Bloor-Yonge (TTC)

Bloor- Yonge is an underground subway station in Toronto, at the intersection of Bloor Street and Yonge Street. Here the Bloor- Danforth line and the Yonge- University - Spadina line of the Toronto Subway intersect. The station is used daily by an average of 403 530 passengers (2009 /10), making it the busiest of the entire network. In the vicinity are the Toronto Reference Library and the Hudson 's Bay Centre.

History

The opening of the station on 30 March 1954 together with the portion Union - Eglinton Yonge Subway, the first subway on Canadian soil. Equipped with side platforms station was first called Bloor and offered a transition to the tram lines on Bloor Street. On February 26, 1966, the opening of the Bloor- Danforth Line followed, bringing the Bloor- Yonge station renamed in one of the main transport hubs of the city was. The lower, newer part has a central platform.

Because of the strain the Toronto Transit Commission was early interested to expand the station. 1992 she moved to construction work on the surface to the occasion, the used by the Yonge- University - Spadina Line miteinzubeziehn part in the excavation and to broaden the side platforms. It was planned in a second step, the installation of a central station platform, so that the passengers would have the trains from two sides can reach ( Spanish solution ). The TTC refrained because it would have caused a month-long closure of the station. The broadening of the station part of the Bloor- Danforth line was omitted for similar reasons.