Platforms Centre platform Structure type Underground Status Under construction Platform Island platform | Tracks 2 Disabled access Yes Province Ontario Architect Grimshaw Architects | |
Location Highway 7 at Millway Ave.
Vaughan, Ontario
Canada Address Interchange Way, Vaughan, ON L4K 5Z7, Canada Connections Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (York Region Transit), Highway 7 Rapidway Similar York University, Downsview, Spadina, Finch West, Downsview Park | ||
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre is a subway station under construction on the extension of the western branch of the Yonge–University–Spadina line of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada.
Contents
- Description
- Station name
- Regional Bus Terminal
- Bus service
- Platform assignments
- City centre development
- References
It is located under Millway Avenue on the north side of Highway 7, west of Jane Street, and is one of two new stations that are outside the City of Toronto in York Region. The project was expected to be completed by the autumn of 2016 but it is now estimated that 31 December 2017 will be the earliest achievable date to deliver the project.
The TTC has not decided how this will affect fare pricing; TTC bus riders are now required to pay extra fare when their bus crosses Steeles. However, in 1968, five subway stations opened inside the TTC's "Zone 2" area at the time (Islington, Royal York, Old Mill, Victoria Park and Warden), yet no extra fare was required to reach those stations.
Geographically, this will be the northernmost station in the system.
Description
On 27 November 2009 the ground-breaking ceremony was held for the Spadina Extension, and major tunnelling operations began in June 2011. The original project schedule expected the completion by 2015 but that is now delayed to autumn 2016-2018.
Grimshaw Architects have been retained to design the station, which will have a domed ovoid entrance building just north of the Viva platforms on Highway 7. The building will have four entrances in an X pattern; these will be the only entrances at the station's opening, but knockout panels are planned for future underground access to the station from evolving development (including a future YRT bus terminal).
Station name
Since the Spadina extension had been first drawn up, the TTC proposed "Vaughan Corporate Centre" as the station name and this is the name that the TTC still today uses in all their construction references. A Viva stop at the site of the station has the same name. On September 30, 2010, a TTC committee recommended that the name be changed to "Vaughan Centre", despite the City of Vaughan's request that it be named Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. However, the TTC delayed a final decision on the committee's report until February 2012, when Vaughan's preference of the full name was adopted. The TTC originally rejected the name to avoid branding it to a specific development. As well it would be long causing inconvenience when conveying it. Additionally "Vaughan Centre" is more consistent with other regional centre station names (i.e. North York Centre and Scarborough Centre). A survey was conducted between September 23 and October 21 of 2011 by the TTC to determine the preferred name. 80% supported "Vaughan Centre", 5% supported "Vaughan Corporate Centre", 9% supported "Vaughan Metropolitan Centre" and 7% supported another name. Other discussed names were "Highway 7", "Highway 7 West", "Jane North", "Edgeley", "Creditstone", and "Applewood"'.
Regional Bus Terminal
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Terminal or SmartREIT Terminal is a proposed York Region Transit and Viva bus terminal, located north of Highway 7 to the west side of the relocated Millway Avenue in Vaughan, Ontario
The terminal will be a multi-modal transportation hub and is expected to open in 2017. It is immediately north of the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre subway station, which is the northern terminus of the Spadina Subway Extension. It will have an underground walkway linking it with that subway station.
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre has been identified by Metrolinx as a transportation mobility hub.
Bus service
York Region Transit (YRT), Viva, and 501 Züm Queen (Brampton Transit) routes connect to this terminal.
Platform assignments
City centre development
Vaughan plans to build a transit-oriented city centre from scratch around the station in what is a low density area featuring big box stores. Vaughan projects that by 2031, the new downtown will have 25,000 residents and employment for more than 11,000 people. Vaughan planning commissioner John MacKenzie said that Mississauga took 20 to 25 years to build its city centre without a subway, but hopes to accelerate the process in Vaughan with the help of the subway extension.