St. Clair West (TTC)
St. Clair West is an underground subway station in Toronto. It lies on the Yonge- University - Spadina line of the Toronto Subway, at the St. Clair Avenue between Bathurst Street and Tweedsmuir Avenue. The station is used daily by an average of 26,680 passengers (2009 /10). In the vicinity are the Casa Loma and Spadina House.
Station
The station is at the upper end of the gorge Nordheimer Ravine. Immediately above is the sports ground of a private school. While the northern entrance leads directly to the St. Clair Avenue, the south entrance is integrated in a supermarket. It offers connecting flights to three bus lines and tram line 512, which runs underground in the station area.
St. Clair is next to Wilson one of two stations on the Spadina Line, which was designed by the company's own architects of the Toronto Transit Commission. It is presented colorful and has a wide range of artistic details, such as ceramic tiles and sculptural edited concrete surfaces. Backlit orange panels and an abstract tile pattern, reminiscent of a bar code, distinguish these from other station. The abstract E- mural Tempo by Gordon Rayner adorns the distribution level.
History
At this point, the metro station was originally intended to be in the middle strip of the planned urban motorway Spadina Expressway, the Ravine by the Nordheimer should run. After protests from local residents, the provincial government decided in 1971, south of the former city limits ( near the station Eglinton West) to promote only the construction of the subway and not as planned to complete the expressway to the city center. The elimination of the urban motorway meant that the Subwaystrecke was built in a tunnel. The opening of the section between St. George and Wilson took place on 28 January 1978.
The tram opened in 1913 along the St. Clair Avenue crossing in the area of today's subway station, the Nordheimer Ravine by a bridge. In order to create better Umsteigebedingungen, the city of Toronto was laid the track over a length of about 200 meters into a tunnel, which was opened along with an underground terminal loop on the same day as the Subway.