Kennedy station

"Kennedy station" redirects here. For the adjacent commuter rail station of GO Transit, see Kennedy GO Station.

Kennedy
General information
Location	2455 Eglinton Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates	43°43′57″N 79°15′49″W
Platforms	1 centre platform (BD line) 2 side platforms (SRT line)
Tracks	3 (2 on BD and 1 for SRT)
Connections	TTC buses Kennedy GO Station
Construction
Structure type	underground (BD line) elevated (SRT line)
Platform levels	3
Parking	1135
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	21 November 1980 (BD line) 22 March 1985 (SRT line)
Passengers
2022	31,249 (BD line) 19,254 (SRT line) 50,503 Total Ranked 5th of 69
Services
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Kennedy is the terminal subway station of the Bloor-Danforth and Scarborough RT lines of the Toronto subway and RT. It is located at 2455 Eglinton Avenue East, just east of Kennedy Road. The station opened in 1980 in what was then the Borough of Scarborough with the Bloor-Danforth platform, and the Scarborough RT platform opened in 1985. The adjacent Kennedy GO Station on GO Transit's Stouffville rail line opened in 2005.

Kennedy is a four-level station, with the Scarborough RT on top, the bus terminal on ground level, the entry concourse underneath that leads to the GO station and parking, and the subway on the bottom. The subway and RT tracks through the station are parallel. All station levels are accessible by elevator. Four parking lots surround the station, providing commuters with a total of 1138 spaces; East (151), North (112), North Service Road (199) and South (673). All lots charge cash fare from 5:00am to 3:00pm weekdays, and are free after 3:00pm and all day weekends and holidays. The cost for Kennedy North, North Service Road and South Lots is $5.00, and Kennedy East Lot is $3.00.

Kennedy is the fifth busiest station in the system, after St. George, Bloor-Yonge, Sheppard-Yonge & Union, serving a combined total of approximately 50,503 people a day. In 2008, the Toronto Star reported this station to be a "known problem area" in terms of crime in the subway system, along with Lawrence West, Lansdowne, and Warden stations.

This station will be part of the Eglinton–Scarborough Crosstown line in which will open in 2020.

Infrastructure

SRT leaving the station

Leaving the station, the Scarborough RT line descends to ground level and turns north to run alongside the Canadian National Railway railway tracks.

Although the Scarborough RT trains are bidirectional, at this station they originally reversed on a loop like single-ended streetcars, because when Kennedy station was built, the TTC planned to run the line as a dedicated right-of-way for streetcars, rather than the light metro that was eventually constructed. They would enter the station from the east, unload passengers, run onto an elevated loop west of the station to reverse, return to the station, and call at a second platform to load passengers before departing eastward. The original floor finishing and platform edge markings for the then originally planned LRT was never removed, and is still visible at the sides of the track bed.

The ICTS trains could not handle the sharp curves of the loop as well as expected, so the station was rebuilt in 1988 to eliminate its regular use. Because of another curve at the east end of the station, it was not possible to add a scissors crossover there, so the station was reduced to a single terminal track. Trains now use that single track to reverse; platforms on either side allow for trains to open their doors on both sides while stopped. The original loading platform on the south side of the tracks, extended to meet the single remaining track, is still the one primarily used for loading, and the other for unloading. The loop track still exists, now constituting a dead-end tail track where a train could be stored if necessary.

Original design was to have SRT trains loop at the west end of the station, but the single track now provides access to the trains from platforms on both sides

Nearby landmarks

Nearby landmarks include the Don Montgomery Community Centre (formerly called Mid-Scarborough Community Centre).

Surface connections

Bus platform level of the station

Main article: List of Toronto Transit Commission bus routes

• 12A Kingston Rd to Victoria Park Station via Brimley and Variety Village
• 20 Cliffside to Main Street Station
• 21 Brimley to Steeles via Scarborough Centre Station

21A to Scarborough Centre Station

• 34 Eglinton East westbound to Eglinton Station
• 43A Kennedy to Steeles Avenue

43B to Scarborough Centre Station via Progress Avenue

• 57 Midland to Steeles Avenue
• 86A Scarborough to Toronto Zoo

86B to Highland Creek

86C to Sheppard Avenue

86D to Beechgrove Drive via Lawrence Avenue

86E Express to Sheppard Avenue (rush hours only)

• 113 Danforth to Main Street Station
• 116A Morningside to Conlins Road via Ellesmere Road

116B to Kingston Road & Eglinton Avenue (rush hours only)

116C to Finch Avenue

116E Express to University of Toronto Scarborough

• 131E Nugget Express to Old Finch/Morningview via Scarborough Centre Station (rush hours only)

External links

Media related to Kennedy Station at Wikimedia Commons

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