toronto, ON Gender: Male Imperator Sagittario  |  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 46 on 11/26/2005 1:41 AM >   Posted by ~pandora~ Thanks...i didn't realize how much safer museum is Well, technically it's all a matter of perspective. Tunnel running is always going to be risky, plain and simple. If you're going to do it, though, then definetely do it from Museum. Abandoned UE - http://www.abandonedue.com "We live in a twilight world... and there are no friends at dusk." ~pandora~  Location: guelph/toronto Gender: Female  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 47 on 11/26/2005 3:40 AM >   Posted by Archer Well, technically it's all a matter of perspective. Tunnel running is always going to be risky, plain and simple. If you're going to do it, though, then definetely do it from Museum. will do p.s. that risk factor is half the fun ;) darnay  Nobler Donor Gender: Male  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 48 on 11/28/2005 6:02 AM >   TunnelXplorer, can I ask what you were doing exploring what is, at the end of the day, nothing but a subway platform for apparently two hours? If someone wants to get down there but doesn't want to risk their life, they a) film down there every now and then, and b) there are tours for potential film crews on the first Thursday of every month at 3 pm. Edited to add that the Lawrence Attic has to be at least as creepy as Lower Bay, but without the danger. What's not cool about an asbestos cleaning office, a birds-eye view of subway trains, climbing two ladders, and a dark, empty room with no lights? [last edit 11/28/2005 6:06 AM by darnay - edited 1 times] Averus Black  Mr. Evil Location: Toronto, ON Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 49 on 11/28/2005 10:36 AM >   Being able to sit in a big L-shaped room and watch cars drive above you. Pretty sly for a fat guy darnay  Nobler Donor Gender: Male  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 50 on 11/28/2005 11:12 PM >   I went with you, and I don't think that was nearly the highlight of the trip. Averus Black  Mr. Evil Location: Toronto, ON Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 51 on 11/29/2005 8:03 PM >   Posted by darnay I went with you, and I don't think that was nearly the highlight of the trip. True, but it was still cool as hell, you gotta admit. Pretty sly for a fat guy fedge  Location: Gaud Corners, Ontario, Canada Gender: Male you blight up my life™®  |  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 52 on 12/1/2005 1:37 AM >   How long after these are installed before they get vandal-asshattized? http://www.paved.c...bways_refresh.html 18-odd Years Of UER-ing! Lynx  Location: North York Gender: Male :do not cry out or hit the alarm  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 53 on 12/10/2005 8:10 AM >   I finally checked out lawrence attic: I was on a roll wednesday as far as infiltration goes, having snuck through a healthy days number of 'off-limits' areas on U of T campus and encountering people in all three buildings but not ever being seen. So on my way home around 9:30PM I decided I had to use my invisibility powers discovered earlier that day to check out lawrence attic. I'd heard and read much about this great anomaly of the ttc system and the previous night I'd snooped around the south end tunnels (forgetting that the attic entrance was on the north end of course) and finding all the doors in that end locked. I tried to do the north end but there was a ttc man waiting around that end of the platform that night, and he wasn't leaving. So with that little bit of subway infil experience I decided to check out the north end and the attic. Besides, I had both my maglite and my camera with me and lawrence is on my way home anyway. I got to Lawrence about 10PM, riding in the last car on the northbound train, to give me time while i walked to the north end, for the people to clear. Made sure to dodge the rather poorly place cameras by walking between the pillars (oh how sneaky). No ttc people tonight, only a guy had shown up at the very south end of the platform with a guitar case just missing the northbound train and 3 r 4 people waiting on the southbound. I had a seat with the southbound crew and when that train came and went i walked with the people leaving the station, fidgeting with my mp3 player until they left. Then i just waited for guitar man to pace back behind the pillars out of sight and i quietly as possible opened the wee 'danger' gate. *the attic.. last time I saw it anyway* I made quick for the staircase I'd always seen from the subway and got into the attic just in time for a southbound train birdseye view! Thankfully no ttc worky folk were hiding upstairs to accuse me of being a terrorist or suicidal or something. I checked it all out, I suppose I don't have to go over details as most folk here have seen it (or havent and don't want me to spoil it). but that pitch black empty attic above the platform is definitely the trippiest place I've ever been. I was there alone and my maglite couldn't even penetrate half that darkness, it felt like being in outer space...with gravity. it was a dreamlike experience, a never ending hallway. a non-space. Just the sheer size of the whole attic space was impressive, such a large space that has seemingly little function. The grates in Yonge street were really cool too, watching cars and trucks drive over top was another trippy experience. I also tried the big ladder up to the manhole cover and got run over by what sounded like a bus. And I think I was still invisible, nobody saw me standing around watching them on the escalator. not that anyone was paying attention to a space they probably didn't know existed. I got some pictures, but I didn't have my tripod so most of them are garbage. Oh and I dragged my callsign into the dust at some point in the non-space for anyone who goes there next, assuming the dust doesn't take it over. I left around 11:30, had to hide from 2 trains waiting for people to leave the platform. even after that there was an old woman sitting on the first bench on the north end, facing the south rail though. so she didn't see me, until i was out in the open. then she got this all confused look trying to figure out where i came from as she hadn't heard or seen me come down the stairs. that was funny. Then I got on the train and went home and told my roommate about all the great infiltration I'd done that day. and my girlfriend...who didn't exactly like the fact that I'd walked on live subway tracks just to get some pictures which didn't even turn out anyways. I told her i walked on the ledge! not the tracks. and that I spent as little time as possible at track level anyways, the object is to not be seen ever, duh....she still didn't like it. appypollylogies for length [last edit 12/10/2005 8:11 AM by Lynx - edited 1 times] savageprince01x  Location: Barrie, ON, Canada Gender: Male Juice it up, Jay!  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 54 on 12/10/2005 9:45 AM >   nice... thats the best pic of lawrence attic i've seen... ive never been in the tunnels but im thinking i should hit this up... i've heard it's a lot safer than lower bay, which sounds like the other most interesting aspect of toronto's underbelly Air  Location: Canada  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 55 on 10/7/2006 1:48 AM >   Posted by TunnelXplorer What are the chances of a train coming through Lower Bay during the day? barely a chance I think...my last visit I looked at the rails at Lower bay, they don't look like the rest of the stations " shiny " showing signs of usage so it means no train has been through there to switch lines for a while. That's not a good attitude to have. Trains will come through there whenever they get routed, randomly. Trains get switched there, and you can never really know when. You do best to avoid it during rush hours and very late at night. Posted by TunnelXplorer what is this TTC scanner thing?????????? It detects if a subway is coming or something???? does anybody know where to get one? I find it humourous that you guys get all pissy about announcing times to visit the place -- but find nothing wrong in dispensing advice about scanners. Posted by micro Only one way to find out. LMAO Posted by ~pandora~ What about an after hours or late night attempt to reach lower bay? Does anyone know the levels of security and train activity then? I hear going after 1:30am is a good idea (crazy sarcasm) Posted by darnay TunnelXplorer, can I ask what you were doing exploring what is, at the end of the day, nothing but a subway platform for apparently two hours? If someone wants to get down there but doesn't want to risk their life, they a) film down there every now and then, and b) there are tours for potential film crews on the first Thursday of every month at 3 pm. Edited to add that the Lawrence Attic has to be at least as creepy as Lower Bay, but without the danger. What's not cool about an asbestos cleaning office, a birds-eye view of subway trains, climbing two ladders, and a dark, empty room with no lights? I used to go by there everyday for 2 years on my way to work and I've never been there... Edit by Boffo: merged multiple posts. [last edit 10/10/2006 3:47 AM by Boffo - edited 1 times] "The extraordinary beauty of things that fail." - Heinrich von Kleist Gavin   |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 56 on 12/19/2006 5:35 PM >   Hey Guys: Im new to all this urban exploration, but I live in etibicoke. I would love to explore ANYTHING in the city.. I "specialise" in train hopping.. ridin the rails.. but urban exploration is new to me.. and i'd love to get into it.. if anyone has an event going on.. let me know.. eagerly awaiting a reply anyone ever been to that abondaned western city at warden and eglington? near the TTC Bus Depot.. i have pics if anyone is interested.. fedge  Location: Gaud Corners, Ontario, Canada Gender: Male you blight up my life™®  |  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 57 on 12/20/2006 12:16 AM >   Posted by Gavin anyone ever been to that abondaned western city at warden and eglington? near the TTC Bus Depot.. i have pics if anyone is interested.. Post 'em, Gav. That's how we roll here. Welcome to UER! 18-odd Years Of UER-ing! Painting Tunnels   |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 58 on 1/6/2007 9:11 PM >   By the way people.... i was down at lower bay for the 3rd time about a week ago and they hve cammera's on both sides ofthe lower bay platfrom facing the way to go to young station, so you can still pop your head out And take a look at the platfrom if yourcomingfrom museum, your headwill be directly below the canera... so if your going there.. dont go on the platform.Also why woul you guys all use ths likehigh techradio shit nd waste your money. Im 15 and iv been there 3 times and iv never brought electroinc devices other then a flashlight the 3rd time.And also lower bay is going to be in use on sturday's and sundays's between Feb 18 and march 31st.. the deal is that bay station (upper) is ging to have connstruction on it on the trains will be passing threw lower bay insdtead of uppper bay.. hopefully they leave the graffiti for all people to see...... and remember.. PAINT TUNNELS. If anyone wants to mission dow there i might be down click to view [last edit 1/6/2007 9:25 PM by Painting Tunnels - edited 1 times] DrunkenMunky  Location: Wainfleet Gender: Male  |  Re: Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic <Reply # 59 on 1/9/2007 5:20 PM >   well this is what Wikipedia dug up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_(TTC) For anyone who wants some background info and some present info. UER Forum > Archived Canada: Ontario > Lower Bay Station & Lawrence Attic (Viewed 9054 times)  1 2 3 4 5   All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 187 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 741881025 pages have been generated.