Highway 407 station

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Highway 407
TTC - Line 1 - Yonge-University-Spadina line.svg
TTC Highway 407 Station Platform 1.jpg
Highway 407 station at platform level
General information
Location7332 Jane Street,
Vaughan, Ontario
Canada
Coordinates43°47′02″N 79°31′23″W / 43.78389°N 79.52306°W / 43.78389; -79.52306Coordinates: 43°47′02″N 79°31′23″W / 43.78389°N 79.52306°W / 43.78389; -79.52306
PlatformsCentre platform
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Parking550 spaces
Disabled accessYes
ArchitectAedas
Architectural stylePostmodern architecture
History
OpenedDecember 17, 2017; 5 years ago (2017-12-17)[1]
Passengers
2018[2]3,440
Rank71 of 75
Services
Preceding station Logo of the Toronto Transit Commission.svg Toronto Transit Commission Following station
Vaughan
Terminus
 Yonge–University Pioneer Village
towards Finch

Highway 407 is a Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway. It is located at the southwest quadrant of the Jane Street and Highway 407 interchange, in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is one of two Toronto subway stations that are outside Toronto city, the other being Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station.

Description

Highway 407 station fare concourse

The design team for the station was AECOM as the prime consultant, Aedas as design architect, and Parsons Brinckerhoff as design engineers.[3] The station is an intermodal transit facility providing connections to York Region Transit (YRT), GO Transit buses, and Ontario Northland intercity coaches. It will also connect to a future Highway 407 Transitway.[4] The station has a 550-space commuter parking lot[5] and a large 18-bay regional bus terminal. This station has been engineered and positioned for the construction of underground bus platforms for the proposed Highway 407 Transitway.[6] The station has an open design, particularly to the east overlooking the Black Creek. Due to structural elements related to the water table, the centre platform has no columns, with all weight being transferred to the sides to counter buoyancy.[6] The station has a metal cool roof to reflect heat from the sun.[7]

Sky Ellipse glass panel artwork by David Pearl

Toronto artist David Pearl designed the artwork titled Sky Ellipse consisting of multi-coloured glass panels for the subway skylights and the western bus terminal glass facade. The panels show moving projections of colour. Sunlight filters down to platform level.[8][4][3]

History

On November 27, 2009, the official groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Toronto–York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE), and major tunnelling operations began in June 2011. The extension and station opened on December 17, 2017.[9]

While Highway 407, along with the five other TYSSE stations, had a fare booth installed as per original station plans,[10] the booth never housed collectors as the station was among the first eight to discontinue sales of legacy TTC fare media. Presto vending machines were available at its opening to sell Presto cards and to load funds or monthly passes onto them.[11] On May 3, 2019, this station became one of the first ten stations to sell Presto tickets via Presto vending machines.[12]

In 2018, Highway 407 station had the second-lowest usage of the six new stations along the TYSSE, at 3,400 people per day. The lowest was 2,500 people per day at Downsview Park station, and the highest was 34,100 people per day at York University. However, after GO bus routes were changed to terminate at Highway 407 station instead of the York University campus, usage at Highway 407 station was expected to increase, as much of the ridership at this station comes from York University students and staff transferring from GO buses.[13]

Fare zone

To avoid implementing a payment-on-exit system, the station is part of the Toronto TTC fare zone despite being located in York Region.[14] This is in contrast to TTC-contracted bus routes, where riders are required to pay extra fare (for YRT) when travelling beyond the municipal boundary at Steeles Avenue. This is analogous to the situation in 1968, when the TTC had an internal fare zone system and "Zone 2" fares were charged when crossing the zones on surface routes, yet no extra fare was required to reach five new subway stations which opened outside the pre-amalgamation Toronto city limits in Zone 2 that year. Zone 2 fares were charged, however, when transferring to connecting bus routes in the suburban municipalities of Metropolitan Toronto.[15] Similarly, at this station (as well as at the adjacent Vaughan Metropolitan Centre), separate fares are charged when transferring between the TTC subway and connecting YRT buses, which are the only local surface routes serving it.

Between January 2018 and March 2020, there was a $1.50 fare discount for GO bus riders transferring to or from the TTC subway if paying a single fare by Presto card.[16][17][18]

Highway 407 Bus Terminal

Highway 407 Bus Terminal
Highway 407 Bus Terminal 2021.jpg
General information
Owned byGO Transit
Bus routes
  •  20  Jane
  •  720  Highway 407 / Wonderland
  •  M  Mobility On-Request
GO bus symbol.svg GO buses
  •  25  Waterloo/Mississauga
  •  40  Hamilton/Richmond Hill
  •  45   46   47   48  407 West
  •  51   52   54  407 East
  •  101  /  102  Toronto–North Bay
  •  201  /  202  Toronto–Sudbury
Bus stands18
Bus operators
Construction
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeGO Transit: 02674
Fare zone19
History
OpenedDecember 30, 2017 (2017-12-30)[19]

There are no connecting TTC buses at this station, but the regional bus terminal, located outside the station's fare-paid area, serves YRT and GO Transit bus routes,[20][21] as well as Ontario Northland intercity coaches.[22] It is the only regional bus terminal serving a TTC subway station that is part of the main station building and is the largest bus terminal in the GO Transit system with 18 bus bays (13 for GO Transit and 5 for YRT) plus 17 layover bays. It includes a GO customer service counter, Presto and GO ticket vending machines, and washrooms.[19]

YRT routes serving the terminal:[23]

Route Name Additional information
020 Jane Northbound to Teston Road via Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station and Vaughan Mills Terminal
Southbound to Pioneer Village station
720 Highway 407 / Wonderland Northbound to Canada's Wonderland and Vaughan Mills Terminal Weekends only[24]
Mobility Plus

GO Transit routes serving the terminal:[25]

Route Name Additional information
25F Waterloo / Mississauga Westbound to University of Waterloo Friday & Sunday express
400 Hamilton / Richmond Hill Westbound to Hamilton GO Centre via Mississauga Transitway and Toronto Pearson International Airport.
Eastbound to Richmond Hill Centre
450 407 West
(All services westbound) 		to Streetsville GO Weekdays
45A to Square One Bus Terminal Seasonal weekday express
460 to Oakville GO Weekdays
470 to Hamilton GO Centre
47D to Bramalea GO Seasonal weekday express
47F to McMaster University Seasonal express
480 to University of Guelph Weekdays
48A to Meadowvale GO Seasonal weekday express
48B to Meadowvale GO Weekdays
48F to University of Guelph Friday and Sunday seasonal express
510 407 East
(All services eastbound) 		to Pickering GO Weekdays
51A to Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal Seasonal weekday express
51B to Pickering GO Station Weekday express
51C to University of Toronto Scarborough Seasonal weekday express
520 to Oshawa GO Station[26]
52B to UOIT (University of Ontario Institute of Technology) Seasonal weekday express
52D to Unionville GO Station Weekday express
540 to Mount Joy GO Station Weekdays
54C to Mount Joy GO Station Seasonal weekday express

Ontario Northland also serves the station with two daily northbound and two daily southbound trips on its Toronto–North Bay route, as well as two daily trips in each direction from Toronto–Sudbury.

References

  1. ^ Beattie, Samantha; Spurr, Ben (December 16, 2017). "After delays, cost overruns, and tragedy, a subway to Vaughan is complete". thestar.com. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  2. ^ "Subway ridership, 2018" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 26, 2019. Retrieved February 5, 2019. 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.
  3. ^ a b "TYSSE: Highway 407 Station". UrbanToronto. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Highway 407 Station". Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  5. ^ "Highway 407 Station". Ttc.ca.
  6. ^ a b "Highway 407 Station – Approval of Conceptual Design" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. November 17, 2009. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  7. ^ "TTC Green Initiatives". Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  8. ^ Dixon, Guy (September 29, 2017). "A subway station worth lingering in". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
  9. ^ TYSSE Schedule Status Update
  10. ^ "York University station – Site plan (P. 19)" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
  11. ^ "New Customer Service Agents at TTC stations". Toronto Transit Commission. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  12. ^ "TTC extends sales of Presto Tickets to 10 stations". Toronto Transit Commission. May 6, 2019. Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
  13. ^ Spurr, Ben (December 16, 2018). "Two stations on new York subway extension among the least used on the TTC network". Toronto Star. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  14. ^ James Bow. "A Subway to York University and Beyond: North of Finch". Transit Toronto.
  15. ^ James Bow. "A History of Subways on Bloor and Queen Streets: Celebrating the Subway's first stop in the suburbs". Transit Toronto.
  16. ^ Janus, Andrea (October 6, 2017). "Cheaper fare coming for transit users who ride both TTC and GO". CBC News. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  17. ^ https://www.prestocard.ca/en/about/discounted-double-fare
  18. ^ Westoll, Nick (January 21, 2020). "Discount fare program for riders transferring between TTC, GO Transit and UP Express set to end". Global News. Corus Entertainment. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
  19. ^ a b "Hwy 407 Bus Terminal". GO Transit. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
  20. ^ Christie, Nathan (November 28, 2014). "Catching Up With TTC's Upcoming Highway 407 Station". Urban Toronto.
  21. ^ "TTC Line 1 Subway Extension". York Region Transit. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
  22. ^ "Toronto – Barrie – Bracebridge – Huntsville – North Bay" (PDF). Ontario Northland. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  23. ^ "Terminals". YRT.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  24. ^ "Service Changes and Updates". June 20, 2022.
  25. ^ "Stop Finder". Triplinx.
  26. ^ Mackenzie, Robert (September 4, 2020). "GO revises routes and services, September 5". Transit Toronto. Retrieved September 6, 2020.

External links

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