Scarborough Centre (TTC)

Scarborough Centre is a oberdirdische subway station in Toronto. It lies on the Scarborough RT, the Toronto Subway, north of Ellesmere Road at the south entrance of the shopping center to Scarborough Town Centre. The station has side platforms, is used daily by an average of 26,220 passengers (2009 /10).

Station

Nearby is also the Scarborough Civic Centre are (Town Hall of the former city of Scarborough ) and the Canada Centre, an administrative center of the Federal Government. The route in this area on a viaduct, so that the station has three levels. Available for sale to the platforms of the Scarborough RT, in the middle are a distribution level with access to the shopping center and the bottom of the bus terminal of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC ), where 13 buses have their terminus. Immediately east of it, the Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal is from where suburban lines run by GO Transit and intercity buses from Can -ar, Greyhound and Coach Canada.

History

The opening of the station on 24 March 1985 along with the entire Scarborough RT between Kennedy and McCowan. Three years earlier, there was the first time plans for the Sheppard line, with the two outer branches of the Yonge- University - Spadina line should connect at Sheppard - Yonge and Downsview in its final Scarborough Centre. After over a decade of political clashes in 1995, the plans for the largest part of the route were discontinued. Published in 2003, the TTC is a report, which ranks an extension of the Sheppard Line of Don Mills to Scarborough Centre as the highest priority, because the track could just as fully effective. But even this plan was shelved.

As part of the road project Transit City who served with linear motor trains Scarborough RT is converted to a tram and be extended beyond McCowan addition.