Bathurst (TTC)

Bathurst
Location	819 Bathurst Street Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43°39′58″N 79°24′40″W / 43.66611°N 79.41111°WCoordinates: 43°39′58″N 79°24′40″W / 43.66611°N 79.41111°W
Platforms	side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	TTC buses and streetcars  7  Bathurst  511  Bathurst  300   Bloor - Danforth  307   Bathurst
Construction
Structure type	underground
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	25 February 1966
Traffic
Passengers (2014[1])	35,510
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Christie toward Kipling Bloor–Danforth Spadina toward Kennedy Streetcar line toward Exhibition 511 Bathurst Terminus

Bathurst is a subway station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station, which opened in 1966, is located on Bathurst Street just north of Bloor Street West. It is a major transfer point for both bus and streetcar routes, including the 511 Bathurst route, which provides services to Exhibition Place.

The ticket collector and turnstiles are in the station building at the surface, which puts streetcar and bus platforms within the fare paid zone. The opening of the elevators in January 2000 made the station fully accessible.^[2] Elevators provide access between the eastbound platform and concourse, and between the westbound platform and street level via the concourse. There are also regular stairway and escalator connections between all levels.

In November 2016, the Honest Ed's style signs and slogans are decorated in this station to commemorate the impact of Honest Ed’s landmark discount store on the community will remain on display until Honest Ed's closes on December 31, 2016. Temporary signs hand-painted in the familiar Honest Ed’s style welcome customers at street level, and the windows are decorated with the TTC’s unique take on Ed’s famous punny signs. At the concourse level, a permanent tribute has been installed with photos and store memorabilia. The subway platform walls are decorated with fun facts about Honest Ed’s. In addition to this unique tribute, the TTC’s November Metropass features Honest Ed’s famous sign.^[3][4][5]

Destinations

The station serves The Annex and Koreatown neighbourhoods. Nearby destinations include Honest Ed's, St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Bathurst Street Theatre, Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema (formerly The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema), Lee's Palace, Central Technical School and Harbord Collegiate Institute.

Surface connections

• 7 Bathurst to Steeles Avenue
• 307 Blue Night Bathurst northbound to Steeles Avenue and southbound to Exhibition Loop
• 511 Bathurst to Exhibition Loop

Passengers board an Exhibition-bound ALRV

Parkette

Ed & Anne Mirvish Parkette
Location	819 Bathurst St, Toronto
Coordinates	43°40′00″N 79°24′41.4″W / 43.66667°N 79.411500°W
Operated by	Toronto Parks

The piece of land between the main station building and Bathurst Street, encircled by the streetcar loop tracks, is used by the City of Toronto as a public park. Previously named "Bathurst Subway Parkette", a ceremony took place on September 22, 2008 to rename the park "Ed & Anne Mirvish Parkette". Ed Mirvish had been a well known local businessman whose landmark Honest Ed's discount store, is located nearby at the southwest corner of Bloor Street and Bathurst Street. The Mirvish family had requested an appropriate commemoration to Ed, who had died on July 11, 2007 ^[6] and the City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division recommended the renaming of this parkette as an opportunity to honour Ed and his wife Anne, who were both a positive influence on the community.^[7]

References

1. "Subway ridership, 2014" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved September 12, 2015. This table shows the typical number of customer-trips made on each subway on an average weekday and the typical number of customers travelling to and from each station platform on an average weekday.
2. "TTC doubles number of elevators for easier access". Transit Toronto. Canadian Newswire. 24 January 2000. Retrieved January 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
3. http://www.blogto.com/city/2016/11/ttc_station_gets_a_retro_honest_eds_makeover/
4. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/honest-eds-ttc-signs-1.3831000
5. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/11/01/something-ed-citing-is-happening-at-bathurst-station--.html
6. Letter to Toronto and East York Community Council
7. Staff report for action on the renaming of Bathurst Subway Parkette

External links

Media related to Bathurst Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Bathurst Station at the Toronto Transit Commission