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Yorkdale is a
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on
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in
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, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the median of the William R. Allen Road just south of
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. Opened in 1978, the station is named after the nearby
Yorkdale Shopping Centre Yorkdale Shopping Centre is a shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the southwest corner of the Ontario Highway 401, Highway 401 and Allen Road interchange. It spans of selling space and has sales of per square foot ( per square metre ...
, to which it is connected by an enclosed walkway. Connections to
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and
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intercity buses are available at
Yorkdale Bus Terminal Yorkdale Bus Terminal, located at 1 Yorkdale Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada occupies the lowest level of an office building adjacent to Yorkdale Shopping Centre and is connected directly to Yorkdale subway station by a pedestrian bridge. Its cre ...
, immediately west of the station.


Entrances

* Yorkdale Mall west entrance, next to
Yorkdale Bus Terminal Yorkdale Bus Terminal, located at 1 Yorkdale Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada occupies the lowest level of an office building adjacent to Yorkdale Shopping Centre and is connected directly to Yorkdale subway station by a pedestrian bridge. Its cre ...
* Ranee Avenue and Allen Road, south entrance (unstaffed entrance) * Onramp to Highway 401 and Allen Road, north entrance


Architecture and art

Yorkdale was designed by
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. The station is above ground, and also above street level. It has two tracks: northbound and southbound, and has a
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. A dramatic vaulted glass roof spans the length of the single centre platform. It terminates symmetrically at
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s and stairs at both ends of the platform, creating the appearance of a glass dome. The interior walls of the station at platform level are unfinished concrete, but artistically cast, and curve over the tracks to form the ceiling. The shape of the windows on these walls recalls the oval windows of subway trains. On the exterior, these concrete walls are clad with
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. Handrails on stairs leading to the platform are backlit. Platform shelters are unique to the station, designed in the oval shape which dominates many features in the station, with large windows. Like the centre pillars which hold X-shaped structural supports—distinctive in Toronto's rapid transit system to the station—they are clad in unpainted metal panels. Yorkdale station won a
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's Award for Architecture in 1982. The station's glass roof originally featured an artwork by Michael Hayden—also responsible for the ''Sky's the Limit'' installation at Chicago's
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—called ''Arc en ciel'' (
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for "rainbow"). This piece consisted of a large number of mercury-vapour lamps painted in various colours that would light in a pattern, running along the station in the appropriate direction whenever a train went through. In the mid-1990s, it stopped working because of damaged transformers caused by water leakage. Each transformer would have cost just $28 to repair at the time; however, because the TTC had not budgeted for its continued maintenance, it was removed at the artist's request. At a TTC meeting in September 2010, a deal was made for
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, owner of Yorkdale Mall which connects to the station, to pay for the restoration of the installation. The plan calls for the rebuilt piece to use
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lights, allowing for a broader range and customization of colours and patterns. Hayden requested that a maintenance contract be included, and for the piece installed by a Toronto-based company. The cost of such a reinstallation was not known (the original installation cost $100,000) until 13 July 2016, when it was revealed that the Oxford Properties would pay for much of the $500,000 cost to re-install the art installation, with some of the funds being from a pool dedicated to community improvements.


History

In late 2013, the entrance at Ranee Avenue was altered: the south and north driveways were removed, and curb was added to run parallel with the support pillars. Buses no longer drop passengers off directly at the doors. This project was completed in conjunction with resurfacing of Ranee to remove asbestos and the future construction of residential buildings along Allen Road on the south side of Ranee. In January 2014, the parking structure connected to the subway, which could accommodate 1144 cars, was demolished for mall expansion. Construction of a new parking structure was delayed to coincide with the opening of
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and eventually opened in February 2017, with 1,010 spaces. On 6 January 2019, this station discontinued sales of legacy TTC fare media (tokens and tickets), previously available at a fare collector booth. Presto vending machines were available to sell
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s and to load funds or a monthly Metropass onto them. On 5 April 2019, and Yorkdale stations became the first two locations to sell single-use Presto tickets, which are sold from the stations' Presto fare vending machines.


Subway infrastructure in the vicinity

South of Yorkdale station, Allen Road descends into a shallow open cut below the surrounding ground level, and the subway descends with it until
Eglinton West station Eglinton West is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the median of Allen Road on the north side of Eglinton Avenue West. It will become an interchange station with the upcoming Line 5 Eg ...
. North of Yorkdale, the tracks remain elevated and cross Highway 401 to Wilson station.


Surface connections


Toronto Transit Commission

A transfer is required to connect between the subway and surface bus routes. TTC routes serving the station include:


In popular culture

Yorkdale station was used as the Transit Hub station in the film ''
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'' (1981) because of its futuristic look. The station also appears in both ''
Scanners ''Scanners'' is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with unusual telep ...
'' (1981) and ''
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'' (1983).


References


External links

* {{TTCstations Line 1 Yonge–University stations Railway stations in Canada opened in 1978 Arthur Erickson buildings City of Toronto Heritage Properties Railway stations in highway medians