Yorkdale (TTC)
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Yorkdale Shopping Centre
Yorkdale is a station on the Yonge-University Spadina line of the subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station was designed by Arthur Erickson[1]. It is on William R. Allen Road just south of Highway 401. It opened in 1978 in what was then the Borough of North York, and was named for the nearby Yorkdale Shopping Centre, to which it connected by an enclosed walkway, except for immediately outside the north station entrance. Connections are available to GO Transit buses (as well as Greyhound and airport shuttles) at Yorkdale Bus Terminal at the south east corner.
The station is above ground, and also above street level. It has two tracks, northbound and southbound, and a central platform. The station's arched glass roof originally featured an artwork by Michael Hayden called Arc en Ciel (French for "rainbow"). This consisted of a large number of variously coloured neon lights that would light in a pattern running along the station in the appropriate direction whenever a train went through. After some years, it stopped working. Because the TTC had not budgeted for its continued maintenance, and at the artist's request, it was removed.
South of Yorkdale station, Allen Road descends into a shallow open cut below the surrounding ground level, and the subway descends with it until Eglinton West Station. North of Yorkdale the tracks remain elevated and cross Highway 401 to Wilson Station.
Yorkdale can be accessed from:
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[edit] Yorkdale in the movies
Yorkdale station was used as the Transit Hub station in the film The Last Chase (1980) because of its futuristic look.
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