Lawrence (TTC)

Infobox TTC station
station=Lawrence
address=3101 Yonge Street


opened=March 31, 1973
district=Old Toronto
line=Yonge-University-Spadina line
nextstation=≅2.0 km north to York Mills 2 min≅2.3 km south to Eglinton 3 min
connections=52 Lawrence West, 97 Yonge, 124 Sunnybrook, 162 Lawrence-Donway
nightconnections=320 Yonge, 352 Lawrence West
rank=39th busiest out of 69
dailyboardings=formatnum:TTC ridership|Lawrence
elevators=0
platforms=Centre platform
wheelchair=

Lawrence is a station on the Yonge-University-Spadina line of the subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 3101 Yonge Street at Lawrence Avenue West/East, with an unstaffed entrance at Bedford Park Road/Ranleigh Avenue. It was opened in 1973, as an intermediate stop between Eglinton, the former northern terminus of the Yonge line, and York Mills, which acted as a temporary terminus for a year until the subway was extended to Finch.

Nearby landmarks include Lawrence Park and the series of parks that run through Chatsworth and Blythwood ravines from Chatsworth Drive and Cheritan Avenue to Bayview Avenue, a distance of about 2.8 kilometres. Lawrence was the first station on the network to feature an underground bus terminal (York Mills, St. Clair West, and Don Mills are the others), and is one of Toronto’s deepest stations. The station has one centre platform serving trains going in both directions, and is relatively nondescript (on both the inside and outside).

Buses enter the station counter to the normal traffic directions in North America (to the left instead of the right). A series of renovations have been completed to repair damage to the walls and roadway of the bus platform.

On April 23 2007, TTC employee Antonio Almeida was killed in the tunnel just south of the station when a platform on their work car dislodged. [ [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/04/23/worker-death.html Toronto transit worker dies in subway tunnel accident ] ]

There are four exits from the station:

* Lawrence Ave. northwest side of Yonge at Continental Place
* Lawrence Ave. northeast side of Yonge
* Bedford Park Ave. northwest side of Yonge
*Ranleigh Ave. northeast side of Yonge

Nearby landmarks

* Alexander Muir Park and Gardens [http://wholemap.com/map/llz.php?lat=43.72158299799694&lng=-79.40122961997986&zoom=17 located here]
* Toronto Public Library Locke Branch

Surface connections

*52 Lawrence West
*97 Yonge
*124 Sunnybrook
*162 Lawrence-Donway

ee also

* Lawrence Park

References