Exhibition GO Station is a

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, Ontario, Canada. The station is one of the

Lakeshore West line Lakeshore West is one of the GO Transit rail services, seven passenger lines of the GO Transit system in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. It extends from Union Station (Toronto), Union Station in Toronto to Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton, ...

stations between Toronto and

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. It is located west of downtown Toronto at Exhibition Place, an area of convention and exhibition venues, sports facilities, and other entertainment attractions, restaurants and nightclubs. It is also on the south side of Liberty Village, a former industrial area which has been redeveloped into a residential neighbourhood with retail and restaurants. Although the station is widely used during the

Canadian National Exhibition The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), also known as The Exhibition or The Ex, is an annual fair that takes place at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on the third Friday of August leading up to and including Labour Day (Canada), ...

, other major events and destinations at the Exhibition grounds include, Coca-Cola Coliseum, Enercare Centre,

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, Liberty Grand,

BMO Field BMO Field is an outdoor stadium located at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Constructed on the former Exhibition Stadium site and first opened in 2007, it is the home field of Toronto FC of Major League Soccer (MLS) and Toronto Ar ...

Ontario Place Ontario Place was an entertainment venue, event venue, and park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The venue is located on three artificial landscaped islands just off-shore in Lake Ontario, south of Exhibition Place, and southwest of Downtown Toron ...

, Budweiser Stage and Honda Indy Toronto.

Transit connections

Directly in front of the station there is a connection with

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buses on Dufferin route 29C and at the nearby Exhibition Loop with 511 Bathurst and

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streetcar lines. A suggestion was made in 2013 to integrate TTC and GO Transit fares so that riders from the adjoining Liberty Village neighbourhood would not have to pay full fare again when transferring between the GO train and TTC services. This proposal was also seen as a way to help ease

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congestion on the

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streetcar.

History

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The original

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station consisted of a wooden frame building, located on the south side of the tracks just east of

Dufferin Street Dufferin Street is a major north–south street in Toronto, Vaughan and King, Ontario, Canada. It is a concession road, two concessions (4 km) west of Yonge Street. The street starts at Exhibition Place, continues north to Toronto's nor ...

. The grade separation, which was done between 1910 and 1912, resulted in the demolition of that station since it was necessary to build a retaining wall along the south side of the cutting. New Dufferin Gates were constructed at the entrance to Exhibition Place, with concrete stairs down to two side platforms west of the new bridge over the tracks. Passenger service continue to operate there until the 1960s. Work to widen the platforms and add a snowmelt system, an accessible boarding area, and platform canopies began in the fourth quarter of 2012 and was completed in the second quarter of 2016.

Future

Exhibition is the southwestern terminus of the proposed

Ontario Line The Ontario Line is a rapid transit line under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its northern terminus will be at Eglinton Avenue and Don Mills Road, at Don Valley station, where it will connect with Line 5 Eglinton. Its southern terminu ...

. The Ontario Line platforms will be north of the current Lakeshore West line tracks. The line is targeted for a 2030 opening. A much larger station structure is planned as part of that work; as a result, in late 2023 work began on a temporary pedestrian overpass to handle passenger volumes during construction.

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