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Bloor-yonge (Ttc)Bloor-Yonge is a station on the Yonge-University Spadina line and the Bloor-Danforth Line of the Toronto subway. It is located at 733 Yonge Street at Bloor Street West/East. It opened in 1954. Nearby landmarks include the Toronto Reference Library and the northern end of the Yonge Street Strip. The only bus route that serves Bloor-Yonge is the 97 Yonge. The station was originally simply named "Bloor", and connected with a pair of enclosed platforms in the center of Bloor Street to allow interchange with Bloor streetcars within the fare-paid zone. When the Bloor-Danforth subway opened (replacing the streetcars) in 1966, the station was renamed "Bloor-Yonge"; but actual platform signs show "Bloor" on the Yonge-University-Spadina line and "Yonge" on the Bloor-Danforth Line, following the style common in New York City. It is the only TTC station named in this way. The Bloor-Danforth tracks cross under this line. Bloor is one of the busiest stations in the system, and in 1992 the TTC took advantage of building construction over the station to open it out and widen the platforms. This was actually the first stage of a plan to eventually enable trains to open their doors on both sides: the tracks would next have been slewed outwards within the widened station, and a central platform built between them. The TTC does not currently intend to proceed with this, as it would require closing the station for many months. After leaving the station on the Yonge-University Spadina line and crossing under Church Street in tunnel, the line returns to the surface, mostly in open cut, for some 800 metres. Immediately before the station on the Bloor-Danforth Line, the second pair of connecting tracks from the Yonge-University Spadina line (from the University section) join onto the running lines from the inside. Within the station, the Yonge section of the Yonge-University-Spadina line crosses above this line. After the station, the line goes into bored tunnel to cross to the south side of Bloor Street.
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