Main Street

Growing up a block or so away from the corner of Bloor and Yonge, I didn’t quite know what to make of the Main Street station on the Bloor-Danforth line. Yonge Street, after all, is one of the longest roads in the world and that particular intersection pretty much defines the centre of downtown Toronto; and so there was little doubt in my 14-year-old mind that either of those streets had a greater claim to main-ness than one I’d never even heard of until that dull afternoon I decided to spend the rest of the day underground, collecting subway transfers.