Dundas West (TTC)
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| Dundas West 1525 Bloor Street West |
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| Opened | February 25, 1966 |
| District | Old Toronto |
| Line | Bloor-Danforth line |
| Next station | ≅0.7 km west to Keele 1 min
≅0.8 km east to Lansdowne 1 min |
| Daytime Connections | 40 Junction, 168 Symington, 193 Exhibition Rocket (Seasonal), 504 King, 505 Dundas |
| Night Connections | 300 Bloor-Danforth, 306 Carlton, 313 Jane |
| GO Transit Connections | Bloor GO Station |
| Daily Boardings | 24,530 |
| Rank 2007-08 | 33rd busiest out of 69 |
| Platforms | Side platforms |
| Accessibility | 2 elevators
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Dundas West is a station on the Bloor-Danforth subway line in Toronto, Canada. Opened in 1966, it was then the second most western station on the Bloor-Danforth Line until the line was extended beyond Keele to Islington. It now ranks as the 29th busiest station in the system. Its postal address is 1525 Bloor Street West; the main entrance, however, is on Dundas Street, at the corner of Edna Avenue. The station is about 200 meters west of the Bloor GO Station on GO Transit's Georgetown line.
In 2002, as part of a scheduled reconstruction of the streetcar tracks on Dundas Street, a second streetcar bay was added to the station in an effort to improve reliability on both the 504 King and 505 Dundas streetcar routes. Until the completion of the second bay, a streetcar waiting in the station on either route could hold up vehicles on the other.
To the east of the station, the subway runs in a bored tunnel until just before the next station (Lansdowne). This allowed the tracks to pass underneath nearby railway lines without disturbing them during construction. If the tunnels had not been bored underneath the railway lines, the subway would have had to travel above them via an elevated structure or by direct underpass, as the railways are all at grade level. To the west, the tracks follow a short "cut and cover" tunnel before emerging outside. Trains run in open-air until they enter Keele Station.
South of the subway platforms, underground, are the four tunnels that comprise the Vincent Subway Yard. This station is also home to the Subway Track Maintenance Office, located on the Mezzanine level.
A McDonald's restaurant serves the station, with access from both the fare-paid and non-fare-paid areas of the station's upper level. There is a Gateway Newsstand on the Mezzanine level.
