Groundbreaking for future Ontario Line Pape connection

Pape Station construction enters a new phase to support excavation work.

July 16 – An Ontario Line connection at TTC’s Pape Station will bring more transit options to the city’s east end. 

We’re making progress on this important interchange.

This week, crews broke ground on the future Ontario Line connection at Pape Station.

Following the completion of important prep work to clear the site for major construction, teams are now installing foundational supports to reinforce the soil and prepare for excavation. 

Before digging can begin, a strong and stable perimeter needs to be built around the excavation site. At Pape, this involves digging deep and narrow trenches into the ground, inserting steel reinforcement cages into them and filling them with concrete. Not only does this create a safe and stable site for excavation, it also creates the walls of the future underground station structure.

Construction is underway across the Ontario Line, with crews preparing for excavation at all downtown station sites by installing new support walls. In the east end, major bridge work is underway along the existing above-ground rail corridor where the Ontario Line will run, and sites are being cleared to prepare for future major construction in the north end, including on the new Thorncliffe Park Station.

During the busiest travel hour, the future interchange station is expected to serve 10,200 riders and facilitate 9,100 transfers between the Ontario Line, Line 2 subway service, and popular bus routes like the 25 Don Mills and 72 Pape.  

Once complete, the Ontario Line will make it faster and easier to travel across the city – a trip from Pape and Danforth to Queen and University will take less than half the time, from 25 minutes to 12 minutes. 

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