Kennedy (TTC)

"Kennedy station" redirects here. For the commuter rail station, see Kennedy GO Station.
Kennedy

Pedestrian entrance on the south service road of Eglinton Avenue
Location 2455 Eglinton Avenue East
Canada
Coordinates 43°43′57″N 79°15′49″W / 43.73250°N 79.26361°W / 43.73250; -79.26361Coordinates: 43°43′57″N 79°15′49″W / 43.73250°N 79.26361°W / 43.73250; -79.26361
Platforms 1 centre platform (on Line 2)
2 side platforms (on Line 3)
Tracks 3 (2 on Line 2 and 1 for Line 3)
Connections

Kennedy GO Station

Construction
Structure type underground (Line 2)
elevated (Line 3)
Platform levels 4
Parking 1,135 spaces
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened 21 November 1980 (1980-11-21) (Line 2)
22 March 1985 (1985-03-22) (Line 3)
Traffic
Passengers (2014[1]) 71,440 (Line 2)
35,890 (Line 3)
107,330 (Total)
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station
toward Kipling
 Bloor–DanforthTerminus
Terminus Scarborough
toward McCowan
toward Mount Dennis
 Eglinton
Opens 2021
Terminus

Kennedy is a station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth and Line 3 Scarborough of the Toronto subway system. The station was opened in 1980, and is located east of the Kennedy Road and Eglinton Avenue intersection. It is the terminal station for both lines.[2] 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 St. George, Bloor-Yonge, Sheppard-Yonge, and Union, serving a total of approximately 107,330 customer trips a day.

The station's main complex consists of four floors with wheelchair accessible entrances. The ground level is the bus terminal surrounded with ten platforms that serve eleven Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus routes.

The station is to be overhauled and expanded over the next decade as Line 3 will be decommissioned once the extension of Line 2 to Scarborough City Centre has been completed. The future light rail line, Line 5 Eglinton, will terminate at the station when its first phase opens in 2020.[3] The city's proposed commuter rail line is also planned to connect at Kennedy.

New Presto paddle-door fare gates are being installed at this station making it the first interchange subway station to feature the new fare gates which replaces the old turnstiles. It will be fully operational by December 2016 which is when all TTC stations and vehicles will accept payments via Presto card system-wide. [4]

Station features

SRT leaving the station, showing the sharp curve that would complicate replacing the SRT with heavy rail.

The station is located south of Eglinton Avenue, east of Kennedy Road. The station complex consists of four levels. The S-series trains of Line 3 Scarborough ascend via a bridge to the platform located at the top level of the station complex. The ground floor (third floor) consists of ten bus platforms surrounding the main building. Four satellite pedestrian entrances to the station can be found at the South Parking Lot, next to the Don Montgomery Community Centre, at the service road of Eglinton Avenue, and the passenger pick-up and drop-off roundabout on Transway Crescent. 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.

Although Line 3 trains are bidirectionally-operated metro trains, the tracks for Line 3 extends 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 was discontinued after 1988, although the loop's bridge structure remains over the passenger pick-up and drop-off building. 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.

Original design was to have SRT trains loop at the west end of the station, but the single track now provides access to the trains from platforms on both sides

Four park and ride lots, that have a combined total of 1135 spaces, are located around the station.

Bus terminal

Bus platform level of the station

There are 10 platforms for its 11 routes at the station. The most recent realignment occurred on December 8, 2014.[5]

86B to Highland Creek
86C to Sheppard Avenue
86D to Beechgrove Drive via Lawrence Avenue
  • Platform 4
  • Platform 5
    • 116A Morningside to Conlins Road via Ellesmere Road
116B to Kingston Road & Eglinton Avenue (rush hours only)
116C to Finch Avenue
12B to Victoria Park Station (Saturday, Sunday and Holidays)
  • 57 Midland to Steeles Avenue
  • Platform 8
    • 34A Eglinton East to Eglinton Station
    • 34B to Don Mills Road and Wynford Drive (Saturday only)
  • Platform 9
    • 43A Kennedy to Steeles Avenue
43B to Scarborough Centre Station via Progress Avenue
  • Platform 10
    • 21A Brimley to Scarborough Centre Station
21C to Steeles Avenue via Scarborough Centre Station
  • 131E Nugget Express to Old Finch/Morningview via Scarborough Centre Station (rush hours only)

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 Kennedy Station". Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Kennedy Station - Crosstown". Eglinton Crosstown. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  4. ↑ http://www.ttc.ca/Fares_and_passes/PRESTO/PRESTO_Subway.jsp
  5. ↑ http://transit.toronto.on.ca/archives/weblog/2014/12/03-ttc_revisi.shtml

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