Downsview (TTC)

Downsview

Location

1035 Sheppard Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada

Coordinates

43°44′58″N 79°27′43″W / 43.74944°N 79.46194°WCoordinates: 43°44′58″N 79°27′43″W / 43.74944°N 79.46194°W

Platforms

centre platform

Tracks

Connections

TTC buses

84 Sheppard West
101 Downsview Park
104 Faywood
105 Dufferin North
106 York University
107 Keele North
108 Downsview
117 Alness
196 York University Rocket
329 Dufferin
384 Sheppard West

Orange

Construction

Structure type

underground

Parking

641 spaces

Disabled access

Yes

Architect

Adamson Associates Architects
Stevens Group Architects

History

Opened

March 30, 1996

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

37,670

Services

Preceding station		TTC		Following station
Terminus		Yonge–University		Wilson toward Finch
Downsview Park toward Vaughan		Yonge–University Extension in 2018		Wilson toward Finch

Downsview (to be renamed Sheppard West as of May 7, 2017) is a subway station on the Yonge–University line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station, which is located at the southeast corner of Sheppard Avenue West-William R. Allen Road intersection, is currently the northern terminus of the western branch of the line, until the Toronto–York Spadina Subway Extension is completed, which is scheduled to open on December 31, 2017. Wi-Fi service is available at this station.

The station opened in 1996 in what was then the City of North York, and the Viva Orange bus rapid transit route of York Region's Viva Rapid Transit commenced service on October 16, 2005. The large commuter parking lot, accessible via Allen Road and Sheppard Avenue, opened in July 2005.

When this station opened, it was among the first accessible stations.

Downsview is the only station in the subway system to use lowercase letters in its signage.

Downsview station will be officially renamed "Sheppard West" on May 7, 2017, in anticipation of the opening of the Spadina extension to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. The new name was proposed in 2010 and on September 28, 2012, the renaming was approved.

Originally, the first new station on the Spadina extension was to be called Sheppard West, but it was located close to the entrance to Downsview Park. On the other hand, Downsview station was better identified as being on Sheppard Avenue, and was further away from the entrance to Downsview Park. Thus, the TTC proposed swapping the names of the two stations to avoid confusion.

Although the name change becomes official on May 7, 2017, the change will gradually be phased in and completed prior to opening the Spadina extension in late 2017. The name change will cost $800,000, most of which covers the cost to update the subway train announcement system on subway trains. $150,000 will be to update signs and maps on trains and within stations.

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