Dupont (TTC)

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Dupont 278 Dupont Street
Opened	January 28, 1978
Line	Yonge-University-Spadina line
Next station	≅1.2 km northwest to St. Clair West 2 min ≅0.6 km south to Spadina 1 min
Connections	26 Dupont, 127 Davenport
Rank of Subway Boardings [1]	50th busiest out of 69
Daily Boardings	13,550
No. of Elevators	0
Platforms	Side platforms

Spadina Summer Under All Seasons

Dupont is a station on the Yonge-University-Spadina line of the subway/RT system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Spadina Road at 278 Dupont Street. It opened in 1978. Nearby landmarks include Casa Loma, George Brown College, and the Toronto Archives. The Russell Hill Subway accident happened just north of the station on the southbound line in 1995.

On June 1, 2006, a mechanical failure, allegedly, caused by a metal inspection cover in the bottom of a train inside the station dislodged, and wedged in the third rail, at 9:30 local time, filling the station with smoke, and forcing the evacuation of the station. The section between St. Clair West and St. George Stations was closed for approximatelly one hour, forcing the use of shuttle buses between that section. Some considered the accident as sabotage by TTC personnel, as TTC workers went on a wildcat strike on Monday, May 29, although this possibility was discarded by the Toronto Police.

The central cavern of the station features a tilework mural by James Sutherland entitled Spadina Summer Under All Seasons.

[edit] Surface connections

26 Dupont
127 Davenport

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Bloor-Danforth	Kipling \| Islington \| Royal York \| Old Mill \| Jane \| Runnymede \| High Park \| Keele \| Dundas West \| Lansdowne \| Dufferin \| Ossington \| Christie \| Bathurst \| Spadina ■ \| St. George ■ \| Bay \| Bloor-Yonge ■ \| Sherbourne \| Castle Frank \| Broadview \| Chester \| Pape \| Donlands \| Greenwood \| Coxwell \| Woodbine \| Main Street \| Victoria Park \| Warden \| Kennedy ■
Scarborough RT	Kennedy ■ \| Lawrence East \| Ellesmere \| Midland \| Scarborough Centre \| McCowan
Sheppard	Sheppard-Yonge ■ \| Bayview \| Bessarion \| Leslie \| Don Mills
Other	Queen's Quay-Ferry Docks
Legend: - wheelchair-accessible station (as of February 2007) \| ■ - connection \| proposed station