Kennedy

Kennedy TTC Subway Station
Station statistics
Address	2455 Eglinton Avenue East
Coordinates	43°43′57″N 79°15′49″W / 43.7325°N 79.26361°W / 43.7325; -79.26361Coordinates: 43°43′57″N 79°15′49″W / 43.7325°N 79.26361°W / 43.7325; -79.26361
Lines	Bloor–Danforth      Scarborough RT
Connections	TTC buses      Kennedy GO Station
Structure	underground (BD line) elevated (SRT line)
Levels	3
Platforms	centre (BD line) side (SRT line)
Other information
Opened	21 November 1980 (BD line) 22 March 1985 (SRT line)
Accessible
Traffic
Passengers (2007-08)	74,830 (BD line) 40,440 (SRT line) 115,270 Total
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Warden toward Kipling Bloor–Danforth Terminus Terminus Scarborough RT Lawrence East toward McCowan

Scarborough RT leaving Kennedy Station

Kennedy is a station on the Bloor-Danforth and Scarborough RT lines of the Toronto, Ontario, Canada, subway system; it is a terminus for each line, which depart in opposite directions. It is located at 2455 Eglinton Avenue East, just east of Kennedy Road. The station opened in 1980 in what was then the Borough of Scarborough with the Bloor-Danforth platform, and the Scarborough RT platform opened in 1985. It now connects with the adjacent Kennedy station on GO Transit's Stouffville railway line.

Kennedy is a four-level station, with the Scarborough RT on top, then the bus terminal, the entry concourse that leads to the GO railway station and parking, and the subway on the bottom. The subway and RT tracks through the station are parallel. All TTC levels are accessible by elevator. Four parking lots surround the station, providing commuters with a total of 1138 spaces.

Kennedy is the third busiest station in the system, after St. George, and Bloor-Yonge, serving a combined total of approximately 115,270 people a day. In 2008, the Toronto Star reported this station to be a "known problem area" in terms of crime in the subway system, along with Lawrence West, Lansdowne, and Warden stations.^[1]

Kennedy is getting busier as the population growth in the Scarborough area increases. Statistics show that Kennedy is the third busiest station in the transit system but it is also one of its smaller stations. The TTC and the municipality government of City of Toronto have bruited the possibility of expanding the station in order to meet the increasing demand. As bus service increases, the need for more bus bays will probably also rise.

Rapid transit infrastructure in the vicinity

Leaving the station, the Scarborough RT line descends to ground level and turns north to run alongside the Canadian National Railway railway tracks.

Although the Scarborough RT trains are bidirectional, at this station they originally reversed on a loop like single-ended streetcars, because when Kennedy station was built, the TTC planned to run the line as a dedicated right-of-way for streetcars, rather than the light metro that was eventually constructed. They would enter the station from the east, unload passengers, run onto an elevated loop west of the station to reverse, return to the station, and call at a second platform to load passengers before departing eastward.

The trains could not handle the sharp curves of the loop as well as expected, so the station was rebuilt in 1988 to eliminate its regular use. Because of another curve at the east end of the station, it was not possible to add a scissors crossover there, so the station was reduced to a single terminal track. Trains now use that single track to reverse; platforms on either side allow for trains to open their doors on both sides while stopped. The original loading platform on the south side of the tracks, extended to meet the single remaining track, is still the one primarily used for loading, and the other for unloading. The loop track still exists, now constituting a dead-end tail track where a train could be stored if necessary.

Nearby landmarks

Nearby landmarks include the Don Montgomery Community Centre (formerly called Mid-Scarborough Community Centre).

Surface connections

• 12B Kingston Road to Victoria Park Station via Brimley
• 20 Cliffside to Main Street Station
• 21 Brimley to Steeles via Scarborough Centre Station

21S Short Turn to Eglinton Ave East (Southbound)

21A to Scarborough Centre

• 34 Eglinton East

34 Eastbound to Kingston Road

34 Westbound to Eglinton Station

34C (Eastbound and Westbound)

34S Short Turn to Warden (Eastbound)

34S Short Turn to Brentcliffe Road (Westbound)

• 43 Kennedy to Steeles Avenue

43B to Scarborough Centre Station via Progress Road

43S Short Turn to Lawrence Ave (Southbound)

• 57 Midland to Steeles

57S Short Turn to Finch Ave (Northbound)

57S Short Turn to Lawerence Ave (Southbound)

• 86 Scarborough to Sheppard

86A to Toronto Zoo

86B to Highland Creek

86D to Beechgrove via Lawrence

86E Express to Sheppard (rush hours only)

• 113 Danforth to Main Street Station
• 116 Morningside to Finch

116A to Conlins via Ellesmere

116E Express to U of T Scarborough and Conlins via Ellesmere (rush hours only)

116S Short Turn to Sheppard (Northbound)

116S Short Turn to Danforth And Brimley (Southbound)

• 131E Nugget Express to Old Finch/Morningview via Scarborough Centre Station (rush hours only)
• Kennedy GO Station

Transit City proposal

The Transit City proposal calls for two new LRT lines known as the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line, running along Eglinton Avenue from Toronto Pearson International Airport and Mississauga to Kennedy Station, and the Scarborough Malvern LRT, running along Eglinton Avenue, Kingston Road, and Morningside Avenue from Kennedy Station to Malvern.

References

External links

• Official TTC page for Kennedy Station

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