Highway 407 is a
Toronto Transit Commission
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(TTC) subway station on
Line 1 Yonge–University
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of the
Toronto subway
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. It is located at the southwest quadrant of the
Jane Street
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and
Highway 407
The following highways are numbered 407:
Canada
* Manitoba Provincial Road 407
* Newfoundland and Labrador Route 407
* Ontario Highway 407
Costa Rica
* National Route 407
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* Route 407 (Iceland)
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* State road 407
Japan
* Japa ...
interchange, in
Vaughan
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, Ontario, Canada. It is one of two Toronto subway stations that are outside the city of
Toronto
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, the other being
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station
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.
Description
![TTC Highway 407 Station Fare Gate](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/TTC_Highway_407_Station_Fare_Gate.jpg)
The design team for the station was
AECOM
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as the prime consultant,
Aedas
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as design architect, and
Parsons Brinckerhoff
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as design engineers.
The station is an intermodal transit facility providing connections to
York Region Transit
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YRT operates 65 full-time, rush hour and limited routes, 35 school services, and six Viva bus ...
(YRT),
GO Transit
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buses, and
Ontario Northland
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intercity coaches. It will also connect to a future
Highway 407 Transitway
The 407 Transitway is a bus rapid transit system (BRT) being planned along Ontario Highway 407, spanning the Greater Toronto Area between Brant Street in Burlington, and Enfield Road in Durham Region.
Planning for the 407 Transitway has occurr ...
.
The station has a 550-space commuter parking lot 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.
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.
The station has a metal
cool roof
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to reflect heat from the sun.
![Highway 407 Station Interior 2021](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Highway_407_Station_Interior_2021.jpg)
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.
History
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.
While Highway 407, along with the five other TYSSE stations, had a fare booth installed as per original station plans, 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 card
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s and to load funds or monthly passes onto them.
On May 3, 2019, this station became one of the first ten stations to sell Presto tickets via Presto vending machines.
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 . 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.
Fare zone
To avoid implementing a payment-on-exit system, the station is part of the Toronto TTC fare zone despite being located in York Region. 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
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. 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
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. Similarly, at this station (as well as at the adjacent ), separate fares are charged when transferring between the TTC subway and connecting regional transit buses, such as YRT, which are the only 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
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.
Highway 407 Bus Terminal
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, as well as Ontario Northland intercity coaches. 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
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In scheduled transportation, a layover (also waypoint, way ...
bays. It includes a GO customer service counter, Presto and GO ticket vending machines, and washrooms.
YRT routes serving the terminal:
GO Transit routes serving the terminal:
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.
References
External links
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Line 1 Yonge–University stations
Railway stations in Canada opened in 2017
Toronto Transit Commission stations located underground
2017 establishments in Ontario
Railway stations in the Regional Municipality of York