Lansdowne is a subway station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth of the Toronto subway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The main station entrance is located just north of Bloor Street on Lansdowne Avenue, with a secondary unstaffed entrance on Emerson Avenue. Opened in 1966, the station lies approximately 561 metres (1,842 feet) from its nearest station to the west, Dundas West.[2] The station is in the Dovercourt-Wallace Emerson-Junction neighbourhood on the edge of the Bloordale Village strip. Wi-Fi service is available at this station.[3]
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| Location | 691 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto, Ontario Canada | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°39′33″N 79°26′34″W / 43.65917°N 79.44278°W | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Website | Official station page | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 26 February 1966 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2019–2022 | ||||||||||
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| 2022[1] | 19,541 | ||||||||||
| Rank | 42 of 70 | ||||||||||
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Construction started in June 2019 to install three elevators to make Lansdowne station accessible. One elevator was planned to connect the street level to the station concourse. Two other elevators were planned to connect the concourse to the east- and westbound platforms. In December 2022, the project was completed as planned and the station became accessible. As part of the project, the station received public art.[4]
Under a GO Transit proposal for Regional Express Rail, a new station on their Barrie line (tentatively called Bloor–Lansdowne) would be built 200 metres (660 ft) west of this station and offer connections between the services.[5]
Surface connections
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Transfers to buses occur at curbside stops on Lansdowne Avenue at this station.
TTC routes serving the station include:
| Route | Name | Additional information |
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| 47A/B/C | Lansdowne | Southbound to Queen Street West |
| 47A | Northbound to St. Clair Avenue | |
| 47B | Northbound to Yorkdale station via Caledonia Road and Bridgeland Avenue | |
| 47C | Northbound to Yorkdale Station via Caledonia Road and Orfus Road (Rush hour service) | |
| 402 | Parkdale | Community bus |
References
edit- ^ "Subway ridership, 2022" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
This table shows the typical number of customer-trips made on each subway on an average weekday and the typical number of customers travelling to and from each station platform on an average weekday.
- ^ "Transit Toronto – Content: A History of Subways on Bloor and Queen Streets". Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2007.
- ^ "There's now free WiFi at over 40 TTC subway stations". blogTO. Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
- ^ "Easier Access – Lansdowne Station". Toronto Transit Commission. Archived from the original on 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
- ^ Spurr, Ben (21 June 2016). "Locations of four new Toronto GO stations announced". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 22 June 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
External links
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Media related to Lansdowne Station at Wikimedia Commons