Vaughan Metropolitan Center (Toronto Subway)

Station building

Vaughan Metropolitan Center is an underground subway station in Vaughan, Ontario , a northern suburb of Toronto . It is near the intersection of Highway 7 and Jane Street. This is the northwest terminus of the Yonge University Line of the Toronto Subway .

station

platform

Atmospheric Lense

The station, designed by Arup and Grimshaw Architects in a post-modern style, faces south to north. Only a large egg-shaped dome is visible from the outside . Four entrances, arranged in the shape of an X, lead into the interior. The round, glass curtain wall allows daylight to shine through to the distribution level and the platform level. The Paul Raff Studio was responsible for the artistic design of the station . Their work Atmospheric Lense adorns the walls of the central dome and consists of different colored mirrors that reflect sunlight in a variety of ways. The trains stop at a wide central platform, to the south of which there is a platform change . In the north, the tracks end about 150 meters behind the end of the station, so that two trains can be parked there at night. A further extension of the route is also possible.

The SmartCentres Place bus station was built north of the subway station . It has nine stops for bus routes operated by the York Region Transit company and opened on November 3, 2019. The BRT lines operated by Viva Orange and Brampton Transit do not use this bus station . Instead, you drive on Highway 7 Rapidway , which runs right through the subway station; the stops are located above the distribution level and can be reached via escalators and elevators .

history

The official groundbreaking ceremony for the extension of the Yonge University Line took place on November 27, 2009. The actual tunnel boring work began in June 2011. The Vaughan Metropolitan Center station opened on December 17, 2017.

During the planning phase, the station was named Vaughan Corporate Center . In September 2010, a commission from the Toronto Transit Commission proposed the name Vaughan Center without consulting the Vaughan city authorities. They preferred the name Vaughan Metropolitan Center and were able to prevail with their proposal in February 2012.

The area around the subway terminus is now a low-density industrial zone, which is characterized by a few shopping centers and extensive fallow land. The city of Vaughan wants to develop this area into a new, high-density city center that will have around 25,000 residents and 11,000 jobs in 2031.