Spadina (TTC)

Spadina is an underground subway station in Toronto, at the intersection of Bloor Street and Spadina Road. Here the Yonge- University - Spadina line and the Bloor- Danforth line of the Toronto Subway intersect. The station is used daily by an average of 48,350 passengers (2009 /10) ..

Architecture

The station consists of two separate sections with side platforms on the same level, but about 150 meters apart. The extending in a north-south direction of platforms on the Yonge- University - Spadina Line should initially form a separate station named Lowther, but the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC ) decided to build a walkway. This had to be removed in 2004, as a new building would have been too costly. As a transfer station Spadina is frequented relatively low. The passengers prefer the neighboring station of St. George, where the platforms of both lines lie directly above one another. Near the platforms of the Bloor- Danforth line is the underground terminus of tram line 510

Stylistically reaches the architecture of the station from simple, modernist design on the platforms of the Bloor- Danforth Line on indirectly lit tiles with ornate tiles on the platforms of the Yonge- University - Spadina line up to the post-modern tram tunnel. At three points, the station was designed artistically. Morning Glory by Louise de Ville Never at the output Kendal Avenue is a surreal e-mail mural. Barren Ground Caribou by Joyce Wieland represents a massive quilt, on a caribou herd is to be seen in a tundra landscape. The artists Fedelia O'Brien, Murphy Green and Chuck awareness of the Gitxsan Indians in British Columbia contributed large Owl, Wolf and Falk sculptures from cedar.

History

The opening of the station took place on 26 February 1966 in conjunction with the section Keele - Woodbine Bloor Danforth Line. Plans to extend the Yonge- University line via St. George addition to the northwest, it was the first time in the 1960s. This section would have been in the middle strip of the city highway Spadina Expressway to be built that would be advanced to the city center to Bloor Street. Protests by local residents prompted the provincial government to drop the motorway and to build the underground in a tunnel. Finally, it was opened on 28 January 1978, the leader of St. George on Spadina to Wilson Spadina Subway. Thus, the Yonge- University - Spadina Line was born. The mid-1990s allowed the TTC to build the three decades earlier disused tram line along the Spadina Avenue again. To route the traffic to the metro station Spadina, the northern terminus, was an underground turning loop. This was opened on 27 July 1997.