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Dundas West station
Dundas West is a subway station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth of the Toronto subway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located just north of Bloor Street West at the corner of Dundas Street and Edna Avenue. The station is about 200 metres west of Bloor GO Station on the GO Transit Kitchener line and the Union Pearson Express.
The station, which is the northwestern terminus of the 504A King and 505 Dundas streetcar routes, has two streetcar platforms and five bus bays to allow riders to transfer between connecting routes. Wi-Fi service is available at this station. A McDonald's restaurant serves the station, with access from both the fare-paid and non-fare-paid areas of the station's upper level, and there is a Gateway Newstand on the mezzanine level.
To the east of the station, the subway runs in a twin-bored tunnel until just before the next station (Lansdowne). This allowed the tracks to pass underneath nearby railway lines without disturbing them during construction. To the west, the tracks follow a short "cut and cover" tunnel before emerging outside at the Dorval Portal. Trains run in the open air until they enter Keele Station.
The four tunnels comprising the Vincent Subway Yard are underground and south of the subway platforms. This station also houses the Subway Track Maintenance Office, which is located on the Mezzanine level.
Nearby landmarks include the Crossways residential and retail complex, Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School, The Lithuanian House banquet hall, Roncesvalles and the Junction neighbourhoods.
Dundas West station opened in 1966 as a part of the initial segment of the Bloor–Danforth line between Keele and Woodbine. Trolley buses on route 40 Junction served the station from 1968 to 1991.
In 2002, as part of a scheduled reconstruction of the streetcar tracks on Dundas Street, a second streetcar track and platform were added to improve reliability on both the 504 King and 505 Dundas streetcar routes. Until the completion of the second track, a streetcar waiting in the station on either route could hold up vehicles on the other. At the same time, elevators were added, making the station wheelchair-accessible.
Following controversy over the eponym of Dundas Street – British politician Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, who delayed the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade – Toronto City Council voted in 2021 to rename Dundas Street and other civic assets named after Dundas, such as Dundas West station. A new name was to be chosen in April 2022. In December 2023, citing costs, Toronto ultimately decided to keep Dundas' name for the street but to rename Yonge–Dundas Square (now Sankofa Square) and the two subway stations named after him, Dundas and Dundas West. Dundas station was renamed TMU station in December 2025, although as of January 2026, Dundas West has retained its name.
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Dundas West station
Dundas West is a subway station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth of the Toronto subway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located just north of Bloor Street West at the corner of Dundas Street and Edna Avenue. The station is about 200 metres west of Bloor GO Station on the GO Transit Kitchener line and the Union Pearson Express.
The station, which is the northwestern terminus of the 504A King and 505 Dundas streetcar routes, has two streetcar platforms and five bus bays to allow riders to transfer between connecting routes. Wi-Fi service is available at this station. A McDonald's restaurant serves the station, with access from both the fare-paid and non-fare-paid areas of the station's upper level, and there is a Gateway Newstand on the mezzanine level.
To the east of the station, the subway runs in a twin-bored tunnel until just before the next station (Lansdowne). This allowed the tracks to pass underneath nearby railway lines without disturbing them during construction. To the west, the tracks follow a short "cut and cover" tunnel before emerging outside at the Dorval Portal. Trains run in the open air until they enter Keele Station.
The four tunnels comprising the Vincent Subway Yard are underground and south of the subway platforms. This station also houses the Subway Track Maintenance Office, which is located on the Mezzanine level.
Nearby landmarks include the Crossways residential and retail complex, Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School, The Lithuanian House banquet hall, Roncesvalles and the Junction neighbourhoods.
Dundas West station opened in 1966 as a part of the initial segment of the Bloor–Danforth line between Keele and Woodbine. Trolley buses on route 40 Junction served the station from 1968 to 1991.
In 2002, as part of a scheduled reconstruction of the streetcar tracks on Dundas Street, a second streetcar track and platform were added to improve reliability on both the 504 King and 505 Dundas streetcar routes. Until the completion of the second track, a streetcar waiting in the station on either route could hold up vehicles on the other. At the same time, elevators were added, making the station wheelchair-accessible.
Following controversy over the eponym of Dundas Street – British politician Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, who delayed the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade – Toronto City Council voted in 2021 to rename Dundas Street and other civic assets named after Dundas, such as Dundas West station. A new name was to be chosen in April 2022. In December 2023, citing costs, Toronto ultimately decided to keep Dundas' name for the street but to rename Yonge–Dundas Square (now Sankofa Square) and the two subway stations named after him, Dundas and Dundas West. Dundas station was renamed TMU station in December 2025, although as of January 2026, Dundas West has retained its name.