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Highway 407 station

Coordinates: 43°47′02″N 79°31′23″W / 43.78389°N 79.52306°W / 43.78389; -79.52306
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Highway 407
Highway 407 station at platform level
General information
Location7332 Jane Street,
Vaughan, Ontario
Canada
Coordinates43°47′02″N 79°31′23″W / 43.78389°N 79.52306°W / 43.78389; -79.52306
PlatformsCentre platform
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Parking550 spaces
AccessibleYes
ArchitectAedas
Architectural stylePostmodern architecture
Other information
WebsiteOfficial station page
History
OpenedDecember 17, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-12-17)[1]
Passengers
2023–2024[2]7,649
Rank60 of 70
Services
Preceding station Toronto Transit Commission Following station
Vaughan
Terminus
 Line 1 Yonge–University Pioneer Village
towards Finch
Location
Map

Highway 407 is a Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway. It is located at the southwest quadrant of the Jane Street and Highway 407 interchange, in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. Opened on December 17, 2017, it is one of two Toronto subway stations that are outside the city of Toronto, the other being Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station.

Description

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Highway 407 station fare concourse

The design team for the station was AECOM as the prime consultant, Aedas as design architect, and Parsons Brinckerhoff as design engineers.[3] The station is an intermodal transit facility providing connections to York Region Transit (YRT), GO Transit buses, and Ontario Northland intercity coaches. It will also connect to a future Highway 407 Transitway.[4] The station has a 550-space commuter parking lot[5] and a large 18-bay regional bus terminal. This station has been engineered and positioned for the construction of underground bus platforms for the proposed Highway 407 Transitway.[6] The station has an open design, particularly to the east overlooking the Black Creek. Due to structural elements related to the water table, the centre platform has no columns, with all weight being transferred to the sides to counter buoyancy.[6] The station has a metal cool roof to reflect heat from the sun.[7]

Sky Ellipse glass panel artwork by David Pearl

Toronto artist David Pearl designed the artwork titled Sky Ellipse consisting of multi-coloured glass panels for the subway skylights and the western bus terminal glass facade. The panels show moving projections of colour. Sunlight filters down to platform level.[8][4][3]

History

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The station opened as part of an extension on December 17, 2017.[9] On November 27, 2009, the official groundbreaking ceremony was held for the extension and major tunnelling operations began in June 2011.[10] The excavated station box was used to launch the tunnel boring machines north towards Highway 7 and south towards Steeles Avenue.[11]

While Highway 407, along with the five other extension stations, had a fare booth installed as per original station plans,[12] the booth never housed collectors as the station was among the first eight to discontinue sales of legacy TTC fare media. Presto vending machines were available at the station's opening to sell Presto cards and to load funds or monthly passes onto them.[13] On May 3, 2019, this station became one of the first ten stations to sell Presto tickets via Presto vending machines.[14]

In 2018, Highway 407 station had the second-lowest usage of the six new stations along the extension, at 3,400 people per day. The lowest was 2,500 people per day at Downsview Park station, and the highest was 34,100 people per day at York University. However, after GO bus routes were changed to terminate at Highway 407 station instead of the York University campus, usage at Highway 407 station was expected to increase, as much of the ridership at this station comes from York University students and staff transferring from GO buses.[15] Consequently in 2019, the station saw a surge in usage, with 13,956 people per day.[16]

Fare zone

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To avoid implementing a payment-on-exit system, the station is part of the Toronto TTC fare zone despite being located in York Region.[17] This is in contrast to TTC-contracted bus routes, where riders are required to pay extra fare (for YRT) when travelling beyond the municipal boundary at Steeles Avenue. This is analogous to the situation in 1968, when the TTC had an internal fare zone system and "Zone 2" fares were charged when crossing the zones on surface routes, yet no extra fare was required to reach five new subway stations which opened outside the pre-amalgamation Toronto city limits in Zone 2 that year. Zone 2 fares were charged, however, when transferring to connecting bus routes in the suburban municipalities of Metropolitan Toronto.[18] Similarly, at this station (as well as at the adjacent Vaughan Metropolitan Centre), separate fares are charged when transferring between the TTC subway and connecting regional transit buses, such as YRT, which are the only surface routes serving it.

Between January 2018 and March 2020, there was a $1.50 fare discount for GO bus riders transferring to or from the TTC subway if paying a single fare by Presto card.[19][20][21] A GTA-wide fare integration program, which began on February 26, 2024, enabled free or discounted transfers between GO Transit, YRT buses and the TTC subway via the Presto card or contactless credit and debit cards.[22]

Highway 407 Bus Terminal

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Highway 407 Bus Terminal
General information
Owned byGO Transit
Bus routes
  •  40  Hamilton/Richmond Hill
  •  41   47   48  407 West
  •  52   54   56  407 East
  •  66 
  •  101  /  102  Toronto–North Bay
  •  201  /  202  Toronto–Sudbury
Bus stands18
Bus operators
Construction
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station codeGO Transit: 02674
Fare zone19
WebsiteOfficial station page
History
OpenedDecember 30, 2017 (2017-12-30)[23]

There are no connecting TTC buses at this station but the regional bus terminal (located within the same building but outside the station's TTC fare-paid area) serves YRT, GO Transit, and Ontario Northland bus routes.[24][25][26] It is the only regional bus terminal serving a TTC subway station that is part of the main station building and is the largest bus terminal in the GO Transit system with 18 bays (5 for YRT and 13 for GO Transit) plus 17 layover bays. It includes a GO customer service counter, Presto and GO ticket vending machines, and washrooms.[23]

YRT routes serving the terminal:[27]

Route Name Additional information
20 Jane Northbound to Teston Road via Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station, Vaughan Mills Terminal, and Major Mackenzie West Terminal; southbound to Pioneer Village station
320 Jane Express Northbound to Major Mackenzie West Terminal via Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station and Vaughan Mills Terminal
361 Nashville Express Northbound to Major Mackenzie Drive via Highways 407 and 427
(Rush hour service)
Mobility Plus

GO Transit routes serving the terminal:[28]

Route Name Additional information
40 Hamilton / Richmond Hill Westbound to Hamilton GO Centre via Mississauga Transitway and Toronto Pearson International Airport; eastbound to Richmond Hill Centre
41 407 West Westbound to Hamilton GO Centre; eastbound to Pickering GO Station
Weekdays only
41A Westbound to Square One Bus Terminal; eastbound to Pickering GO Station
Weekdays only
47 To Hamilton GO Centre
47D To Bramalea GO
Seasonal weekday express
48 To University of Guelph
Weekdays only
52 407 East To Oshawa GO Station
Weekends only
54 To Mount Joy GO Station
Weekdays only
56 Westbound to Oakville GO Station; eastbound to Oshawa GO Station
Weekdays only
56A Westbound to Square One Bus Terminal; eastbound to Oshawa GO Station
Weekday express
56B To Oakville GO Station
Weekdays only
66 Barrie To East Gwillimbury GO Station
Weekdays only

Ontario Northland also serves the station with two daily northbound and two daily southbound trips on its Toronto–North Bay route, as well as two daily trips in each direction from Toronto–Sudbury.

References

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  1. ^ Beattie, Samantha; Spurr, Ben (December 16, 2017). "After delays, cost overruns, and tragedy, a subway to Vaughan is complete". thestar.com. Archived from the original on December 17, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  2. ^ "Subway ridership, 2023–2024" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved November 12, 2024. This table shows the typical number of customer-boardings made on each subway line and the number of customers travelling to and from each station platform on a typical weekday in Sep 2023–Aug 2024.
  3. ^ a b "TYSSE: Highway 407 Station". UrbanToronto. Archived from the original on October 5, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Highway 407 Station". Toronto Transit Commission. Archived from the original on October 5, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  5. ^ "Highway 407 Station". Ttc.ca. Archived from the original on April 16, 2022. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Highway 407 Station – Approval of Conceptual Design" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. November 17, 2009. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 27, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  7. ^ "TTC Green Initiatives". Toronto Transit Commission. Archived from the original on December 3, 2018. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  8. ^ Dixon, Guy (September 29, 2017). "A subway station worth lingering in". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on October 4, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
  9. ^ "Justin Trudeau joins premier, mayor at TTC line 1 extension opening". CBC News. December 15, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2023.
  10. ^ "Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension Project". Railway Technology. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
  11. ^ "FCC awarded Toronto Subway construction contract worth 304 million euro - FCC". www.fcc.es. Retrieved February 6, 2024. The project will be built using two tunnel-boring machines (TBM) in three phases: the first, southward to the depot, will be 1,672 metres long; the other two will depart from the 407 Highway Station in different directions: southward to Steeles West Station (1,024 m) and northward to the end of the line (963 m).
  12. ^ "York University station – Site plan (P. 19)" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 26, 2020. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
  13. ^ "New Customer Service Agents at TTC stations". Toronto Transit Commission. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  14. ^ "TTC extends sales of Presto Tickets to 10 stations". Toronto Transit Commission. May 6, 2019. Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
  15. ^ Spurr, Ben (December 16, 2018). "Two stations on new York subway extension among the least used on the TTC network". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on December 18, 2018. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  16. ^ "Subway ridership, 2019" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 3, 2023. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
  17. ^ James Bow. "A Subway to York University and Beyond: North of Finch". Transit Toronto. Archived from the original on September 11, 2019. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  18. ^ James Bow. "A History of Subways on Bloor and Queen Streets: Celebrating the Subway's first stop in the suburbs". Transit Toronto. Archived from the original on May 27, 2013. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  19. ^ Janus, Andrea (October 6, 2017). "Cheaper fare coming for transit users who ride both TTC and GO". CBC News. Archived from the original on December 15, 2017. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  20. ^ "Discounted Double Fare – Learn About | PRESTO: Tap on. Ride Easy". Archived from the original on October 18, 2018. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  21. ^ Westoll, Nick (January 21, 2020). "Discount fare program for riders transferring between TTC, GO Transit and UP Express set to end". Global News. Corus Entertainment. Archived from the original on March 25, 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
  22. ^ "Ontario rolling out GTA-wide transit fare integration on Feb. 26". CBC News. February 6, 2024. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
  23. ^ a b "Hwy 407 Bus Terminal". GO Transit. Archived from the original on September 30, 2020. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
  24. ^ Christie, Nathan (November 28, 2014). "Catching Up With TTC's Upcoming Highway 407 Station". Urban Toronto. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
  25. ^ "TTC Line 1 Subway Extension". York Region Transit. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
  26. ^ "Toronto – Barrie – Bracebridge – Huntsville – North Bay" (PDF). Ontario Northland. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 21, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  27. ^ "Terminals". YRT.ca. Archived from the original on May 31, 2019. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  28. ^ "Routes and Departures". GO Transit.
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