Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!lsuc!ncrcan!hcr!jim
From: jim@hcr.UUCP (Jim Sullivan)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: Phantom subway station?
Message-ID: <4230@hcr.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 88 15:49:45 GMT
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References: <1636@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Reply-To: jim@hcrvax.UUCP (Jim Sullivan)
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In article <1636@maccs.McMaster.CA> gordan@maccs.UUCP 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?

From what I understand, originally the hub station was to be Queen, not Bloor.
When they first built the subway, they built the tunnels/platforms, at Queen,
for this station.  Plans changed and Bloor became the hub station.  Note that
as part of the TRANSIT 2000 plan, there are plans to add a feeder line from
the Pape station into downtown.  If I'm not mistaken, this line would feed
into the Queen station, using the old original station!

jim sullivan

Information from newspapers, the Sunday Star Comics and general knowledge.
I could be wrong.