Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal

Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal is a regional and intercity bus terminal in Scarborough City Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located adjacent to its namesake rapid transit station on Line 3 Scarborough of the Toronto subway. It is served by GO Transit buses, Megabus (Coach Canada), TOK, and other private coach services. The terminal is adjacent to the Scarborough Town Centre shopping mall and the Scarborough Civic Centre.

Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal
General information
Location300 Borough Drive,
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
Coordinates43°46′29″N 79°15′24″W
Owned byCity of Toronto
Bus stands6
Bus operators GO Transit
TOK Coachlines
Megabus (Coach Canada)
Connections Scarborough Centre
Other information
Station codeGO Transit: SCAR
History
Opened1985

Line 3 Scarborough is expected to close permanently in 2023, and be replaced, initially with TTC buses until the extension of Line 2 Bloor-Danforth to Sheppard and McCowan in Scarborough opens for revenue service. Thus, the TTC will require more space to handle replacement buses, and will require GO Transit and intercity buses to vacate the Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal by the end of the third quarter of 2022 so that the area can be reconfigured for more TTC buses. The temporary location for regional and intercity buses will be on the west side of Scarborough Town Centre. A new Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal is expected to be built in 2030 east of Scarborough Town Centre as part of the planned Scarborough Centre station on the Scarborough extension of Line 2 Bloor–Danforth. The new bus terminal will also be the eastern terminal of the proposed Durham–Scarborough bus rapid transit corridor.[1][2][3]

Operators

GO Transit
GO Transit MCI bus at the terminal

TOK Coachlines
  • TOK Coachlines (formerly Can-ar Coach Service) provides service to Lindsay and Haliburton[8]

Megabus

Nearby landmarks

Located in Scarborough's city centre, nearby landmarks include Scarborough Town Centre shopping mall, the Scarborough Civic Centre, Albert Campbell Square, the Canada Centre government offices, Consilium Place and the Scarborough YMCA.

Future

Temporary terminal

After the closing of the current regional bus terminal, regional and inter-city buses will operate out of a temporary on-street terminal until the new terminal is opened at the new Scarborough Centre station. The temporary terminal will have six bus bays located on the east side of Borough Drive between Progress Avenue and Triton Road. The terminal location is near the west side of Scarborough Town Centre (the shopping centre). TTC bus routes 21 Brimley and 43 Kennedy have stops within 50 to 250 metres from the temporary terminal. Construction of the temporary terminal will begin in the summer of 2022; the terminal will open in the fall of 2022 when the current terminal must be vacated.[3]

New terminal

After the opening of the Scarborough Subway Extension, the bus station will be relocated to the new Scarborough Centre station, which will be located on the east side of McCowan Road, north of the Line 3 right-of-way next to the site of McCowan station.[3]

See also

References
  1. "Line 3 Bus Replacement Study Update" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. September 15, 2021.
  2. "Search begins for teams interested in building Scarborough Subway Extension stations". Metrolinx. September 17, 2021. Archived from the original on September 18, 2021. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
  3. "Scarborough Centre GO Bus Platform Relocation - LIVE Event". Metrolinx. October 27, 2021. pp. 00:21:00:00–00:32:30.
  4. "Table 52 Hwy 407 East GO Bus" (PDF).
  5. Mackenzie, Robert (September 4, 2020). "GO revises routes and services, September 5". Transit Toronto. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
  6. "Table 93 Durham College & UOIT/Scarborough Express Bus" (PDF).
  7. "Table 96 Oshawa/Finch Bus" (PDF).
  8. TOK Coachlines - Scheduled Services
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.