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'Kennedy' is a station on the Bloor-Danforth and Scarborough RT lines of the Toronto, Ontario, Canada, subway system; it is a terminus for each line, which depart in opposite directions. It is located at 2455 Eglinton Avenue East, just east of Kennedy Road. The station opened in 1980 with the Bloor-Danforth platform, and the Scarborough RT platform opened in 1985. It now connects with the adjacent Kennedy station on GO Transit's Stouffville railway line. Nearby landmarks include the Mid-Scarborough Community Centre.
Kennedy is a four-level station, with the Scarborough RT on top, then the bus terminal, the entry concourse that leads to the GO railway station and parking, and the subway on the bottom. The subway and RT tracks through the station are parallel. Leaving the station, the Scarborough RT line descends to ground level and turns north to run alongside the Canadian National Railway railway tracks. All TTC levels are accessible by elevator.
Although the Scarborough RT trains are bidirectional, at this station they originally reversed on a loop like single-ended streetcars, because when Kennedy station was built, the TTC planned to run the line as a dedicated right-of-way for streetcars, rather than the light metro that was eventually constructed. They would enter the station from the east, unload passengers, run onto an elevated loop west of the station to reverse, return to the station, and call at a second platform to load passengers before departing eastward.
The trains could not handle the sharp curves of the loop as well as expected, so the station was rebuilt in 1988 to eliminate it. Because of another curve at the east end of the station, it was not possible to add a scissors crossover there, so the station was reduced to a single terminal track. Trains now use that track to reverse; platforms on either side allow for trains to open their doors on both sides while stopped. Although not formal, it is traditional for the south platform to be considered as the loading platform and the north side to be for unloading. This corresponds to the original layout of the station, and is identical to how an eastbound passenger on a non-terminal station with outside platforms would load (incoming trains are southbound, but make a sharp right curve right before entering the station to aim westward, thus passengers disembark on the north platform)
Kennedy is the third busiest station in the system, after St. George and Bloor-Yonge, serving a combined total of approximately 107,570 people a day.
Kennedy station is getting busier as the population growth in the Scarborough area increases. Statistics show that Kennedy is the third busiest station in the transit system but it is also one of its smaller stations. It has four floors including a basement level for subways, a lower-mid level for various underground walkway paths to and from significant locations around Kennedy Station, a ground level for buses and an above-ground level for the Scarborough RT. Therefore, the TTC and the municipality government of City of Toronto have bruited the possibility of expandng the station in order to meet the increasing demand. As bus service increases, the need for more bus bays will probably also rise.

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Rapid transit extension and replacement

Surface connections

Transit City proposal

Rapid transit extension and replacement

The TTC is planning to upgrade and extend the SRT with newer but similar RT technology.

Surface connections

★ 12 Kingston Road

★ 20 Cliffside

★ 21 Brimley

★ 34 Eglinton East

★ 43 Kennedy (to Steeles Ave.)

★ 43B Kennedy(to Scarborough Centre Station VIA Progress Rd.)

★ 57 Midland

★ 86 Scarborough

★ 113 Danforth

★ 116 Morningside

★ 116E Morningside Express

★ 131E Nugget Express (rush hours only)

★ Kennedy (GO Station)

Transit City proposal

The Transit City proposal calls for two new LRT lines known as the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line, running along Eglinton Avenue from Toronto Pearson International Airport and Mississauga to Kennedy Station, and the Scarborough Malvern LRT, running along Eglinton Avenue, Kingston Road, and Morningside Avenue from Kennedy Station to Malvern.