Yorkdale Bus Terminal

Yorkdale Bus Terminal
General information
Location	1 Yorkdale Road Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43°43′31″N 79°26′56″W
Bus stands	13
Bus operators	GO Bus Ontario Northland Megabus (Coach Canada)
Connections	Yorkdale TTC buses
Construction
Parking	Shopping centre parking only[1]
Other information
Station code	GO Transit: YKDL
History
Opened	1979

Yorkdale Bus Terminal, located at 1 Yorkdale Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada^[1] occupies the lowest level of an office building^[1] adjacent to Yorkdale Shopping Centre and is connected directly to Yorkdale subway station by a pedestrian bridge.^[2]

Its creation was announced by James Snow, the Ontario Minister of Transportation and Communications, in March 1977.^[3] Construction of the station started soon afterward and was expected to be completed by late 1977.^[3]

The bus terminal is strategically located in the middle of what was formerly the North York, at Allen Road on the south side of Highway 401, the main transportation artery across the Greater Toronto Area. That is ideal for providing GO Transit commuter bus services to points east and west of the city and long-distance intercity coach connections by Ontario Northland.^[4][5] When it opened on October 12, 1979, it was a hub for Gray Coach interurban bus service and, until 2000, for the Toronto Airport Express bus service, which was originally operated by Gray Coach and, after 1993, by Pacific Western Transportation.

Because of the office building directly above the terminal, there is a severe height restriction within the terminal, which prevented GO Transit from operating its current fleet of double-decker buses into the terminal until Enviro 500 'Super-Lo' models became available.

Services

GO Transit

• Route 19 Mississauga/North York
• Route 27 Milton/North York
• Route 36 Brampton/North York
• Route 92 Oshawa/Yorkdale
• Route 94 Pickering/Mississauga

Megabus

• Mississauga/Kingston

Ontario Northland

• Toronto/Sudbury
• Toronto/North Bay

Local bus connections

Bus stop is located on the west side of Yorkdale Road to the north of the terminal.

• 47 Lansdowne (TTC)^[6]

References

1. "Yorkdale Bus Terminal— BUS TERMINAL". GO Transit. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
2. "TTC - Existing Yorkdale Station, North Entrance" (PDF). Lawrence-Allen Revitalization. City of Toronto. 28 April 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
3. "TATOA to get Finch terminal". The Era. 2 March 1977. p. B02. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
4. "GO Transit Bus Terminal". Trains & Buses. Ontario Northland. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
5. "Greyhound Terminal, Yorkdale". Locations. Greyhound.ca. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
6. "Route 47". Toronto Transit Commission. Archived from the original on 24 October 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2018.

External links

Media related to Yorkdale Bus Terminal at Wikimedia Commons

• GO Transit station page for Yorkdale Bus Terminal