Platforms centre platform Disabled access Yes Platform Island platform Province Ontario Architect Foster + Partners | Structure type Underground Opening Expected for 2018 Tracks 2 Status Under construction | |
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Location Keele Campus (York University)
Toronto, Ontario
Canada Address Toronto, ON M3J 2S5, Canada Similar Finch West, Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, Downsview, Downsview Park, Spadina | ||
York University is a subway station under construction on the extension of the Yonge–University–Spadina line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. When built, it will be located on the grounds of York University’s main Keele campus, near Ian Macdonald and York Boulevards. The main entrance will be located within the university common.
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Description
More than 1,400 TTC buses serve the campus every weekday at the York University Bus Loop, in addition to hundreds more spread across other services including Go Transit, York Region Transit/Viva, Brampton Transit and Greyhound. The development of a subway station will greatly reduce the number of buses entering campus by effectively eliminating the 196 York University Rocket bus route, and will serve to greatly improve public transit access to the university and surrounding area.
The university’s main buildings lie to the west of the proposed location. Seneca College’s York campus is found to the south, and the Aviva Centre to the west.
The station is being built underground, lying on a northwest-southeast axis. The line will approach from Finch West station along Keele Street, then bend northwestward to meet the station.
Architecture firm Foster+Partners has been commissioned for the design, which includes a curving ramp connecting the entrances.
The official ground breaking ceremony for the Spadina Extension was held on 27 November 2009, however tunneling operations did not commence until June 2011. The project was expected to be completed by the autumn of 2016, but it is now estimated that 31 December 2017 would be the earliest achievable date to deliver the project.
The first stage of construction for the station began in May 2011. On October 11, 2011, one worker was killed and five others injured when a drilling rig working on the station site collapsed.
Surface connections
A transfer is required to connect between the subway and surface bus routes.