Sheppard (TTC)
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Sheppard |
The Sheppard Line is the newest subway line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. It currently has five stations and is 5.5 kilometres long. It opened on November 24, 2002. It is also numbered as Route 4, but its route number is predominantly used by the TTC for internal purposes and is rarely used by the public or on TTC maps.
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History
Plans were developed in the early 1990s to build new subway lines along Eglinton and Sheppard Avenues. However, with the election of the Progressive Conservative provincial government in 1995, work on the Eglinton Line was stopped.
When the Sheppard Line opened in 2002, it was the city's first new subway line in decades. It is shorter than originally planned, going from Yonge Street (at Sheppard-Yonge station) east to Don Mills Road, and will only be extended with substantial government funding.
It cost just under $1 billion and took eight years to build. It is the first subway line in Canada to be built with a tunnel-boring machine. (All stations are in cut-and-cover tunnel.)
The stations are built to eventually take the TTC's standard subway trains of six 23 m (75-foot) cars, but part of each platform has been blocked off since only four-car trains are needed with the line in its present form. The line is designed so that it can be extended at both ends, running west at least as far as Downsview Station, and east and somewhat south to reach Scarborough Town Centre. The TTC still hopes to extend the line to Scarborough Town Centre, but the westward extension is no longer a priority.
It has been derided by critics as a "subway to nowhere" and a "stubway". It has, however, spurred over $1 billion of construction of new housing, including several high-rise condominum towers, along its route (particlaurly at Bayview), with more expected in coming years.
Stations
The entire line runs under or near Sheppard Avenue East. All of its stations, whether by transfer or fare-paid terminal, connect to surface TTC bus routes. All stations have elevators for wheelchair access, and public art is present in every station.
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| Sheppard-Yonge | Missing image 2002
Wheelchair.jpg | Yonge-University Spadina |
| Bayview | Missing image 2002
Wheelchair.jpg | |
| Bessarion | Missing image 2002
Wheelchair.jpg | |
| Leslie | Missing image 2002
Wheelchair.jpg | GO Transit |
| Don Mills | Missing image 2002
Wheelchair.jpg | York Region Transit |
Potential stations
Potential stations if the line is expanded:
- Downsview - existing Spadina subway line station
- Faywood
- Bathurst North
- Senlac
- Willowdale - additional station on existing line
- Consumers
- Victoria Park North
- Warden North
- Kennedy North
- Agincourt - connecting with existing Agincourt GO station
- Progress - between Brimley Road and Midland Avenue
- Scarborough Town Centre - existing Scarborough RT station
Source: Toronto Transit Sheppard line map (http://transit.toronto.on.ca/images/subway-5110-02.jpg)
See also
External links
- Transit Toronto -- The Sheppard subway (http://transit.toronto.on.ca/subway/5110.shtml)fr:Sheppard (TTC)