Kipling station
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Kipling
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| Location | 950 Kipling Avenue Toronto, Ontario Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°38′14″N 79°32′10″W / 43.63722°N 79.53611°WCoordinates: 43°38′14″N 79°32′10″W / 43.63722°N 79.53611°W | ||||||||||
| Platforms | centre platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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  Kipling GO Station IKEA Etobicoke Shuttle |
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| Structure type | at grade | ||||||||||
| Parking | 1465 spaces | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | November 21, 1980 | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2015) | 52,930 | ||||||||||
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Kipling is the western terminus of the Line 2 Bloor–Danforth of the Toronto subway system. The station is served by buses and subway trains operated by the Toronto Transit Commission and is adjacent to the Kipling GO Station on the Milton line of GO Transit. It is located in the Islington–City Centre West neighbourhood on St. Albans Road at Aukland Road, west of the overpass of Kipling Avenue, after which the station is named. The Toronto Parking Authority operates three commuter parking lots near the station. Notably, Kipling is the departing and arriving point for the 192 Airport Rocket bus route, which provides quick and frequent service between Toronto's subway system and Toronto Pearson International Airport.
Kipling station, in what was then the Borough of Etobicoke, officially opened on November 21, 1980, but not until the following day was it opened to the public, along with Kennedy station as part of east-west extensions to the Bloor-Danforth line. Kipling and Kennedy were designed similarly, with both stations having a centre platform allowing trains to stop at either side. The platform walls in Kipling are yellow with black stripes and show the station's name in Univers.
As a result of the initial lack of density near the station, and its location near a hydro substation, it was originally designed around commuter travel, with a large amount of parking space and a roughed-in platform for a future light rail or light metro line, like the Scarborough RT at Kennedy. Due to this design, the area around Kipling station is considered to be a travel hub and it is being further developed to contain a regional bus platform as well as improved access to the nearby Kipling GO Station.
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