Highway 407 is a Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway. It is located at the southwest quadrant of the Jane Street and Highway 407 interchange, in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is one of two Toronto subway stations that are outside Toronto city, the other being Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station.
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![]() Highway 407 station at platform level | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | 7332 Jane Street, Vaughan, Ontario Canada | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 43°47′02″N 79°31′23″W | ||||||||||
Platforms | Centre platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
Parking | 550 spaces | ||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
Architect | Aedas | ||||||||||
Architectural style | Postmodern architecture | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | December 17, 2017; 4 years ago (2017-12-17)[1] | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2018[2] | 3,440 | ||||||||||
Rank | 71 of 75 | ||||||||||
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The design team for the station was AECOM as the prime consultant, Aedas as design architect, and Parsons Brinckerhoff as design engineers.[3] The station is an intermodal transit facility providing connections to York Region Transit (YRT), GO Transit buses, and Ontario Northland intercity coaches. It will also connect to a future Highway 407 Transitway.[4] The station has a 550-space commuter parking lot[5] and a large 18-bay regional bus terminal. This station has been engineered and positioned for the construction of underground bus platforms for the proposed Highway 407 Transitway.[6] The station has an open design, particularly to the east overlooking the Black Creek. Due to structural elements related to the water table, the centre platform has no columns, with all weight being transferred to the sides to counter buoyancy.[6] The station has a metal cool roof to reflect heat from the sun.[7]
Toronto artist David Pearl designed the artwork titled Sky Ellipse consisting of multi-coloured glass panels for the subway skylights and the western bus terminal glass facade. The panels show moving projections of colour. Sunlight filters down to platform level.[8][4][3]
On November 27, 2009, the official groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Toronto–York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE), and major tunnelling operations began in June 2011. The extension and station opened on December 17, 2017.[9]
While Highway 407, along with the five other TYSSE stations, had a fare booth installed as per original station plans,[10] the booth never housed collectors as the station was among the first eight to discontinue sales of legacy TTC fare media. Presto vending machines were available at its opening to sell Presto cards and to load funds or monthly passes onto them.[11] On May 3, 2019, this station became one of the first ten stations to sell Presto tickets via Presto vending machines.[12]
In 2018, Highway 407 station had the second-lowest usage of the six new stations along the TYSSE, at 3,400 people per day. The lowest was 2,500 people per day at Downsview Park station, and the highest was 34,100 people per day at York University. However, after GO bus routes were changed to terminate at Highway 407 station instead of the York University campus, usage at Highway 407 station was expected to increase, as much of the ridership at this station comes from York University students and staff transferring from GO buses.[13]
To avoid implementing a payment-on-exit system, the station is part of the Toronto TTC fare zone despite being located in York Region.[14] This is in contrast to TTC-contracted bus routes, where riders are required to pay extra fare (for YRT) when travelling beyond the municipal boundary at Steeles Avenue. This is analogous to the situation in 1968, when the TTC had an internal fare zone system and "Zone 2" fares were charged when crossing the zones on surface routes, yet no extra fare was required to reach five new subway stations which opened outside the pre-amalgamation Toronto city limits in Zone 2 that year. Zone 2 fares were charged, however, when transferring to connecting bus routes in the suburban municipalities of Metropolitan Toronto.[15] Similarly, at this station (as well as at the adjacent Vaughan Metropolitan Centre), separate fares are charged when transferring between the TTC subway and connecting YRT buses, which are the only local surface routes serving it.
Between January 2018 and March 2020, there was a $1.50 fare discount for GO bus riders transferring to or from the TTC subway if paying a single fare by Presto card.[16][17][18]
Highway 407 Bus Terminal | |
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General information | |
Owned by | GO Transit |
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Bus stands | 18 |
Bus operators |
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Construction | |
Disabled access | Yes |
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Station code | GO Transit: 02674 |
Fare zone | 19 |
History | |
Opened | December 30, 2017 (2017-12-30)[19] |
There are no connecting TTC buses at this station, but the regional bus terminal, located outside the station's fare-paid area, serves YRT and GO Transit bus routes,[20][21] as well as Ontario Northland intercity coaches.[22] It is the only regional bus terminal serving a TTC subway station that is part of the main station building and is the largest bus terminal in the GO Transit system with 18 bus bays (13 for GO Transit and 5 for YRT) plus 17 layover bays. It includes a GO customer service counter, Presto and GO ticket vending machines, and washrooms.[19]
YRT routes serving the terminal:[23]
Route | Name | Additional information |
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20 | Jane | Northbound to Teston Road via Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station and Vaughan Mills Terminal; southbound to Pioneer Village station |
720 | Highway 407 / Wonderland | Northbound to Canada's Wonderland and Vaughan Mills Terminal (weekends only)[24] |
Mobility Plus |
GO Transit routes serving the terminal:[25]
Route | Name | Additional information |
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25F | Waterloo/Mississauga | Westbound to University of Waterloo Friday & Sunday express |
40 | Hamilton / Richmond Hill | Westbound to Hamilton GO Centre via Mississauga Transitway and Toronto Pearson International Airport. Eastbound to Richmond Hill Centre |
45 | 407 West (All services westbound) |
To Streetsville GO Weekdays |
45A | To Square One Bus Terminal Seasonal weekday express | |
46 | To Oakville GO Weekdays | |
47 | To Hamilton GO Centre | |
47D | To Bramalea GO Seasonal weekday express | |
47F | To McMaster University Seasonal express | |
48 | To University of Guelph Weekdays | |
48A | To Meadowvale GO Seasonal weekday express | |
48B | To Meadowvale GO Weekdays | |
48F | To University of Guelph Friday and Sunday seasonal express | |
51 | 407 East (All services eastbound) |
To Pickering GO Weekdays |
51A | To Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal Seasonal weekday express | |
51B | To Pickering GO Station Weekday express | |
51C | To University of Toronto Scarborough Seasonal weekday express | |
52 | To Oshawa GO Station[26] | |
52B | To Ontario Tech University Seasonal weekday express | |
52D | To Unionville GO Station
Weekday express | |
54 | To Mount Joy GO Station Weekdays | |
54C | To Mount Joy GO Station Seasonal weekday express |
Ontario Northland also serves the station with two daily northbound and two daily southbound trips on its Toronto–North Bay route, as well as two daily trips in each direction from Toronto–Sudbury.
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.
Media related to Highway 407 station at Wikimedia Commons
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