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Yorkdale is a Station on the Yonge-University Spadina Line of the Subway System in Toronto , Canada . It is on William R. Allen Road just south of Highway 401 . It opened in 1978 , and was named for the nearby Yorkdale Shopping Centre , to which it connected by an enclosed walkway. Connections are available to GO Transit buses (as well as Greyhound and airport shuttles) at the Yorkdale Bus Terminal at the south east corner. Nearby attractions include Downsview Park and Columbus Centre. The station has two tracks, northbound and southbound, and a central platform. The station's arched glass roof originally featured an artwork by Michael Hayden called ''Arc en Ciel'' ( French for "rainbow"). This consisted of a large number of variously coloured Neon Light s that would light in a pattern running along the station in the appropriate direction whenever a train went through. After some years, it stopped working. Because the computer system used to control the lights would have been expensive to replace, it was removed. South of Yorkdale station, Allen Road descends into a shallow open cut below the surrounding ground level, and the subway descends with it. Yorkdale can be accessed from:
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