Public Transportation
The Sheppard Subway runs under Sheppard Avenue East from Yonge Street to Don Mills Road, with proposals to continue the line farther eastwards to the Scarborough Town Centre and westwards to Downsview Station at Allen Road. There are five stations on the line providing access to Sheppard Avenue, including Bayview, Bessarion, and Leslie, as well as the Sheppard-Yonge (at the junction with the Yonge section of the Yonge-University-Spadina line line) Don Mills termini. Downsview station is located at the corner of Sheppard and Allen Road at the northern terminus of the Spadina section of the Yonge-University-Spadina line.
Three bus routes runs along Sheppard Avenue in Toronto from Sheppard Subway station:
- 84 Sheppard West (1974–present)
- 85 Sheppard East (1963-present)
- Blue Night Network 385 Sheppard East (2005–present)
This bus route runs along Sheppard Avenue East between Scarborough Centre and Don Mills Stations:
- 190 Scarborough Centre Rocket (2002-present)
GO Transit has stations at Agincourt on the Stouffville line, on Sheppard between Kennedy Road and Midland Avenue, and at Oriole on the Richmond Hill line, south-west of the intersection of Leslie Street and Sheppard.
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