Kennedy station

Kennedy
Pedestrian entrance on the south service road of Eglinton Avenue
Location	2455 Eglinton Avenue East Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43°43′57″N 79°15′49″W / 43.73250°N 79.26361°W / 43.73250; -79.26361Coordinates: 43°43′57″N 79°15′49″W / 43.73250°N 79.26361°W / 43.73250; -79.26361
Platforms	1 centre platform (on Line 2) 2 side platforms (on Line 3)
Tracks	3 (2 on Line 2 and 1 for Line 3)
Connections	TTC buses  12  Kingston Rd  20  Cliffside  21  Brimley  34  Eglinton East  43  Kennedy  57  Midland  86  Scarborough  113  Danforth  116  Morningside  131E  Nugget Express  198  U of T Scarborough Rocket  300   Bloor - Danforth  334   Eglinton East  343   Kennedy Kennedy GO Station
Construction
Structure type	underground (Line 2) elevated (Line 3)
Platform levels	4
Parking	1,135 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	November 21, 1980 (1980-11-21) (Line 2) March 22, 1985 (1985-03-22) (Line 3)
Traffic
Passengers (2015[1])	69,790 (Line 2) 35,790 (Line 3) 105,580 (Total)
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Warden toward Kipling Bloor–Danforth Terminus Terminus Scarborough Lawrence East toward McCowan Ionview toward Mount Dennis Eglinton Opens 2021 Terminus

Kennedy is both a terminal and interchange station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth and Line 3 Scarborough of the Toronto subway system. Opened in 1980, it is located east of the Kennedy Road and Eglinton Avenue intersection.^[2] With the adjacent Kennedy GO station on the Stouffville line of GO Transit, Kennedy is an intermodal transit hub and the fifth busiest station in the system, after St. George, Bloor-Yonge, Sheppard-Yonge, and Union, serving a total of approximately 105,580 customer trips a day.

The station's main complex consists of four floors with wheelchair accessible entrances. The ground level is the bus terminal surrounded with ten platforms that serve eleven Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus routes. Wi-Fi service is available at this station. ^[3]

The station is to be overhauled and expanded over the next decade as Line 3 will be decommissioned once the extension of Line 2 to Scarborough City Centre has been completed. The future light rail line, Line 5 Eglinton, will terminate at the station when its first phase opens in 2020.^[4] The city's proposed commuter rail line is also planned to connect at Kennedy.

Station features

SRT leaving the station, showing the sharp curve that would complicate replacing the SRT with heavy rail.

The station is located south of Eglinton Avenue, east of Kennedy Road. The station complex consists of four levels. The S-series trains of Line 3 Scarborough ascend via a bridge to the platform located at the top level of the station complex. The ground floor (third floor) consists of ten bus platforms surrounding the main building. Four satellite pedestrian entrances to the station can be found at the South Parking Lot, next to the Don Montgomery Community Centre, at the service road of Eglinton Avenue, and the passenger pick-up and drop-off roundabout on Transway Crescent. Below the ground level is the concourse that spans the length of the station, connecting to all pedestrian entrances. Below the concourse is the platform for subway trains on the Line 2 Bloor–Danforth.

Although Line 3 trains are bidirectionally-operated metro trains, the tracks for Line 3 extends beyond the top floor platform into an above-ground turning loop, similar to those found on the Toronto streetcar system. This was because Line 3 had been planned as a dedicated right-of-way streetcar line, rather than a metro line. As such, the top-floor platform was designed to operate streetcars. Line 3 was later built as a medium-capacity rail transport line to use the Intermediate Capacity Transit System train models built by Bombardier Transportation. The line began using two-car trains, which were able to travel along the turning loop, but was later converted to use four-car trains, which could not be operated along the tight loop. Thus, the use of the loop was discontinued after 1988, although the loop's bridge structure remains over the passenger pick-up and drop-off building. The station platform was reduced to a single track and began using the Spanish solution of unloading and boarding passengers at Kennedy. Original floor finishing and platform edge markings for the planned light rail can also be seen along the current tracks.

Original design was to have SRT trains loop at the west end of the station, but the single track now provides access to the trains from platforms on both sides

Four park and ride lots, that have a combined total of 1135 spaces, are located around the station.

Bus terminal

Bus platform level of the station

There are 10 platforms for its 11 routes at the station. The most recent realignment occurred on December 8, 2014.^[5]

References

External links

Media related to Kennedy Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Kennedy Station at the Toronto Transit Commission