Ossington (TTC)

Ossington

Location

746 Ossington Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Coordinates

43°39′44″N 79°25′36″W / 43.66222°N 79.42667°WCoordinates: 43°39′44″N 79°25′36″W / 43.66222°N 79.42667°W

Platforms

side platforms

Tracks

Connections

TTC buses

Construction

Structure type

underground

History

Opened

25 February 1966

Traffic

Passengers (2013^[1])

31,470

Services

Preceding station		TTC		Following station
Dufferin toward Kipling		Bloor–Danforth		Christie toward Kennedy

Ossington is a subway station on the Bloor–Danforth line in Toronto, Canada. It is located at Ossington Avenue just north of Bloor Street West and opened in 1966 as part of the original segment of the subway line.

Entrances

The main station entrance is on the west side of Ossington Avenue, just north of Bloor. There is a second automatic entrance, which can only be entered using tokens or Metropasses, on Delaware Avenue, beside a TTC electrical substation.

Surface connections

Main article: List of Toronto Transit Commission bus routes

Bus platforms at Ossington Station

63A Ossington northbound to Eglinton West Station and southbound to Liberty Village

63B northbound to St. Clair Avenue and southbound to Liberty Village

94A Wellesley to Castle Frank Station
161 Rogers Road to Jane Street
363 Blue Night Ossington northbound to Eglinton West Station and southbound to Canadian National Exhibition

Easier access program

In the summer of 2014, work has begun on the station to make it accessible to all customers. Improvements to the station include two new elevators to access the subway platforms, automatic sliding doors, barrier free access to the platform, security upgrades, and signage improvements.^[2]

References

↑ "Subway ridership, 2013" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved September 12, 2015. This table shows the typical number of customer-trips made on each subway on an average weekday and the typical number of customers travelling to and from each station platform on an average weekday.
↑ "TTC Ossington Station". Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved 31 July 2014.

External links

Media related to Ossington Station at Wikimedia Commons

Ossington Station at the Toronto Transit Commission

Stations of the Toronto Transit Commission

Yonge–University	Finch North York Centre Sheppard–Yonge York Mills Lawrence Eglinton Davisville St. Clair Summerhill Rosedale Bloor–Yonge Wellesley College Dundas Queen King Union St. Andrew Osgoode St. Patrick Queen's Park Museum St. George Spadina Dupont St. Clair West Eglinton West Glencairn Lawrence West Yorkdale Wilson Downsview (Sheppard West) Downsview Park Finch West York University Pioneer Village Highway 407 Vaughan Metropolitan Centre

Bloor–Danforth	Kipling Islington Royal York Old Mill Jane Runnymede High Park Keele Dundas West Lansdowne Dufferin Ossington Christie Bathurst Spadina St. George Bay Bloor–Yonge Sherbourne Castle Frank Broadview Chester Pape Donlands Greenwood Coxwell Woodbine Main Street Victoria Park Warden Kennedy

Scarborough	Kennedy Lawrence East Ellesmere Midland Scarborough Centre McCowan

Sheppard	Sheppard–Yonge Bayview Bessarion Leslie Don Mills

Eglinton (under construction)	Mount Dennis Keelesdale Caledonia Fairbank Oakwood Cedarvale (Eglinton West) Forest Hill Chaplin Avenue Eglinton Mount Pleasant Leaside Laird Sunnybrook Park Science Centre Aga Khan Park & Museum Wynford Sloane O'Connor Pharmacy Hakimi Lebovic Golden Mile Birchmount Ionview Kennedy

Streetcar system	Bingham Loop Dufferin Loop Exhibition Loop Fleet Loop Gunns Loop High Park Loop Humber Loop Long Branch Loop McCaul Loop Neville Park Loop Queens Quay station

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