Yorkdale (TTC)
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Yorkdale
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| Location | Yorkdale Road at Yorkdale Service Road, Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Toronto, Ontario Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°43′29″N 79°26′51″W / 43.72472°N 79.44750°WCoordinates: 43°43′29″N 79°26′51″W / 43.72472°N 79.44750°W | ||||||||||
| Platforms | centre platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections |
 Yorkdale Bus Terminal
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| Structure type | at grade | ||||||||||
| Parking | 1010 spaces, reopened February 2017 | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | No | ||||||||||
| Architect | Arthur Erickson | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 28 January 1978 | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2015) | 19,150 | ||||||||||
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Yorkdale is a station on the Yonge–University line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the median of the William R. Allen Road just south of Highway 401. Opened in 1978, it is named after the nearby Yorkdale Shopping Centre to which it connects by an enclosed walkway.
Connections to GO Transit commuter and Greyhound intercity buses are available at Yorkdale Bus Terminal, immediately west of the station.
Yorkdale was designed by Arthur Erickson. The station is above ground, and also above street level. It has two tracks: northbound and southbound, and has a centre platform. A dramatic vaulted glass roof spans the length of the single centre platform. It terminates symmetrically at escalators and stairs at both ends of the platform, creating the appearance of a glass dome. The interior walls of the station at platform level are unfinished concrete, but artistically cast, and curve over the tracks to form the ceiling. The shape of the windows on these walls recalls the oval windows of subway trains. On the exterior, these concrete walls are clad with stainless steel.
Handrails on stairs leading to the platform are backlit. Platform shelters are unique to the station, designed in the oval shape which dominates many features in the station, with large windows. Like the centre pillars which hold X-shaped structural supports—distinctive in Toronto's rapid transit system to the station—they are clad in unpainted metal panels.
Yorkdale station won a Governor General's Award for Architecture in 1982, and is listed as a heritage structure in Toronto's inventory of heritage properties.
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