Summerhill station
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| Location | 16 Shaftesbury Avenue Toronto, Ontario Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°40′56″N 79°23′27″W / 43.68222°N 79.39083°WCoordinates: 43°40′56″N 79°23′27″W / 43.68222°N 79.39083°W | ||||||||||
| Platforms | side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | underground | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | No | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 30 March 1954 | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2015) | 5,780 | ||||||||||
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Summerhill is a subway station on the Yonge–University line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Shaftesbury Avenue just east of Yonge Street, with the entrance being at the north end of the train platforms. The station opened in 1954 as part of the original Yonge line. Wi-Fi service is available at this station.
Like Rosedale Station, the next station to the south, it is currently among the less used stations, with only 5,780 average weekday ridership. This is mainly due to having no surface transit connections except the parallel Yonge Street bus and no major local destinations. The station has to rely entirely on the immediate Summerhill residential neighbourhood for passengers.
Although the station is rated as high priority in the requirement for a second exit, no work has yet been done to provide additional access at the south end of the station.
The tunnel originally ended immediately north of the station at Summerhill Avenue and continued in open cut as far as Pleasant Boulevard, just before St. Clair, the next station. Various sections of this open cut were roofed over as the years passed, and since the early 1980s it has been entirely under cover, except when one block was opened to allow new construction above it. Passengers who look out from the train into the tunnel on this section can still see the sloping sides of the original cut, the stumps of lamp posts and trees, and the undersides of four bridges which still carry side streets over the line.
South of the station, the tunnel emerges to the surface at Rowanwood Drive. Originally the line surfaced at Price Portal, but a one-block section from Rowanwood Drive to Price Street was roofed over in 2002 for parking.
All connecting bus routes require a transfer and can be boarded at curbside stops.
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