Platforms centre platform Disabled access No Opened 31 March 1973 Platform Island platform | Structure type underground Passengers (2014) 24,590 Province Ontario Tracks 2 | |
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Location 3101 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada Connections TTC buses
52 Lawrence
97 Yonge
124 Sunnybrook
162 Lawrence-Donway
320 Yonge
352 Lawrence West Address Toronto, ON M4N 3N1, Canada Similar Lawrence West, York Mills, Glencairn, Eglinton West, Summerhill | ||
Lawrence is a subway station on the Yonge–University line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located under Yonge Street at Lawrence Avenue, in the Bedford Park, Lawrence Park and Lytton Park neighbourhoods.
Contents
The station is on four levels, all the entrances to the station are at street level, the concourse and collector level is on the second level, the bus platform is on the third level, and the subway platform is on the lower level.
Entrances
There are four entrances to the station located in the surrounding area:
History
Lawrence Station was opened in 1973 as an intermediate stop between Eglinton, the former northern terminus of the Yonge line, and York Mills, which acted as a temporary terminus for a year until the subway was further extended to Finch. Lawrence was the first station on the network to feature an underground bus terminal (York Mills, St. Clair West, and Don Mills are the others). It is still one of Toronto’s deepest stations.
On 23 April 2007, TTC employee Antonio Almeida was killed in the tunnel just south of the station when a platform on his work car was dislodged.
In 2012, a series of renovations repaired the deteriorating concrete of the bus roadway and tunnel walls. Between the fall of 2012 and mid-2015, four high-capacity fire ventilation fans were installed at the station.
Nearby landmarks
Surface connections
Buses enter the station counter to the normal traffic directions so that bus doors will face the centre bus platform.