Entire TTC system will be free Sunday to celebrate new Line 1 extension
Six new subway stops, reaching all the way to Vaughan, will be open for service for the first time Sunday. It’s the first new TTC subway project in a decade.

Thestar.com
Enna McIntosh
Dec. 16, 2017

The entire TTC system will be free for riders Sunday to celebrate the opening of the new Line 1 extension.

The extension, which was unveiled in a ceremony Friday, will open to the public -- and subway service -- Sunday morning. The six stops on the 8.6-kilometre line reach to York University and beyond, ending at Vaughan Metropolitan Centre.

“We want everyone to be a part of history and experience the opening of the new Line 1 extension and see how beautiful and inspiring these new stations really are,” said Ontario Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca in a written statement Saturday. “The opening of the Toronto-York subway extension is the single greatest transit achievement for this region in my lifetime.”

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The extension is the first addition to Toronto’s subway system since the Sheppard Line opened in 2002.

By 2020, the new line is expected to carry 24 million passengers per year. It will take roughly 42 minutes to travel from Vaughan Metropolitan Centre to Union Station.

It will also cut some commutes to York University in half -- an estimated 27,000 people are expected the use the York University station, one of two stops servicing the school, daily.

The $2.3-billion project was funded by the federal and provincial governments, along with the municipalities of Toronto and York. It was originally supposed to open in 2015, but was delayed in part by disputes with contractors and the death of a worker at the York University station in 2011.