Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!lsuc!sickkids!mark
From: mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: Phantom subway station?
Message-ID: <122@sickkids.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 88 12:34:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: sickkids.122
References: <1636@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Reply-To: mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt)
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In article <1636@maccs.McMaster.CA> gordan@maccs.McMaster.CA (gordan) writes:

> According to a story I heard the other day, there is supposedly a
> phantom subway station in Toronto.

> According to this story (which is thirdhand information, according to a
> friend of a friend of a friend who was a friend of a TTC inspector),
> there is a shiny new subway station somewhere below the city, with about
> 500 m of dead-end track leading from it.  The funding to complete it
> supposedly ran out, but this station may yet someday come into service.

> Any chance of this being true?

The only "phantom" station that I'm aware of is an east-west platform
a level below the north-south platform at Queen and Yonge.  This was
apparently built in anticipation of an east-west subway running along
Queen Street.  Needs changed, and the line was never built.  However,
every time the much-discussed proposed "relief" line (northeast from
downtown, connecting to the Bloor-Danforth line at (I think) Donlands)
appears in the news, there is some talk about where this proposed line
should terminate (or connect with an existing line) in the downtown area.
Union seems to be the favourite candidate, but the old unused portion of
the Queen station is often discussed as an alternative as well.

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