College (Toronto Subway)
College is an underground subway station in Toronto . It lies on the Yonge-University line of the Toronto Subway , at the intersection of Yonge Street and College Street / Carlton Street. The station has side platforms and is used by an average of 47,790 passengers every day (2015).
Nearby are College Park Mall , Toronto Police Service headquarters , Maple Leaf Gardens sports arena and part of Ryerson University . There are transfer options to three bus routes and the 506 tram. The station opened on March 30, 1954 along with the Union - Eglinton section , the oldest subway on Canadian soil.
The station is adorned with two murals by Charles Pachter called Hockey Knights in Canada (named after the television show Hockey Night in Canada ). The one on the western platform represents the Toronto Maple Leafs , the one on the eastern platform represents its greatest rival, the Canadiens de Montréal . In 1984, when the murals were made, the Maple Leafs were still playing in the Maple Leaf Gardens. Its owner Harold Ballard wanted to prevent the use of the Leafs logo unless the Canadiens mural was not executed. Julian Porter, chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission , intervened in court and successfully pointed out that a logo on a work of art was not a violation of copyright law.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Subway ridership, 2015. (PDF; 84 kB) Toronto Transit Commission, accessed December 7, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Geoffrey York: "TTC challenge set on Ballard's edict.", The Globe and Mail , July 25, 1984, p. P1
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Coordinates: 43 ° 39 ′ 40.9 ″ N , 79 ° 22 ′ 59 ″ W.