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Spadina Line 1 platform Spadina Line 2 platform | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 6 Spadina Road Toronto, Ontario Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°40′02″N 79°24′14″W / 43.66722°N 79.40389°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Toronto Transit Commission | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platforms (Line 1 and Line 2) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 (2 per line) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Architect | Adamson Associates (Line 1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | Official station page | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rank | 11 of 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Spadina is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University and Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Spadina Road, north of Bloor Street West. It is one of only three stations open overnight, along with Queens Quay station and Union station.[2] Wi-Fi service is available at this station.[3]
The station consists of two separate sections, one for each line, at the same level and 150 metres apart. The north–south platforms, which opened in 1978, were originally planned as a separate station, but the TTC decided to join to the existing 1966 east–west station with a pedestrian tunnel containing a pair of long moving walkways. The cost of the moving walkways themselves became an issue when they became due for refurbishment or replacement,[4] and they were shut down and ultimately removed in 2004, leaving the corridor as a simple underground walkway. The former location of the moving walkways remains visible because the tiles used to cover their removal are noticeably different. Warnings to hold the handrails are still embossed on the walls where the ends of the moving walkways were once located.
An underground loop for the 510 Spadina streetcar was added in 1997 near the east end of the east–west platforms. The streetcar platform adds Postmodern finishes to the station's mix of styles. These range from the basic Modernist tiles of the Bloor–Danforth line platform, to the more intricate round tiles and backlit signage of the Yonge–University line platform.
In 1997, this station became accessible only to the Bloor–Danforth platforms and exit.
- ^ "Subway ridership, 2023-2024" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved November 12, 2024.
This table shows the typical number of customer-boardings made on each subway line and the number of customers travelling to and from each station platform on a typical weekday in Sep 2023-Aug 2024.
- ^ "Route 510 - The Spadina Streetcar - Transit Toronto - Content". transittoronto.ca. Archived from the original on August 10, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
- ^ "There's now free WiFi at over 40 TTC subway stations". blogTO. Archived from the original on September 12, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
- ^ Yuen, Jenny (October 28, 2004). "TTC kills walkway - NOW Magazine". NOW Toronto. Archived from the original on May 8, 2023. Retrieved May 8, 2023.