- Dundas West (TTC)
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Dundas West
TTC Subway Station
Station statistics Address 1525 Bloor Street West Coordinates 43°39′25″N 79°27′10.5″W / 43.65694°N 79.452917°WCoordinates: 43°39′25″N 79°27′10.5″W / 43.65694°N 79.452917°W Lines Bloor–DanforthConnections 504 KingTTC busesStructure Underground Platforms Side platforms Tracks 2 Other information Opened 25 February 1966 Accessible 
Presto card No Traffic Passengers (2009-10) 26,500 Services Preceding station TTC Following station toward KiplingBloor–Danforth toward KennedyDundas West is a station on the Bloor–Danforth line in Toronto, Canada. It now ranks as the 29th busiest station in the system. Its postal address is 1525 Bloor Street West; the main entrance, however, is on Dundas Street, at the corner of Edna Avenue. The station is about 200 meters west of the Bloor GO Station on GO Transit's Georgetown line.
A McDonald's restaurant serves the station, with access from both the fare-paid and non-fare-paid areas of the station's upper level. There is a Gateway Newstand on the mezzanine level.
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Overview
Vincent Yard looking westwards towards Keele Subway Station.
To the east of the station, the subway runs in a bored tunnel until just before the next station (Lansdowne). This allowed the tracks to pass underneath nearby railway lines without disturbing them during construction. If the tunnels had not been bored underneath the railway lines, the subway would have had to travel above them via an elevated structure or by direct underpass, as the railways are all at grade level. To the west, the tracks follow a short "cut and cover" tunnel before emerging outside at the Dorval Portal. Trains run in open-air until they enter Keele Station.
South of the subway platforms, underground, are the four tunnels that comprise the Vincent Subway Yard. This station is also home to the Subway Track Maintenance Office, located on the Mezzanine level.
Nearby landmarks include The Crossways residential and retail complex, Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School, The Lithuanian House banquet hall, Roncesvalles and The Junction neighbourhoods.
Looking toward the bus bays of Dundas West Station.History
Opened in 1966, Dundas West was then the second most western station on the Bloor-Danforth Line until the line was extended beyond Keele to Islington.
In 2002, as part of a scheduled reconstruction of the streetcar tracks on Dundas Street, a second streetcar bay was added to the station in an effort to improve reliability on both the 504 King and 505 Dundas streetcar routes. Until the completion of the second bay, a streetcar waiting in the station on either route could hold up vehicles on the other.
Surface connections
Main article: List of bus routes in Toronto- 40 Junction to Runnymede
- 168 Symington to Rogers Rd and Weston Rd
- 193 Exhibition Rocket - operates during the Canadian National Exhibition only
- 504 King to Broadview Station
- 505 Dundas to Broadview Station
Expansion
Adjacent Bloor GO Station will be a stop on the new Air Rail Link running from Union Station to Toronto Pearson International Airport. It is being designed and built by Metrolinx in time for the 2015 Pan American Games. The agency will also own and operate the line.[1]
To support this, a direct connection will be made between the stations by way of a new tunnel and upgraded lighting.[2]
References
- ^ "Airport link plan tackles fears in Weston area, premier says" By Tess Kalinowski & Rob Benzie, Toronto Star. January 22 2009
- ^ "GO and TTC make a connection at Dundas West" Tess Kalinowski, Toronto Star. March 22 2011
External links
Categories:- Bloor-Danforth Line Stations
- Toronto streetcar system
- Railway stations opened in 1966
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