Our sister site UrbanToronto.ca recently toured Downsview Park Station, the southernmost station on a subway extension stretching northwards to the City of Vaughan. Set to open at the end of 2017, the new subway leg will mark the first subway expansion in Toronto in 15 years.

Downsview Park Station, image by Jack Landau

You'll find fossils at the Toronto Transit Commission's future Downsview Park subway station, if you look carefully enough, but, otherwise, everything is brand spanking new.

In fact, "These are state-of-the-art subway stations," explained the TTC's chief executive officer, Andy Byford about this station and others on the Line 1 extension to Vaughan. "Wi-Fi-ready, PRESTO-enabled and using automatic train control."

Byford was speaking to reporters during an official media tour of the future station Monday. Downsview Park is the southernmost of the new stations on the extended line. The TTC expects to open the station—and the entire extension—this December. The new TTC station is also a GO Transit station, with trains operating along GO's Barrie line also dropping off or picking up passengers at the new stop when the subway station opens. 

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