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A Bus to Bessarion: Walking Along Burbank and Empress

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  Hey besties! This blog post follows along a walk that I had taken in early November 2021. Just a quick note, my captions for pictures say 'left' and 'right' and they may not appear that way on mobile. Sorry in advance! Bessarion Station, on Line 4, has long been critiqued as being a useless station. Named after a short residential street, in, at the time of opening, a very open area, most see it as a place they will never have to venture to. It even spawned a YouTube video that set out to find where exactly Bessarion Station is. For those who have yet to see it, I have attached it below. However, as the area around the station has begun to fill in, ridership slowly begins to increase. Obviously, there are  still many issues  at play around the station, but things are changing. Bessarion is no longer the least-used subway station, and in was actually never the least used rapid transit station: Ellesmere on Line 3 always had lower ridership. In Toronto, however, subway ...