Main Street station (Toronto)

Main Street
Location	315 Main Street Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43°41′20.5″N 79°18′06″W / 43.689028°N 79.30167°W / 43.689028; -79.30167Coordinates: 43°41′20.5″N 79°18′06″W / 43.689028°N 79.30167°W / 43.689028; -79.30167
Platforms	side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	TTC buses and Streetcars  20  Cliffside  23  Dawes  62  Mortimer  64  Main  87  Cosburn  113  Danforth  135  Gerrard  300   Bloor - Danforth  306   Carlton  506  Carlton Danforth GO Station
Construction
Structure type	underground
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	10 May 1968
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	24,130
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Woodbine toward Kipling Bloor–Danforth Victoria Park toward Kennedy Danforth Avenue toward High Park 506 Carlton Terminus

Main Street is a station on the Bloor–Danforth line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is located on the east side of Main Street a short distance north of Danforth Avenue. Connections to GO Transit's commuter train service on the Lakeshore East line can be made at Danforth GO Station, approximately 300 metres to the south on the east side of Main Street. Wi-Fi service is available at this station.

This station became wheelchair accessible in 2004. An elevator provides access from the streetcar and bus platforms at street level, where the main entrance and collector's booth are located, to an intermediate mezzanine area and directly to the platform for eastbound trains. A second elevator provides a connection between the mezzanine and the westbound subway platform. To facilitate accessibility automatic sliding doors were added at the street entrance and on the north side of the station building, along with an accessible faregate and improved signage. A space is reserved for Wheel-Trans vehicles.

Main Street Station was opened in 1968. The station was built on the site of the former Main Loop, which was the eastern terminus of the Carlton streetcar line. This loop closed in 1966 for construction of the subway station.

Unlike most TTC stations, its name includes the word "Street" in order to avoid the possible misreading that it is the subway's "main" station. It is named after Main Street, which was the main street of the suburban town of East Toronto, which was amalgamated into Toronto in 1908.

The station was built with its turnstiles and collector booths on the mezzanine level between the bus and streetcar terminal and the subway platforms. This may have been because until 1973 it was near a fare zone boundary and there was an intention to bring buses from both fare zones into the terminal, as was done at Jane Station; however, this 1968 map shows the boundary to one side of the station. The booths and turnstiles were later moved to just inside the street entrance, bringing the buses and streetcars inside the station's fare-paid area.

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