Lansdowne station (Toronto)
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691 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto, Ontario Canada | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 43°39′33″N 79°26′34″W / 43.65917°N 79.44278°WCoordinates: 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 | ||||||||||
Disabled access | No | ||||||||||
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Opened | 26 February 1966 | ||||||||||
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Passengers (2016[1]) | 17,590 | ||||||||||
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Lansdowne is a subway station on the Bloor–Danforth line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The main station entrance is located just north of Bloor Street on Lansdowne Avenue, with a secondary automated entrance on Emerson Avenue (entry here is with a physical TTC Metropass or Presto card only). 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]
Under a GO Transit proposal for Regional Express Rail, a new station on their Barrie line would be built 200m west of this station and offer connections between the services.[4]
Surface connections
A paper transfer is required to connect between the subway and buses, which use a curbside stops on either side of 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) |
References
- ↑ "Subway ridership, 2016" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
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
- ↑ "There's now free WiFi at over 40 TTC subway stations". blogTO. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
- ↑ Spurr, Ben (June 21, 2016). "Locations of four new Toronto GO stations announced". Toronto Star. Retrieved 21 June 2016.