Dundas West (TTC)

Dundas West
File:Dundas West TTC McEntrance.JPG
Location	2365 Dundas Street West Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates
Platforms	Side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	TTC buses
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	25 February 1966
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	27,300
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Keele toward Kipling Bloor–Danforth Lansdowne toward Kennedy Terminus 504 King Roncesvalles, King St. and Broadview Ave. toward Broadview 505 Dundas Streetcar line toward Broadview

Dundas West is a station on the Bloor–Danforth line in Toronto, Canada. It is located just north of Bloor Street West at the corner of Dundas Street and Edna Avenue. The station is about 200 meters west of the Bloor GO Station on GO Transit's Kitchener 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, and there is a Gateway Newstand on the mezzanine level.

Overview

Looking westwards over Vincent Yard towards the elevated Keele Station

To the east of the station, the subway runs in a twin bored tunnel until just before the next station (Lansdowne). This allowed the tracks to pass underneath nearby railway lines without disturbing them during construction. 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.

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. At that time, this station became accessible with elevators.

Surface connections

File:Dundas West TTC streetcars.JPG

Streetcar and bus platforms

Main article: List of Toronto Transit Commission bus routes

• 40 Junction to Runnymede Road
• 168 Symington to Rogers Road and Weston Road
• 193 Exhibition Rocket to West Entrance - operates during the Canadian National Exhibition only
• 304 Blue Night King to Broadview Station
• 306 Blue Night Carlton to Main Street Station
• 504 King to Broadview Station
• 505 Dundas to Broadview Station

Expansion

Adjacent Bloor GO Station will be a stop on the Union Pearson Express 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.

To support this, a direct connection will be made between the stations by way of a new tunnel and upgraded lighting in 2017. Until then customers travelling between the TTC and GO/UPX will have to walk about 300 metres along Bloor St. to the primary entrance for the Bloor GO station.

External links

• Dundas West Station at the Toronto Transit Commission