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Bloor–Yonge is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University and Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located in Downtown Toronto , under the intersection of Yonge Street and Bloor Street , it is the busiest subway station in the system, handling over 200,000 passengers on an average weekday.
The Toronto subway is a system of three underground, surface, and elevated rapid transit lines in Toronto and Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). It was the country's first subway system: the first line was built under Yonge Street with a short stretch along Front Street and opened in 1954 with 12 stations.
A further Yonge subway extension opens from York Mills to Finch. [1] January 28, 1978 The "Spadina subway", [24] an extension of the "University subway", opens from St. George to Wilson. [1] This line is renamed the "Yonge–University–Spadina subway". November 21, 1980 Bloor–Danforth subway extensions open west to Kipling and east to ...
Plans for an east–west downtown subway line date back to the early 20th century, most of which ran along Queen Street.In the 1980s, plans first emerged for a "Downtown Relief Line" that would provide capacity relief to the Yonge segment of Line 1 and the Bloor–Yonge interchange station, and extend subway service coverage in the city's east end.
St. George is a station on Line 1 Yonge–University and Line 2 Bloor–Danforth of the Toronto subway. It is located north of Bloor Street West between St. George Street and Bedford Road. It is the second-busiest station in the system after Bloor–Yonge station, serving a combined total of approximately 209,994 people a day.
The subway line is closed nightly for maintenance, during which Blue Night Network bus routes provide service along the route. [8] The most travelled part of the line is located in Toronto's midtown area known as Yorkville. [9] In this area, the subway connects to Line 1 Yonge–University at Spadina, St. George and Bloor–Yonge stations.
Lower Bay signage from 1966, when the TTC was about to open the Bloor–Danforth subway line. Below the main platform for Bay station is an abandoned platform, which was used for only six months in 1966 when the TTC experimentally ran trains whose routes included portions of both the Yonge–University and Bloor–Danforth lines.
The Relief Line (formerly the Downtown Relief Line or DRL) was a proposed rapid transit line for the Toronto subway system, intended to provide capacity relief to the Yonge segment of Line 1 and Bloor–Yonge station and extend subway service coverage in the city's east end.