Pedestrian entrance on the south service road of Eglinton Avenue
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Location | 2455 Eglinton Avenue East Toronto, Ontario Canada |
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Coordinates | 43°43′57″N 79°15′49″W / 43.73250°N 79.26361°WCoordinates: 43°43′57″N 79°15′49″W / 43.73250°N 79.26361°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 centre platform (on Line 2) 2 side platforms (on Line 3) |
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Tracks | 3 (2 on Line 2 and 1 for Line 3) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Structure type | underground (Line 2) elevated (Line 3) |
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Platform levels | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Parking | 1,135 spaces | ||||||||||||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | November 21, 1980 March 22, 1985 (Line 3) |
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Passengers (2015) | 69,790 (Line 2) 35,790 (Line 3) 105,580 (Total) |
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Kennedy is both a terminal and interchange station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth and Line 3 Scarborough of the Toronto subway system. Opened in 1980, it is located east of the Kennedy Road and Eglinton Avenue intersection. With the adjacent Kennedy GO station on the Stouffville line of GO Transit, Kennedy is an intermodal transit hub and the fifth busiest station in the system, after St. George, Bloor-Yonge, Sheppard-Yonge, and Union, serving a total of approximately 105,580 customer trips a day.
The station's main complex consists of four floors with wheelchair accessible entrances. The ground level is the bus terminal surrounded with ten platforms that serve eleven Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus routes. Wi-Fi service is available at this station.
The station is to be overhauled and expanded over the next decade as Line 3 will be decommissioned once the extension of Line 2 to Scarborough City Centre has been completed. The future light rail line, Line 5 Eglinton, will terminate at the station when its first phase opens in 2020. The city's proposed commuter rail line is also planned to connect at Kennedy.
The station is located south of Eglinton Avenue, east of Kennedy Road. The station complex consists of four levels. The S-series trains of Line 3 Scarborough ascend via a bridge to the platform located at the top level of the station complex. The ground floor (third floor) consists of ten bus platforms surrounding the main building. Four satellite pedestrian entrances to the station can be found at the South Parking Lot, next to the Don Montgomery Community Centre, at the service road of Eglinton Avenue, and the passenger pick-up and drop-off roundabout on Transway Crescent. Below the ground level is the concourse that spans the length of the station, connecting to all pedestrian entrances. Below the concourse is the platform for subway trains on the Line 2 Bloor–Danforth.