Union Station Bus Terminal

Union Station Bus Terminal

Location	141 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43°38′44″N 79°22′40″W / 43.64556°N 79.37778°W / 43.64556; -79.37778Coordinates: 43°38′44″N 79°22′40″W / 43.64556°N 79.37778°W / 43.64556; -79.37778
Owned by	Metrolinx
Platforms	7 bus bays
Bus operators	GO Transit Can-ar Coach Service
Connections	Union Railway Station Union (TTC)
Construction
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	GO Transit: USBT
Fare zone	02
History
Opened	2003

The Union Station Bus Terminal is part of GO Transit's facilities at Union Station in downtown Toronto, which is the hub for GO Transit's commuter rail service. The bus terminal opened in 2003 to replace the on-street facility in front of the railway station, relieving the traffic congestion on Front Street, and to accommodate GO buses moved from the Toronto Coach Terminal. Facilities available are: ticket counter/machines, newsstand/snack bar, public washrooms and a heated waiting area.

The bus terminal is located directly across Bay Street from the railway terminal, behind the Dominion Public Building on Front Street. Jaywalking between the stations has been prevented by the installation of a barrier in the central median of Bay Street with pedestrian and wheelchair access provided by an enclosed walkway above the street to railway platform 3 and the GO Transit concourse, however this is regularly ignored by jaywalkers. There is also direct stairway access to railway platforms 4 through 13 via the adjoining "teamway" under the railway tracks.

The site of the Union Station Bus Terminal was once occupied by a small passenger depot and more recently former CP Express & Transport building. Most of the old structure was demolished with a dock door retained and limestone fascia stored.^[1] The bus terminal sees an average of 7,000 passengers on week days.

Bus routes

One bus, the Hamilton Express, serves this terminal throughout the day, while other routes are connected to the rail corridors, with no bus service during the weekday peak hours, when the trains are in operation. Due to height restrictions within the terminal preventing the use of double-decker vehicles, all buses plying these routes are single-decker coach buses.

View of bus platforms

Platform assignments: 41 - Unloading; 42 - Hamilton Express via QEW (route 16)^[2]; 43 - Milton GO line corridor stations, Lisgar, Erindale, Streetsville ^[3]; 44 - Square One Bus Terminal; 45 - Richmond Hill GO line corridor stations ^[4]; 46 - Barrie GO line corridor stations/Newmarket Bus Terminal ^[5]; 47 - Stouffville GO line corridor stations/Uxbridge^[6] and Georgetown/Brampton

Connections

Railway services GO Transit, Via Rail and Amtrak are at the adjoining Union Railway Station.

Local Toronto Transit Commission services use Union Subway Station for the Yonge–University–Spadina subway line and streetcar routes 509 Harbourfront and 510 Spadina. TTC bus routes 6 Bay ^[7] and 72 Pape ^[8] use curbside stops on the streets nearby.

Relocation

Metrolinx announced plans to move the current terminal to a new complex located to the south of the current location, on the opposite side of the rail corridor, by 2018.^[9] This new terminal, which will expand capacity from 7 to 14 bays and be able to accommodate GO's fleet of double-decker buses, will be housed in a complex of office towers and elevated park over the rail corridor. The relocation of intercity bus service, such as Greyhound and Coach Canada, from the Toronto Coach Terminal to the new station is under negotiation.^[10]

References

↑ CP Express Building Demolition - Union Station Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Hamilton QEW GO Bus Schedule Archived January 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Milton GO Train & Bus Schedule Archived September 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Richmond Hill GO Train & Bus Schedule Archived December 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Barrie GO Train & Bus Schedule Archived December 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Stouffville GO Train & Bus Schedule Archived January 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ TTC Route 6 Bay
↑ TTC Route 72 Pape
↑ "Union Station gets new GO bus terminal as part of office tower development". CBC News. Sep 30, 2014. Retrieved September 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "45 BAY & UNION STATION GO BUS TERMINAL REDEVELOPMENT SITE PLAN APPLICATION" (PDF). 2014-09-24. Retrieved 2014-05-31.

External links

Media related to Union Station Bus Terminal at Wikimedia Commons

GO Transit

Lakeshore West line	Union Exhibition Mimico Long Branch Port Credit Clarkson Oakville Bronte Appleby Burlington Aldershot Hamilton West Harbour Confederation ^† Grimsby ^† St. Catharines ^‡ Niagara Falls ^‡

Milton line	Union Kipling Dixie Cooksville Erindale Streetsville Meadowvale Lisgar Milton

Kitchener line	Union Liberty Village ^† Bloor St Clair ^† Mount Dennis ^† Weston Etobicoke North Malton Bramalea Brampton Mount Pleasant Georgetown Acton Guelph Breslau ^† Kitchener (Kitchener Central ^†)

Barrie line	Union Spadina ^† Lansdowne ^† Caledonia ^† York University (Downsview Park ^†) Rutherford Maple Kirby ^† King City Aurora Mulock ^† Newmarket East Gwillimbury Bradford Innisfil ^† Barrie South Allandale Waterfront

Richmond Hill line	Union Oriole Old Cummer Langstaff Richmond Hill Gormley Bloomington ^†

Stouffville line	Union Danforth Kennedy Lawrence East ^† Agincourt Finch East ^† Milliken Unionville Centennial Markham Mount Joy Stouffville Lincolnville

Lakeshore East line	Union Danforth Scarborough Eglinton Guildwood Rouge Hill Pickering Ajax Whitby Oshawa Thornton's Corners ^† Oshawa Central ^† Darlington ^† Bowmanville ^†

Union Pearson Express	Union Bloor Weston Pearson Airport

Bus terminals	Ajax Barrie Bramalea Brampton Erin Mills Finch Kitchener McMaster Newmarket Oshawa Renforth Gateway ^† Richmond Hill Centre Scarborough Centre Square One Union Winston Churchill ^† Yorkdale York Mills

Miscellaneous	History Fares Park and ride Infrastructure Willowbrook Yard Bombardier BiLevel Coach MPI MP40PH-3C GO-ALRT Bus routes

See also	Metrolinx Presto card The Big Move

† - Future station ‡ - Limited excursion train service

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