Bloor-Yonge (Toronto Subway)
Bloor-Yonge is an underground subway station in Toronto , at the intersection of Bloor Street and Yonge Street . This is where the Bloor Danforth Line and the Yonge University Line , the two most important lines of the Toronto Subway, cross . The station is used by an average of 399,430 passengers every day (2015), making it the busiest of the entire network. The Toronto Reference Library and Hudson's Bay Center are nearby .
history
The station opened on March 30, 1954, along with the Union - Eglinton section of the Yonge Subway , the first subway on Canadian soil. The station equipped with side platforms was initially called Bloor and offered a transition to the tram lines on Bloor Street. On February 26, 1966, the opening of the first section of the Bloor-Danforth line followed, making the station, renamed Bloor-Yonge, one of the city's most important transport hubs. The lower, newer part has a central platform.
Due to the heavy load, the Toronto Transit Commission was interested in expanding the station early on. In 1992 she took construction work on the surface as an opportunity to include the part used by the Yonge University Line in the excavation and to widen the side platforms. The plan was to install a central platform in a second step so that passengers could have reached the trains from two sides ( Spanish solution ). The TTC decided not to do so, as this would have meant that the station would have been blocked for months. The widening of the station section of the Bloor-Danforth Line was also omitted for similar reasons.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Subway ridership, 2015. (PDF; 84 kB) Toronto Transit Commission, accessed December 7, 2017 (English).
| Previous station |
Toronto Subway ( List of Stations ) |
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Bay ← Kipling |
 Bloor Danforth Line
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Sherbourne Kennedy → |
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Wellesley ← Vaughan Metropolitan Center |
 Yonge University Line
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Rosedale Finch → |
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Coordinates: 43 ° 40 ′ 14.5 " N , 79 ° 23 ′ 9.8" W.