St. Clair West (Toronto Subway)
St. Clair West is an underground subway station in Toronto . It is on the Yonge University Line of the Toronto Subway , on St. Clair Avenue between Bathurst Street and Tweedsmuir Avenue. The station is used by an average of 28,110 passengers every day (2015). Nearby are the Casa Loma and the Spadina House .
station
The station is at the top of the Nordheimer Ravine gorge. Immediately above is the sports field of a private school. While the north entrance leads directly to St. Clair Avenue, the south entrance is integrated into a supermarket. There are transfer options to four bus lines and to tram line 512, which runs underground in the station area.
Along with Wilson, St. Clair is one of two stations on the Yonge University Line designed by the company's in-house architects, the Toronto Transit Commission . It is colorful and has a wide range of artistic details, such as ceramic tiles and sculpted concrete surfaces. Backlit orange panels and an abstract tile pattern reminiscent of a barcode set this station apart from others. The abstract email mural Tempo by Gordon Rayner adorns the distribution level .
Another work of art, The Commuters by Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, was installed during the 2016/17 renovations. It consists of bronze snails about 50 cm long that seem to be glued to the wall of a staircase. The artists were inspired by Pierre Berton's children 's book The Secret World of Og .
history
At this point, the underground station was originally supposed to be in the median of the planned Spadina Expressway city motorway , which was to run through the Nordheim Ravine. After protests from residents, the provincial government decided in 1971 to only support the construction of the subway south of the then city limits (not far from the Eglinton West station ) and not to complete the expressway to the city center as planned. The elimination of the city motorway meant that the subway route was built in a tunnel. The section between St. George and Wilson was opened on January 28, 1978.
The streetcar along St. Clair Avenue, opened in 1913, crossed the Nordheimer Ravine by means of a bridge in the area of today's subway station. In order to create better transfer conditions, the city of Toronto had the route relocated over a length of around 200 meters in a tunnel, which was opened together with an underground turning loop on the same day as the subway.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Subway ridership, 2015. (PDF; 84 kB) Toronto Transit Commission, accessed December 7, 2017 (English).
- ^ Artistic overhaul coming to five TTC subway stations. Metronews, December 9, 2015, accessed December 8, 2017 .
- ↑ The Spadina Subway. Transit Toronto, April 24, 2008, accessed August 2, 2010 .
- ^ Route 512 - The St Clair Streetcar. Transit Toronto, March 2, 2010, accessed August 2, 2010 .
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Coordinates: 43 ° 41 ′ 1.9 ″ N , 79 ° 24 ′ 55.1 ″ W.