Canal Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)

Canal Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address Canal Street & Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10013
Borough Manhattan
Locale TriBeCa
Division B (IND)
Line IND Eighth Avenue Line
Services       A  (all times)
      C  (all except late nights)
      E  (all times)
Connection
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange
Tracks 4
Other information
Opened September 10, 1932; 79 years ago (September 10, 1932)[1]
Former/other names Canal Street – Holland Tunnel
Traffic
Passengers (2010) 5,351,984[2]  0.4%
Rank 78 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Spring Street (local): A  C  E 
West Fourth Street – Washington Square (express): A 
Next south World Trade Center (local): E 
Chambers Street (express): A  C 

Canal Street (formerly Canal Street – Holland Tunnel) is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, it is served by the A and E trains at all times, and the C train at all times except late nights.

There are four tracks and two island platforms, which are each approximately 600 feet (180 m) long. There are two diamond crossovers allowing express trains to cross to the local track or local trains to cross to the express track. One is located to the south of the station for downtown (southbound) trains and the other is located to the north of the station for uptown (northbound) trains. The platforms are offset, and a signal tower is located at the south end of the southbound platform.

South of this station, the tracks split into two levels and cross not at grade. These partly allow the future junction for a proposed line under Worth Street, as part of the IND Second System. The proposed route would have run under Worth Street and East Broadway, and crossed the East River to Brooklyn. The bellmouths for this proposed route are visible from the E train headed towards and coming from the World Trade Center station.[3] On the tunnel wall where the turnout is, there is an arrow painted with the words reading: "Worth St." written next to it.

References

  1. ^ New York Times, List of the 28 Stations on the New Eighth Ave Line, September 10, 1932, page 6
  2. ^ "Facts and Figures: 2010 Annual Subway Ridership". New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority. http://mta.info/nyct/facts/ridership/ridership_sub_annual.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-18. 
  3. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8NAOtBXKhA A bellmouth is visible to the left, at the 4:12 mark into this video, just before the train enters the World Trade Center station.

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