St. George (TTC)

St. George
Location	139 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43°40′05″N 79°23′59″W / 43.66806°N 79.39972°W / 43.66806; -79.39972Coordinates: 43°40′05″N 79°23′59″W / 43.66806°N 79.39972°W / 43.66806; -79.39972
Platforms	2 centre platforms (1 on each line)
Tracks	4 (2 per line)
Connections	TTC buses  26  Dupont  300   Bloor - Danforth
Construction
Structure type	underground
Platform levels	2
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	28 February 1963 (YU line) 26 February 1966 (BD line)
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	136,200 (YU line) 128,980 (BD line) 265,180 Total Ranked 2nd of 69
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Spadina toward Sheppard West Yonge–University Museum toward Finch Spadina toward Kipling Bloor–Danforth Bay toward Kennedy

St. George is a station on the Yonge-University and Bloor-Danforth lines in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located north of Bloor Street West between St. George Street and Bedford Road. This is the second-busiest station, after Bloor-Yonge Station, serving a combined total of approximately 265,180 people a day. Wi-fi service is available at this station.

The station was first opened on February 28, 1963 for the University section of the Yonge-University line, followed by the Bloor-Danforth line on February 26, 1966, and finally on January 28, 1978 for the Spadina section of the former line.

Between 1963 and 1966, there was a direct surface connection at the Bedford Road subway entrance to Bloor and Danforth streetcars. The Bedford Loop was immediately south of the station structure and had opened in 1954 to provide a short turn facility for westbound streetcars serving Bloor station on the new Yonge Subway. Streetcars entered from Bedford Road, turned west into the loop beside the station, and exited south on to Bloor Street. The platform was on the east side of what is now the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, with a TTC transformer station constructed at the former entrance and the exit where the Bloor - Bedford Parkette is situated. This loop gave passengers travelling in peak hours a more direct connection between the subway and eastbound and westbound streetcars than walking to/from the curbside stops. The loop closed in February 1966 when streetcar routes were replaced by the Bloor-Danforth Subway.

In 1999, this station became accessible with elevators.

Bay and St. George stations each have four parallel tracks, two above two. Between these stations and Museum is a full double-track, grade-separated wye junction. The tracks to and from Museum connect to the upper St. George and Lower Bay stations, while the tracks along Bloor use lower St. George and upper Bay. From February to September 1966 all three sides of the wye were used in regular service: from each of three terminals — Eglinton, Keele, and Woodbine — trains ran alternately to the other two (between Eglinton and Museum they went via Union).

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