Lawrence West (Toronto Subway)
Lawrence West is an above-ground subway station in Toronto . It lies on the Yonge-University line of the Toronto Subway , at the corner of Allen Road and Lawrence Avenue . The station has a central platform and is used by an average of 19,950 passengers every day (2015). You can change to five bus routes, including Toronto Airport . The station opened on January 28, 1978, along with the section between St. George and Wilson .
The station is in the median of Allen Road, a multi-lane slip road to Highway 401 , under the Lawrence Avenue bridge. The enclosed platform area is also bridged by a bus turning loop with a stop zone. Glass walls and wide stairs accentuate the openness of the station, the glass is framed by a characteristic orange-colored metal grille. Orange framed skylights in the platform roof let in natural daylight; the benches are prism-shaped and made of yellow, orange and brown ceramic tiles . Similar tiles adorn the floor and the central pillars. The architecture firm Dunlop Farrow Aitken was responsible for the design . Spacing ... Aerial Highways , a 90 meter long tile mural by Claude Breeze, adorns the entrance area on Lawrence Avenue.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Subway ridership, 2015. (PDF; 84 kB) Toronto Transit Commission, accessed December 7, 2017 (English).
- ^ Design for Transit, Canadian Architect 21, 1976
- ^ Art on the TTC. Transit Toronto, March 17, 2010, accessed August 2, 2010 .
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Coordinates: 43 ° 42'56.1 " N , 79 ° 26'38.6" W.