St. Clair (TTC)

St. Clair
Location	15 St. Clair Avenue East Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43°41′16″N 79°23′35″W / 43.68778°N 79.39306°WCoordinates: 43°41′16″N 79°23′35″W / 43.68778°N 79.39306°W
Platforms	side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	TTC buses  512
Construction
Structure type	underground
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	30 March 1954
Traffic
Passengers (2013[1])	39,880
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Summerhill toward Downsview Yonge–University Davisville toward Finch St. Clair West toward Gunns Loop 512 St. Clair Terminus

St. Clair is a subway station on the Yonge–University line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station opened in 1954 as part of the original Yonge Street subway.

The station is located behind the buildings which front on the east side of Yonge Street. The main entrance is on the south side of St. Clair Avenue East, with the collectors booth, fare barrier and a McDonald's restaurant at street level, and a streetcar loop on the east side of the building. On the concourse level below that, at the south end of the station off Pleasant Boulevard, is a second staffed entrance and the bus platforms.^[2] The station has been fully accessible since 2007, with elevators, escalators and stairway connecting all levels.

Entrance on south side of St. Clair Ave, just east of Yonge St.

Subway infrastructure in the vicinity

North of the station, the tunnel jogs west to cross to the west side of Yonge Street. At the Muir Portal the line runs in an open cut for 1.3 kilometres, between Yonge Street and the Davisville Yard, the TTC's original subway yard.

South of the station, the train continues to travel in a tunnel. Originally, the area south of the station was open-cut until Summerhill Avenue, immediately before Summerhill station; the line continued in open cut as far as Pleasant Boulevard, just before the next station to the north, St. Clair. Various sections of this open cut were roofed over as the years passed, and since the early 1980s it has been entirely under cover, except when one block was opened out and re-covered, to allow new construction above it. Passengers who look out into the tunnel on this section can still see the sloping sides of the original cut, the stumps of lamp posts and trees, and the undersides of four road bridges.

Nearby landmarks

Nearby landmarks include the David A. Balfour Park (Vale of Avoca section of Rosedale ravine), St. Michael's Cemetery, Deer Park, Moore Park, Upper Canada College, and Forest Hill.

Surface connections

• 74 Mt. Pleasant to Eglinton Avenue and Mt. Pleasant Road
• 88A South Leaside to Thorncliffe Park Drive via Overlea Boulevard

88B to Thorncliffe Park Drive via Wicksteed Avenue

• 97B Yonge northbound to Steeles Avenue (Transfer to buses at stops on the street outside the station)

97B southbound to Queens Quay

97C northbound to Steeles Avenue

97D northbound to York Mills Station via Yonge Blvd.

97B southbound to Queens Quay

• 312 Blue Night St. Clair-Junction to Dundas West Station
• 320 Blue Night Yonge northbound to Steeles Avenue and southbound to Queens Quay (Transfer to buses at stops on the street outside the station)

320A northbound to York Mills Station

320E northbound to Eglinton Station

• 512 St. Clair to Gunns Loop

References

1. "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.
2. James Bow. "A History of the Original Yonge Subway". Transit Toronto. Retrieved January 2014.

External links

Media related to St. Clair Station at Wikimedia Commons

• St. Clair Station at the Toronto Transit Commission