Our sister site UrbanToronto.ca continues to make their way through the stations of the under-construction Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension, which is set to enter service at the end of this year. York University Station has proven especially noteworthy — featuring a design by Arup Canada and the world-renowned Foster + Partners, the boomerang-shaped station will be located within the campus of one of Canada's largest post-secondary schools.

York University Station, image by Jack Landau

About 1,900 TTC and GO Transit buses circle the oblong Harry W. Arthurs Common at the centre of York University's Keele campus every weekday. (York Region Transit/Viva and Brampton Transit buses contribute another 600 daily trips nearby on the campus.) Oval portals protrude from the common — marking emergency exits or ventilation shafts — hinting at the station box below. Finally, the sleek curves of the parabolic station building dominate the west end of the Common.

Joanna Kervin, the TTC's director for Third-Party Planning and Property and Peter Boyce, the station's site construction manager, recently led members of the UrbanToronto team on a tour of the site. Although the station is still covered in construction dust, it certainly appears to be almost ready to welcome passengers and subway trains.

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