| Dundas West TTC Subway Station |
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| Address | 1525 Bloor Street West | ||||||||||
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 25 February 1966 | ||||||||||
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| Presto card | No | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2009-10) | 26,500 | ||||||||||
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Dundas West is a station on the Bloor–Danforth line in Toronto, Canada. 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.
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 Newstand on the mezzanine level.
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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 at the Dorval Portal. 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.
Nearby landmarks include The Crossways residential and retail complex, Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School, The Lithuanian House banquet hall, Roncesvalles and The Junction neighbourhoods.
Opened in 1966, Dundas West was then the second most western station on the Bloor-Danforth Line until the line was extended beyond Keele to Islington.
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.
Adjacent Bloor GO Station will be a stop on the new Air Rail Link running from Union Station to Toronto Pearson International Airport. It is being designed and built by Metrolinx in time for the 2015 Pan American Games. The agency will also own and operate the line.[1]
To support this, a direct connection will be made between the stations by way of a new tunnel and upgraded lighting.[2]