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The Bloor-Danforth line is the main east-west Subway Line in Toronto , Ontario , Canada , operated by the Toronto Transit Commission . It has 31 Stations and is 26.2 Km (16.3 Mile s) in length. It opened in 1966, and extensions at both ends were completed in 1968 and again in 1980. It is also numbered as Route 2 (formerly route 602), but its route number is used only for internal purposes and is not shown on public maps or signs. HISTORY There was some debate in the 1960 about where the second Toronto subway line would run. There were many advocates for it to run under Queen Street , but many others supported Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue . Due to the large amount of growth in that area, and the prophetically available rail deck under the Bloor Street Viaduct , the second option went ahead. Before the subway, the TTC operated streetcars from Jane Street in the West, to Lutterell Avenue (west of Victoria Park Avenue ) using paired PCC Streetcar s or multiple units (MUs) from 1950 to the subway line openning in 1968. The original Bloor-Danforth line was built in 1966, going under Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue from Keele Station in the west to Woodbine Station in the east. Construction was already in progress to extend the Bloor-Danforth line in both directions, and these extensions opened simultaneously in 1968, to Islington Station in the west and Warden Station in the east. Until its abolition in 1973, the five stations from Old Mill and Victoria Park outward then formed an anomaly in the TTC's Zone Fare System , being treated as part of the central Zone 1. In 1980, the line was extended once again, to the current termini of Kipling Station in the west end and Kennedy Station in the east. STATIONS The line has its western terminus near Kipling Avenue and Bloor Street West. Going east for twelve kilometers along Bloor, it meets the Yonge-University-Spadina Line at Spadina , St. George , and Yonge stations. Two kilometres further on Bloor East, crossing the Bloor Street Viaduct, it continues just north of Danforth Avenue for six more kilometres before turning northeast for the final five kilometres, ending at Kennedy Station (near Kennedy Road and Eglinton Avenue) which is also the southern terminus of the Scarborough RT . Most of the line is underground, with exceptions noted below; most of the tunnel is cut-and-cover, but some is bored. The line generally does not run under Bloor Street or Danforth Avenue themselves, but is offset to the north: in some areas it runs under a parking alley behind the businesses on the north side of the street, while some other sections run under side streets. All stations except Chester connect to surface TTC bus and/or streetcar routes either by transfer or fare-paid terminal. Other surface and train connections are noted below. As of April 2006 , stations marked have Elevator s for Wheelchair Access (note that at Spadina Station , only the Bloor line platforms are wheelchair-accessible).
EXTENSION/EXPANSION POTENTIAL Between Mississauga City Centre and ''' Kipling ''' The TTC's Rapid Transit Expansion Study (RTES) identifies the extension of this line as a low priority. As per Exhibits ES-14 and ES-15 in the RTES, possible extensions beyond the current western terminus include:
In October 2005, a number of Toronto politicians began a campaign to expand the line northeastward as an alternative for the Scarborough RT , which is heavily used and under constant repair, and to study the viability of this alternative. Proposed Scarborough RT integration stations: (From Kennedy Station)
SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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