Kennedy station
Template:Short description Template:For Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox station Kennedy is a Toronto subway station system that is the eastern terminus of Line 2 Bloor–Danforth. Opened in 1980, it is located east of the Kennedy Road and Eglinton Avenue intersection.<ref name=ttc>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> With the adjacent Kennedy GO station on the Stouffville line of GO Transit, Kennedy is an intermodal transit hub and the fifth busiest station in the system, after Template:Stl, Template:Stl, Template:Stl, and Template:Stl, serving a total of approximately Template:TTC ridership customer trips a day.
It was built as part of the extensions west to Kipling and east to this station. The station's main complex has four floors with wheelchair accessible entrances. The ground level is the bus terminal surrounded by ten platforms that serve 16 Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus routes. Wi-Fi service is available at this station.<ref name="TTC station page">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Kennedy station was previously the southern terminus of Line 3 Scarborough before it was permanently closed on July 24, 2023. The line was opened in 1985. The station's bus terminal is being expanded to handle replacement buses.<ref name="Line 3 future">The future of TTC’s Line 3 Scarborough (SRT)</ref>
Construction to expand the station began in 2017 to add a platform for the future Line 5 Eglinton, which will terminate at the station when its first phase opens.<ref name="o2022">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Station complex
The station is located south of Eglinton Avenue, east of Kennedy Road. The station complex consists of four levels. Trains of the former Line 3 Scarborough previously ascended via a bridge to the platform located at the top level of the station complex. The ground floor (third floor, but labelled 2 in the elevator) consists of ten bus platforms surrounding the main building. Three satellite pedestrian entrances to the station can be found at the South Parking Lot, next to the Don Montgomery Community Centre, and the passenger pick-up and drop-off roundabout on Transway Crescent. (A fourth entrance, at the service road of Eglinton Avenue, was demolished in 2018 and no longer exists.) Below the ground level is the concourse that spans the length of the station, connecting to all pedestrian entrances. Below the concourse is the platform for subway trains on the Line 2 Bloor–Danforth.
Four park and ride lots, that had a combined total of 729 spaces, used to be located around the station.<ref name="TTC station page (2022)">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As of August 21, 2023, these lots no longer exist.<ref name="TTC (2023b)">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth was opened on February 25, 1966, and was extended westwards to Warden station on May 10, 1968, and to Kennedy station on November 21, 1980.<ref name="TTC-2013-Stats">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
An extension of Line 2, called the Scarborough Subway Extension, is under construction that will make Kennedy a through-station. From Kennedy station, the three-stop, Template:Convert extension will travel east under Eglinton Avenue, then north under Danforth Road and McCowan Road to terminate at Sheppard Avenue.<ref name="Metrolinx-SSE">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Line 5 Eglinton
Kennedy was expanded to become the eastern terminus of Line 5 Eglinton. The Line 5 station is underground, south of Eglinton Avenue East, and about Template:Convert north of the Line 2 platforms.<ref name="TTC-2018-03-20" />
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The main entrance to Kennedy station at the southwest corner of West Service Road and Transway Crescent was demolished and has been replaced by a new entrance to access the Line 5 concourse located one level above the Line 5 platforms. Two elevators connect the Line 5 concourse to the Line 5 platform. Two north–south passages connect the Line 5 concourse to the existing Line 2 concourse. There were few changes to the Line 2 concourse. A secondary entrance on the east side of the existing GO rail corridor serves as the main entrance to the GO station.<ref name=TTC-2018-03-20>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Line 3 Scarborough
In 1985, Kennedy station was expanded to serve Line 3 Scarborough, an elevated light metro line with six stations. In 2023, Line 3 was decommissioned and is planned to be replaced by a Line 2 extension to Scarborough City Centre.
Although Line 3 trains had bidirectionally operated metro trains, the tracks for Line 3 extended beyond the top-floor platform into an above-ground turning loop, similar to those found on the Toronto streetcar system. This was because Line 3 had been planned as a dedicated right-of-way streetcar line rather than a metro line. As such, the top-floor platform was designed to operate streetcars. Line 3 was later built as a medium-capacity rail transport line to use the Intermediate Capacity Transit System train models built by Bombardier Transportation. The line began using two-car trains, which were able to travel along the turning loop, but was later converted to use four-car trains, which could not be operated along the tight loop. Thus, the use of the loop for reversals was discontinued after 1988, although the loop's elevated structure remains over the passenger pick-up and drop-off building and was occasionally used as a tail track to store trains. The station platform was reduced to a single track and began using the Spanish solution of unloading and boarding passengers at Kennedy. Original floor finishing and platform edge markings for the planned light rail can also be seen along the current tracks.
Public art
Kennedy station used to feature a mural titled A Sense of Place by artist Frank Perna. The mural was completed in 1997<ref name="perna">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and used to wrap around the station's main entrance, but when the entrance was demolished in 2018,<ref name="andrew">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Better source needed</ref> half of the mural was destroyed.
As part of a program to install artworks at major interchange stations along Line 5 Eglinton, Kennedy station will feature two new artworks when the line opens. A mural titled Reorganization of One Hedge by artist Dagmara Genda will consist of photographs of leaves taken from the same hedge that will be printed on the glass of a skylight.<ref name=TheStar-2018-01-15>Template:Cite news</ref> A second artwork, titled Locations of Meaning by artist Joseph Kosuth, will consist of etched tiles with stainless steel inserts, each spelling the word "meaning" in one of 72 languages used in Toronto.<ref name="Metrolinx-2022/06/30">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Surface connections
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} There are two bus platforms at Kennedy station. Platform A, within the fare-paid zone, contains bus bays 1 through 10. Bus platform B, opened on October 8, 2023, is located outside of the station building on the south side of platform A and contains bus bays 11 through 18, primarily serving buses running express to Scarborough Centre station.<ref name="TTC-2023-10-08B">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As of February 18, 2024, bus bays 6 through 10 are closed for construction related to the Scarborough Subway Extension.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
While the subway is closed, passengers may board buses outside the station near Transway Crescent. TTC routes serving the station include:
| Bay number | Route | Name | Additional information | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platform A | |||||
| 1 | Unloading only | ||||
| 2 | 34A | Eglinton East | Westbound to Eglinton station | ||
| 34B | Westbound to Don Mills Road and Wynford Drive Template:Small | ||||
| 954 | Lawrence East Express | Eastbound to Starspray Boulevard via Kennedy Road | |||
| 3 | 12A | Kingston Road | Westbound to Victoria Park station via Brimley Road and Variety Village | ||
| 12B | Westbound to Victoria Park station via Brimley Road | ||||
| 116 | Morningside | Eastbound to Finch Avenue East and Morningside Heights | |||
| 201 | Bluffer's Park | Southbound to Bluffer's Park Template:Small | |||
| 4 | 86A | Scarborough | Eastbound to Toronto Zoo | ||
| 86B | Eastbound to Highland Creek Template:Small | ||||
| 86C | Eastbound to Sheppard Avenue East | ||||
| 86D | Eastbound to Beechgrove Drive via Lawrence Avenue East | ||||
| 154 | Curran Hall | Eastbound to U of T Scarborough | |||
| Wheel-Trans | |||||
| 5 | 905A | Eglinton East Express | Eastbound to Conlins Road via U of T Scarborough Template:Small | ||
| 905B | Eastbound to U of T Scarborough Template:Small | ||||
| 986 | Scarborough Express | Eastbound to Sheppard Avenue East Template:Small | |||
| 6 | Under construction | ||||
| 7 | |||||
| 8 | |||||
| 9 | |||||
| 10 | |||||
| Platform B | |||||
| 11 | 903A | Kennedy Station–Scarborough Express | Northbound to Centennial College via Scarborough Centre station<ref name="Line-3-Future">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| 903B | Northbound to Scarborough Centre station | ||||
| 904 | Sheppard–Kennedy Express | Westbound to Don Mills station via Scarborough Centre station | |||
| 939A | Finch Express | Westbound to Finch station via Scarborough Centre station | |||
| 939B | Westbound to Finch West station via Scarborough Centre station and Finch station | ||||
| 12 | 38A | Highland Creek | Eastbound to Rouge Hill GO Station via Scarborough Centre station | ||
| 38B | Eastbound to U of T Scarborough via Scarborough Centre station | ||||
| 133 | Neilson | Northbound to Morningside Heights via Scarborough Centre station and Centenary Hospital | |||
| 938 | Highland Creek Express | Eastbound to U of T Scarborough via Scarborough Centre station Template:Small | |||
| 334 | Eglinton East | Blue Night service; eastbound to Finch Avenue East and Neilson Road via Morningside Avenue | |||
| 386 | Scarborough | Blue Night service; eastbound to Sheppard Avenue East | |||
| 13 | 20 | Cliffside | Westbound to Main Street station | ||
| 113 | Danforth | Westbound to Main Street station | |||
| 131 | Nugget | Eastbound to Old Finch Avenue and Morningview Trail via Scarborough Centre station | |||
| 300B | Bloor–Danforth | Blue Night service; westbound to West Mall | |||
| 14 | 21C | Brimley | Northbound to Steeles Avenue East via Scarborough Centre station | ||
| 57 | Midland | Northbound towards Steeles Avenue East | |||
| 334 | Eglinton East | Blue Night service; westbound to Eglinton station | |||
| 15 | 129A | McCowan North | Northbound to Major Mackenzie Drive East via Scarborough Centre station | ||
| 129B | Northbound to Steeles Avenue East via Scarborough Centre station | ||||
| Line 2 | Shuttle Bus | Westbound towards Warden station Template:Small | |||
| 16 | 43A | Kennedy | Northbound to Steeles Avenue East | ||
| 43B | Northbound to Scarborough Centre station via Progress Avenue | ||||
| 43C | Northbound to Village Green Square Template:Small | ||||
| 943 | Kennedy Express | Northbound to Steeles Avenue East Template:Small | |||
| 343 | Kennedy | Blue Night service; northbound to Steeles Avenue East | |||
| 17 | Layover Spot | ||||
| 18 | Layover Spot | ||||
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| 34 | Eglinton | Westbound to Mount Dennis station To replace all branches of current bus route 34 Eglinton East | |||
See also
- Eglinton East LRT, a proposed surface-level LRT line to run east from Kennedy station via Eglinton Avenue, Kingston Road and Morningside Avenue to Sheppard Avenue
- Template:Section link, a planned busway to operate along the former Line 3 Scarborough right-of-way between Kennedy station and Ellesmere Road
References
External links
- Template:TTC station page
- Template:YouTube published by the Crosstown project about an art piece to be installed at Kennedy station