Platforms side platforms Disabled access No Province Ontario Tracks 2 | Structure type underground Opened 25 February 1966 Passengers (2014) 13,570 | |
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Location 991 Woodbine Avenue
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada Connections TTC buses
91 Woodbine
92 Woodbine South
300 Bloor - Danforth Address Toronto, ON M4C 4B8, Canada Similar Coxwell, Donlands, Victoria Park, Broadview, Main Street | ||
Woodbine is a station on the Bloor–Danforth line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station is at the southwest corner of Woodbine Avenue and Strathmore Boulevard, just north of Danforth Avenue.
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The entrance, collector, and bus platform are at street level, the concourse is on the second level, and the subway platforms are on the lower level. Wi-Fi service is available at this station.
In terms of accessibility, while there are escalators leading from platform level, there is at least one small sub-flight of stairs between it and a second escalator in order to reach the surface. There are no elevators between the track level and the surface, so it is therefore not a wheelchair-accessible station. However, new elevators from street level to concourse and platforms are part of ongoing renovations scheduled for completion in 2017.
History
Woodbine Station was opened in 1966 as the eastern terminus of the original segment of Bloor-Danforth line. Although the station was a terminus for two years, it was known that this would be temporary, so it was built with outside platforms rather than a single centre platform that would have conveniently served departures from either track.
The Bloor-Danforth subway line replaced the Bloor streetcar line, which ran from Jane Loop to Luttrell Loop, near the present Jane and Victoria Park stations. With the opening of the subway from Keele to Woodbine in 1966, streetcar service was reduced to a short Bloor route from Jane Loop to Keele station, and a Danforth route from Woodbine station to Luttrell Loop. These portions were in turn eliminated when the subway was extended in 1968 to run from Islington to Warden. However, evidence of the temporary loop at Woodbine station for Danforth streetcars still exists: a single disconnected streetcar track runs west from Cedarvale Avenue along Strathmore Boulevard, curving towards the east end of the station, and an irregular wall in the station's mezzanine indicates the former passage to the streetcar platform. The walled-off section of this passage has been partially converted into a staff room and storage area.
Surface connections
Second exit
In June 2010 the TTC announced plans to add second exits to 3 subway stations on the Bloor-Danforth line. These exits were recommended after a fire safety audit due to the stations only having one primary means of emergency access/egress.
The planned construction would see a new exit only structure built at surface level on Strathmore Boulevard. In order to build the exits the TTC expropriated residential land and demolished a home on the north-west corner of Woodbine and Strathmore. The decision to do so proved controversial in the neighborhoods affected; although the TTC stated it would review their plan, it ultimately went ahead. Construction is scheduled to finish in the Summer of 2017.