{"id":952,"date":"2009-11-20T10:28:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=952"},"modified":"2009-11-20T10:28:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:28:29","slug":"there-is-light-at-the-end-of-the-steeles-west-subway-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/there-is-light-at-the-end-of-the-steeles-west-subway-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"There is light at the end of the Steeles West subway tunnel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-954\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-954\" title=\"An artist rendering of the Steeles West subway station.\" src=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/steeleswest_2009_11_20.jpg\" alt=\"An artist rendering of the Steeles West subway station.\" width=\"450\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/steeleswest_2009_11_20.jpg 450w, https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/steeleswest_2009_11_20-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist rendering of the Steeles West subway station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Each of the six subway stations that will be built along the <a title=\"Spadina extension\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/spadina_extension\" target=\"_blank\">Spadina subway extension<\/a> \u2013 a key part of the vivaNext plan \u2013 will have a unique design.<\/p>\n<p>Above ground, the most striking feature of the <a title=\"Steeles West Station\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/354\" target=\"_blank\">Steeles West Station<\/a> conceptual design is its very distinctive and futuristic profile. It looks like something right out of \u2018The Jetsons\u2019. Below ground, a central light cone will bring daylight all the way down to the platform levels \u2013 a solution that\u2019s both illuminating and eco-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>The Steeles West subway station will also feature a commuter parking lot with 1,900 parking spaces plus two bus terminals, including one for <a title=\"YRT\\Viva\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkregiontransit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">YRT and Viva<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Planned service frequency from Downsview Station to Steeles West Station is every two minutes, and from Steeles West Station to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station, every five minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each of the six subway stations that will be built along the Spadina subway extension \u2013 a key part of the vivaNext plan \u2013 will have a unique design. Above ground, the most striking feature of the Steeles West Station conceptual design is its very distinctive and futuristic profile. It looks like something right out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,67,59],"tags":[8,246,146,245,10,13,44,939,48,175,6,7,9,170],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-going-green","category-stations","category-subways","tag-connections","tag-eco-friendly","tag-spadina-extension","tag-steeles-west","tag-subway-extension","tag-toronto","tag-tunnel-boring","tag-urban-planning","tag-vaughan","tag-vaughan-metropolitan-centre","tag-viva","tag-vivanext","tag-york-region","tag-york-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}