Kennedy (TTC)

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	TTC buses  12  Kingston Rd  20  Cliffside  21  Brimley  34  Eglinton East  43  Kennedy  57  Midland  86  Scarborough  113  Danforth  116  Morningside  131EF  Nugget Express  198  U of T Scarborough Rocket  300   Bloor - Danforth  334   Eglinton East  343   Kennedy 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 Warden toward Kipling Bloor–Danforth Terminus Terminus Scarborough Lawrence East toward McCowan Ionview 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]

References

External links

Media related to Kennedy Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Kennedy Station at the Toronto Transit Commission

Stations, stops and loops of the Toronto Transit Commission
Yonge–University	Finch North York Centre Sheppard–Yonge York Mills Lawrence Eglinton Davisville St. Clair Summerhill Rosedale Bloor–Yonge Wellesley College Dundas Queen King Union St. Andrew Osgoode St. Patrick Queen's Park Museum St. George Spadina Dupont St. Clair West Eglinton West (Cedarvale) Glencairn Lawrence West Yorkdale Wilson Downsview (Sheppard West) Downsview Park Finch West York University Pioneer Village Highway 407 Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
Bloor–Danforth	Kipling Islington Royal York Old Mill Jane Runnymede High Park Keele Dundas West Lansdowne Dufferin Ossington Christie Bathurst Spadina St. George Bay Bloor–Yonge Sherbourne Castle Frank Broadview Chester Pape Donlands Greenwood Coxwell Woodbine Main Street Victoria Park Warden Kennedy
Scarborough	Kennedy Lawrence East Ellesmere Midland Scarborough Centre McCowan
Sheppard	Sheppard–Yonge Bayview Bessarion Leslie Don Mills
Eglinton	Mount Dennis Keelesdale Caledonia Fairbank Oakwood Eglinton West (Cedarvale) Forest Hill Chaplin Oriole Park Eglinton Mount Pleasant Leaside Laird Sunnybrook Park Science Centre Aga Khan Park & Museum Wynford Sloane O'Connor Pharmacy Hakimi Lebovic Golden Mile Birchmount Ionview Kennedy
Streetcar system	Bingham Loop Distillery Loop Dufferin Loop Exhibition Loop Fleet Loop Gunns Loop High Park Loop Humber Loop Long Branch Loop McCaul Loop Neville Park Loop Queens Quay station
Italics indicate a project under construction