Bloor–Yonge station
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Bloor–Yonge
 
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| Location | 20 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°40′16″N 79°23′09″W / 43.67111°N 79.38583°WCoordinates: 43°40′16″N 79°23′09″W / 43.67111°N 79.38583°W | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Toronto Transit Commission | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms |
Side platforms (Line 1) Centre platform (Line 2) |
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| Tracks | 4 (2 on each level) | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||
| Platform levels | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Architect | Charles B. Dolphin | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | March 30, 1954 (Line 1) February 26, 1966 (Line 2) |
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| Passengers (2015) | 216,190 (Line 1) 183,240 (Line 2) 399,430 total Ranked 1st of 69 |
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Bloor–Yonge is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University and Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located downtown, under the intersection of Yonge Street and Bloor Street. It is the busiest subway station in Toronto; more than 400,000 rides are taken on an average weekday. Wi-Fi is available at this station.
The station was opened in 1954 and designed by Charles B. Dolphin. It was originally named "Bloor", and connected with a pair of enclosed platforms in the centre of Bloor Street to allow interchange with Bloor streetcars within the fare-paid zone. When the streetcars were replaced with the Bloor-Danforth subway in 1966, the station began to be shown on maps as "Bloor–Yonge". However, actual platform signs still show "Bloor" on the Yonge–University line and "Yonge" on the Bloor–Danforth line, following a naming style common in New York subway station complexes, where only the platform's cross street is shown on the platform signs.
Similarly, the automated station announcement system installed from 2007–2008 refers to the station as "Bloor" on Line 1 and "Yonge" on Line 2 respectively. The new Toronto Rocket subway trains that operate on Line 1 refers to the station as "Bloor–Yonge" along with "Change for Line 2". It is the only TTC station named in this way; all other interchanges share the same name for both lines, including Sheppard–Yonge.
The station used to feature a small retail concourse along the corridor leading from the entrance at the south side of Bloor Street. This concourse was closed and disappeared during the construction of the office building at 33 Bloor Street East in the late 1980s.
Due to its congestion, the TTC has had to expand the station. In 1992, it took advantage of building construction over the Yonge–University portion of the station to open it out and widen the platforms. This was the first stage of a plan, known as the Spanish solution, to enable trains to open their doors on both sides: the tracks would next have been slewed outwards within the widened station, and a central platform built between them. The TTC does not intend to proceed with that plan.
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