Rosedale (TTC)

Rosedale
Station statistics
Address	7 Crescent Road Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43°40′37″N 79°23′20″W / 43.67694°N 79.38889°W / 43.67694; -79.38889Coordinates: 43°40′37″N 79°23′20″W / 43.67694°N 79.38889°W / 43.67694; -79.38889
Structure type	open cut
Platforms	side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	30 March 1954
Architect	John B. Parkin
Presto card	No
Formerly	Crescent
Traffic
Passengers (2011-12[1])	8,060
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Bloor toward Downsview Yonge–University–Spadina Summerhill toward Finch

Rosedale is a subway station on the Yonge–University–Spadina line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the east side of Yonge Street at Crescent Road.

Despite its proximity to downtown Toronto, it is one of the lesser used stations in the subway system, averaging only 8,060 riders daily in 2011-12^[2]. This reflects the fact that no high volume surface bus routes connect to the station and the affluent Rosedale neighbourhood has a lower population density and lacks major destinations.

Architecture

Platform canopies and unique tiled walls in the open-air station

This open-air station^[3] has separate canopies over the two platforms. Two pedestrian bridges allow access to the northbound platform on the east side, one from the main entance off Crescent Road and the other from the bus platforms on the west side of the station

The station, designed by John B. Parkin in 1947 and opened in 1954, was designated as a heritage property, under PART IV of the Ontario Heritage Act by City of Toronto By-law 440-90, passed 13 August 1990.^[4]

Despite the station's historic designation the original large green-blue Vitrolite panels and black trim on the platform walls were replaced by small square dark green tiles in a unique criss-cross pattern with yellow lettering and no trim.^[5]

Subway infrastructure in the vicinity

Tracks in open cut north of the station

After leaving Bloor station northbound, the Yonge–University–Spadina line crosses under Church Street in a tunnel and emerges to the surface at the Ellis Portal, running in a cutting through Rosedale station. Originally the line continued north in open cut all the way to the Price Portal, where the tunnel resumed, but a one-block section from Rowanwood Drive to Price was roofed over in 2002 for parking.^[6]

Budd Sugarman Park

Budd Sugarman Park
Location	955 Yonge Street
Coordinates	43°40′33″N 79°23′20″W / 43.67583°N 79.38889°W / 43.67583; -79.38889
Website	Park

The southwesterly portion of the property, which is surplus to the needs of the TTC for use as part of the subway or bus station, has been developed as a public park. The park is named in honour of the civic activist Budd Sugarman, who died in 2004.^[7] In 2008 the City of Toronto, Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division proposed an expansion of the park along Yonge Street and a reconfiguration of the bus loop. This was rejected by the TTC on the grounds that it would negatively affect passengers and bus operations, while providing no transit benefits, and eliminate any potential long term development of the site, which is contrary to a stated policy of encouraging development at subway stations.^[8]

Nearby landmarks

Nearby landmarks include Ramsden Park and the Studio Building.

Surface connections

• 82 Rosedale - loops within the station
• 97 Yonge - a transfer is required for boarding on Yonge Street

References

External links

Media related to Rosedale Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Rosedale Station at the Toronto Transit Commission
• TTC Subway at Rosedale Station - 1954. on YouTube A southbound TTC subway train of Gloucester cars approaches and departs from Rosedale Station in 1954. The train was travelling from Eglinton Station to terminate at Union Station on the newly built Yonge Line. You can also see the original Vitrolite glass tiles on the platform walls.

v t e Stations of the Toronto Transit Commission 1 Yonge–University–Spadina Finch North York Centre Sheppard–Yonge ■ York Mills Lawrence Eglinton Davisville St. Clair ■ Summerhill Rosedale Bloor-Yonge ■ Wellesley College Dundas Queen King Union ■ St. Andrew Osgoode St. Patrick Queen's Park Museum St. George ■ Spadina ■ ■ Dupont St. Clair West ■ Eglinton West Glencairn Lawrence West Yorkdale Wilson Downsview (Sheppard West) Downsview Park Finch West York University Pioneer Village Highway 407 Vaughan Metropolitan Centre 2 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 ■ 3 Scarborough RT Kennedy ■ Lawrence East Ellesmere Midland Scarborough Centre McCowan 4 Sheppard Sheppard–Yonge ■ Bayview Bessarion Leslie Don Mills Streetcar system Queens Quay Exhibition Loop Legend: - wheelchair-accessible | washroom | ■ - connection | proposed station