Spadina (Toronto Subway)
Spadina is an underground subway station in Toronto , at the intersection of Bloor Street and Spadina Road . This is where the Yonge University Line and the Bloor Danforth Line of the Toronto Subway cross . The station is used by an average of 47,000 passengers every day (2015).
architecture
The station consists of two separate sections with side platforms on the same level, but around 150 meters apart. The platforms running in north-south direction on the Yonge University Line were originally intended to form an independent station called Lowther , but the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) decided to build a moving walkway . This had to be removed in 2004 because a new building would have been too expensive. As a transfer station, Spadina is relatively little frequented. Passengers prefer the neighboring St. George station , where the platforms of both lines are directly above one another. The underground terminus of the 510 tram is near the platforms of the Bloor-Danforth-Linie. You can also change to two bus routes.
Stylistically, the architecture of the station ranges from a simple, modernist design on the platforms of the Bloor-Danforth line to indirectly lit walls with ornate tiles on the platforms of the Yonge University line to the post-modernist tram tunnel. The station was artistically designed in three places. Morning Glory by Louise de Neverville at the exit to Kendal Avenue is a surreal enamel mural. Barren Ground Caribou by Joyce Wieland is a massive quilt on which a herd of caribou can be seen in a tundra landscape. The artists Fedelia O'Brien, Murphy Green and Chuck Heit of the Gitxsan Indians in British Columbia contributed large owl, wolf and falcon sculptures made of cedar wood.
history
The station opened on February 26, 1966, along with the Keele - Woodbine section of the Bloor-Danforth Line. Plans to extend the Yonge University Line beyond St. George to the northwest first appeared in the 1960s. This section should have been built in the median of the Spadina Expressway , which would have extended into the city center on Bloor Street. Protests from local residents led the provincial government to drop the city motorway and build the subway in a tunnel. Finally, on January 28, 1978, the line from St. George via Spadina to Wilson was opened. In the mid-1990s, the TTC had the tram line along Spadina Avenue, which had been closed three decades earlier, rebuilt. In order to disentangle the traffic flows at the Spadina underground station, the northern terminus, an underground turning loop was created. It was opened on July 27, 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Subway ridership, 2015. (PDF; 84 kB) Toronto Transit Commission, accessed December 7, 2017 (English).
- ↑ The Spadina Subway. Transit Toronto, April 24, 2008, accessed July 24, 2010 .
- ^ Art on the TTC. Transit Toronto, March 17, 2010, accessed July 24, 2010 .
- ^ Route 510 - The Spadina Streetcar. Transit Toronto, November 10, 2006, accessed July 24, 2010 .
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Bathurst ← Kipling |
 Bloor Danforth Line
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Dupont ← Vaughan Metropolitan Center |
 Yonge University Line
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St. George Finch → |
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Coordinates: 43 ° 40 ′ 2.5 ″ N , 79 ° 24 ′ 13.5 ″ W.