Subway Extensions
Construction is underway on an extension of the Spadina line north from Downsview to York University and Steeles Avenue and Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. The Government of Ontario has committed $670 million – one third of the expected cost – to extending the Spadina subway past Steeles to the proposed Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. Completion of the project is scheduled for the autumn of 2016.
The TTC has proposed that Downsview be renamed Sheppard West with the opening of the Spadina extension, and that the proposed new Sheppard West station be named Downsview Park. This is because Downsview station is better identified as being on Sheppard Avenue, while Sheppard West (Downsview Park) is closer to the entrance of Downsview Park.
The original plans for the Sheppard line called for it to connect with the Spadina line at Downsview, but when constructed in the late 1990s the line was halted after the first phase due to funding issues. After election in Fall 2010, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford indicated that completing the Sheppard line to its original route is his top transit priority
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