McCowan (TTC)

McCowan is a oberdirdische subway station in Toronto. It is the eastern terminus of the Scarborough RT and is located at the intersection of McCowan Road and Bushby Drive. The station has side platforms, is used daily by an average of 4630 passengers (2009 /10), making it one of the least frequented of Subwaynetzes.

The low utilization is due to the fact that the nearby station Scarborough Centre is conceived as a public transport hub and thus attracts much more traffic. The route in this area on a viaduct, reduces to the east of the station at ground level and ends in the walk-in storage and maintenance facility McCowan Yard. General inspections are not conducted there; the trains are transported in this case due to the track gauge by truck to the main operating Workshop Greenwood Yard.

The opening of the station on 24 March 1985 along with the entire Scarborough RT between Kennedy and McGowan. In a second step, the traveling of linear motor trains route in the district of Malvern should be extended, for which a corridor along a disused railway line stood ready. The project was finally laid in 1995 on the file. As part of the road project Transit City Scarbough the RT will now be converted into a rail and extended.