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More than 1400 TTC buses serve the campus every weekday, in addition to hundreds more spread across other services including Go Transit, York Region Transit/Viva, Brampton Transit and Greyhound. The development of a subway station will greatly reduce the number of buses entering campus by effectively eliminating the 196 York University Rocket bus route, and will serve to greatly improve public transit access to the university and surrounding area.
The university’s main buildings lie to the west of the proposed location. Seneca College’s York campus is found to the south, and the Rexall Centre to the west.
The station is being built underground, lying on a northwest-southeast axis. The line will approach from Finch West station along Keele Street, then bend northwestward to meet the station.
Architecture firm Foster+Partners has been commissioned for the design, which includes a curving ramp connecting the entrances.
While the official ground breaking ceremony for the Spadina Extension was held on 27 November 2009, major tunneling operations started in June 2011. The project is expected to be completed by the autumn of 2016.
The first stage of construction began in May 2011. On October 11, 2011, one worker was killed and five others injured when a drilling rig working on the station site collapsed.
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