Sheppard–Yonge (TTC)

Sheppard - Yonge is an underground subway station in Toronto, at the intersection of Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue. Here the Yonge- University - Spadina line and the Sheppard line of the Toronto Subway intersect. The station is used daily by an average of 123,480 passengers (2009 /10), making it the third most frequented of the entire network behind Bloor- Yonge and St. George. It offers connecting flights to five bus routes.

Station

The station comprises two track planes are arranged crosswise. In the upper level of the traits of the Sheppard Line operate out of two side platforms. However, there is also a finished shell in the middle platform. If the importance of the station as a transport hub to increase further, this platform could be used for the purposes of a Spanish solution. Getting in and out would thus be possible from both sides of the train. The trains currently use mostly the southern side of the platform, the northern is only used by trains that are subsequently decommissioned. In the lower part of the station, the Yonge- University - Spadina Line stops at a central platform.

Do trains or trolleys are exchanged between the two lines, so they traveled from the south coming a link, the 500 meters west of the station under the Sheppard Avenue leads to a point. There also is enough space to park trains operating times. A significantly shorter link meets Coming from the north, just east of the station on the Sheppard Line.

The upper platform level is decorated with artwork by Stacey Spiegel called immersion country. This is a mural whose tiny mosaic tiles each consisting of many small images panoramic digital photos. Viewed from afar is the work of art a rural scenery between Lake Ontario and North Bay dar. The more one approaches the image, the more blurred it acts. Symbolizes will allow the gradual urbanization of the once pristine area.

History

The opening of the station on 30 March 1974 together with the section of York Mills - Finch. It was originally planned to take the entire section of Eglinton after Finch a year earlier in operation, but made ​​prolonged strikes a careful stage planning necessary. The station name was initially Sheppard. After more than 15 years delay the end of 1998, work began on the Sheppard Line. The section to Don Mills was put into operation on 24 November 2002. The station was on the same day the new name Sheppard - Yonge. When completed the route in the west should lead up to Downsview and east to the center of Scarborough, the further construction was omitted but for financial reasons.