York University (TTC)
| York University Planned Subway Station |
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| Coordinates | 43°46′26″N 79°30′00″W / 43.7739°N 79.500°WCoordinates: 43°46′26″N 79°30′00″W / 43.7739°N 79.500°W | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | centre | ||||||||||
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| Opened | Expected completion in 2015 | ||||||||||
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York University is a planned station of the Yonge–University–Spadina line of the subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. When built, it will be located on the grounds of York University’s main Keele campus, near Ian Macdonald and York Boulevards, and it's expected to open in late 2015. The main entrance will be located within the university common.
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More than 1400 TTC buses serve the campus every weekday, in addition to hundreds more spread across other services including Go Transit, York Region Transit/Viva, Brampton Transit and Greyhound. The development of a subway station will greatly reduce the number of buses entering campus by effectively eliminating the 196 York University Rocket bus route, and will serve to greatly improve public transit access to the university and surrounding area.
The university’s main buildings lie to the west of the proposed location. Seneca College’s York campus is found to the south, and the Rexall Centre to the west.
The station is being built underground, lying on a northwest-southeast axis. The line will approach from Finch West station along Keele Street, then bend northwestward to meet the station.
Architecture firm Foster+Partners has been commissioned for the design, which includes a curving ramp connecting the entrances.[1]
While the official ground breaking ceremony for the Spadina Extension was held on 27 November 2009, major tunneling operations started in June 2011. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2015.[2]
The first stage of construction began in May 2011. On October 11, 2011, one worker was killed and five others injured when a drilling rig working on the station site collapsed.[3]
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- ^ "Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension Project - York University Station - Approval of Conceptual Design" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. 2009-09-24. http://www3.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Commission_reports_and_information/Commission_meetings/2009/September_24_2009/Reports/Toronto_York_Spadina2.pdf. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
- ^ Kalinowski, Tess (2009-11-27). "TTC breaks ground on subway extension". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/731742. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
- ^ Scallan, Niamh; Raveena Aulakh. "Workers were trapped in their machines in deadly accident at TTC site". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1067886--workers-were-trapped-in-their-machines-in-deadly-accident-at-ttc-site. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
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