Weekend need-to-know: Halloween events continue, Nick Nurse is back
Posted October 27, 2023 8:08 am.
Celebrate Halloween across the GTA this weekend with several haunting events to get you into the spirit.
You can check out a rarely-open TTC subway station or catch some Toronto Raptors action at Scotiabank Arena.
There is a one-day subway closure on part of Line 1 for track work and line closure on the GO Train, alongside ongoing road closures. Scroll below for more details.
Here’s what’s going on this weekend:
Top events
Halloween Fest at Bay Lower Station
The spookiest subway station will be the host for the TTC’s Halloween Fest this weekend and give residents a chance to check out the rarely opened Bay Lower Station. It will feature candy-filled train cars, trick-or-treating and ghastly characters lurking within the trains.
Admission is $5 per person (cash only), but children under the age of two will get in for free and proceeds will support United Way Greater Toronto.
Check out Halloween Fest from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
Halloween Howl
Take advantage of the warmer weather this weekend to check out High Park’s outdoor event Halloween Howl.
Costumes are strongly encouraged with the event which begins with a hike through the woodlands as a guide from the High Park Nature Centre will share not-so-scary truths about owls, spiders, bats, decomposers, Witch Hazel trees and more. The hike will be followed by a campfire where kids can make Halloween-themed art.
There are two times for the event, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 and 6 p.m. to 7:30 on Saturday and 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $15 each and free for kids under three.
Halloween Nights of Lights
Catch the last weekend of Halloween Nights of Lights at Scarborough Town Centre, a spooky walk-through experience featuring your favourite Halloween songs.
In its fourth year, the experience will feature more than 2 million LED and RGB lights animated while the fun continues inside Pumpkinville, a fun fair located at the end of the Nights of Lights trail. It features larger-than-life pumpkin sculptures and amusement rides and games.
Buy tickets ahead of time on their website.
Raptors face the return of head coach Nick Nurse
The Toronto Raptors will be “haunted” by the return of former head coach Nick Nurse in their first weekend home game of the regular season against the Philadelphia 76ers.
Nurse spent 10 seasons in Toronto — five as an assistant and five as the team’s head coach. He guided the Raptors to an NBA Championship in 2018-19 with three post-season appearances. Nurse was fired in April 2023 and joined the 76ers a few months later.
New head coach Darko Rajakovic and the Raptors captured their first win against Minnesota 97-94. Saturday’s game tips off at Scotiabank Arena at 7:30 p.m.
TTC/GO closures
Line 1 Saturday closure
On Saturday, there will be no subway service on Line 1 between St George and St Andrew stations due to track work. Shuttle buses will not be operating.
Customers travelling downtown are asked to take the 510 Spadina streetcar and transfer to a connecting eastbound route or use the Yonge side of Line 1 by transferring to Bloor-Yonge station on Line 2. Regular service will resume on Sunday by 8 a.m.
Line 2 late service starts Sunday
There will be a late start to service on Line 2 between St. George and Broadview stations due to beam replacement on the Prince Edward Viaduct.
Subway trains are expected to start running by 10 in the morning. Shuttle buses will be running.
No Lakeshore West train running
There will be no Lakeshore West train running between Oakville GO and Union Station this weekend for bridge and track work.
Starting at 10 p.m. Friday until the end of service on Sunday, customers at Oakville, Clarkson, and Union will be serviced by go buses only.
There will be no GO bus or GO train service for customers at Port Credit Go, Long Branch, Mimico or Exhibition. Those customers will have to use either Mi-Way or the TTC.
Lakeshore West Go trains will still be running between West Harbour and Oakville GO stations hourly. Service will resume normally on Monday.
Road closures
Ongoing closures
- In Mississauga, northbound Hurontario Street is closed north of Lakeshore Road, from High Street to Eaglewood Boulevard for construction, until 10 p.m. Monday.
- The intersection of Adelaide and York Streets will be fully closed to traffic for TTC construction until mid-December.
- Kingston Road and Lawrence Avenue is down a single lane in all directions for construction until the end of October.
- Southbound Bayview Avenue is closed from Rosedale Valley Road to River Street from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. nightly until early January.
- In Brampton, northbound Main Street is closed from Queen Street to Nelson Street until December for watermain replacement.
- Southbound on Broadview Avenue remains closed from south of Danforth Avenue to Gerrard Street until the end of November.
- Dufferin Street Bridge has a full emergency closure for repair work and it’s expected to last into the fall.
- Broadview Avenue, between Gerrard Street East and Danforth Avenue, will be closed to southbound traffic and reduced to one northbound lane until November to replace TTC streetcar tracks.
- Teston Road in Vaughan will be closed between Pine Valley Drive and Weston Road until the end of the year for road reconstruction and bridge work.
- Queen Street is fully closed to traffic between Bay and Victoria Streets to accommodate work on a new station for the Ontario Line subway. The closure is scheduled to last for at least four-and-a-half years until 2027.
- Lake Shore Boulevard West, from Rees Street to Spadina Avenue, is reduced to two lanes until May 31, 2024, for Enwave construction.
- Military Trail is closed from Ellesmere Road to Highcastle Road for road rehabilitation and slope stabilization. The project completion date has been delayed until further notice.
- Keele Street is reduced to a single lane about 100 metres north of Langstaff in Vaughan. Construction work is scheduled to finish later this year.
- Northbound Yonge Street is reduced to one lane between Wellington and King Streets for TTC construction. The project is scheduled to continue into 2024.
