# Highway 407 station

Highway 407 is a Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway. It is located at the southwest quadrant of the Jane Street and Highway 407 interchange, in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is one of two Toronto subway stations that are outside the City of Toronto, the other being Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station.

## Description

The design team for the station was AECOM as the prime consultant, Aedas as design architect, and Parsons Brinckerhoff as design engineers. The station is an intermodal transit facility providing connections to York Region Transit (YRT), GO Transit buses, and Ontario Northland intercity coaches. It will also connect to a future Highway 407 Transitway. The station has a 550-space commuter parking lot and a large 18-bay regional bus terminal. This station has been engineered and positioned for the construction of underground bus platforms for the proposed Highway 407 Transitway. The station has an open design, particularly to the east overlooking the Black Creek. Due to structural elements related to the water table, the centre platform has no columns, with all weight being transferred to the sides to counter buoyancy. The station has a metal cool roof to reflect heat from the sun.
Toronto artist David Pearl designed the artwork titled Sky Ellipse consisting of multi-coloured glass panels for the subway skylights and the western bus terminal glass facade. The panels show moving projections of colour. Sunlight filters down to platform level.

## History

The station opened as part of the Toronto–York Spadina subway extension (TYSSE) on December 17, 2017. On November 27, 2009, the official groundbreaking ceremony was held for the extension and major tunnelling operations began in June 2011. The excavated station box was used to launch the tunnel boring machines north towards Highway 7 and south towards Steeles Avenue.
While Highway 407, along with the five other TYSSE stations, had a fare booth installed as per original station plans, the booth never housed collectors as the station was among the first eight to discontinue sales of legacy TTC fare media. Presto vending machines were available at the station's opening to sell Presto cards and to load funds or monthly passes onto them. On May 3, 2019, this station became one of the first ten stations to sell Presto tickets via Presto vending machines.
In 2018, Highway 407 station had the second-lowest usage of the six new stations along the extension, at 3,400 people per weekday. The lowest was 2,500 people per weekday at Downsview Park station, and the highest was 34,100 people per weekday at York University. However, after GO bus routes were changed to terminate at Highway 407 station instead of the York University campus, usage at Highway 407 station was expected to increase, as much of the ridership at this station comes from York University students and staff transferring from GO buses. Consequently in 2019, the station saw a surge in usage, with 13,956 people using it per weekday. However, as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, ridership dropped dramatically, and had yet to recover to 2019 levels by 2024, where numbers still stood at only 7,649.

## Fare zone

To avoid implementing a payment-on-exit system, the station is part of the Toronto TTC fare zone despite being located in York Region. This is in contrast to TTC-contracted bus routes, where riders are required to pay extra fare (for YRT) when travelling beyond the municipal boundary at Steeles Avenue. This is analogous to the situation in 1968, when the TTC had an internal fare zone system and "Zone 2" fares were charged when crossing the zones on surface routes, yet no extra fare was required to reach five new subway stations which opened outside the pre-amalgamation Toronto city limits in Zone 2 that year. Zone 2 fares were charged, however, when transferring to connecting bus routes in the suburban municipalities of Metropolitan Toronto. Similarly, at this station (as well as at the adjacent Vaughan Metropolitan Centre), separate fares are charged when transferring between the TTC subway and connecting regional transit buses, such as YRT, which are the only surface routes serving it.
Between January 2018 and March 2020, there was a $1.50 fare discount for GO bus riders transferring to or from the TTC subway if paying a single fare by Presto card. A GTA-wide fare integration program, which began on February 26, 2024, enabled free or discounted transfers between GO Transit, YRT buses and the TTC subway via the Presto card or contactless credit and debit cards.

## Highway 407 Bus Terminal

There are no connecting TTC buses at this station but the regional bus terminal (located within the same building but outside the station's TTC fare-paid area) serves YRT, GO Transit, and Ontario Northland bus routes. It is the only regional bus terminal serving a TTC subway station that is part of the main station building and is the largest bus terminal in the GO Transit system with 18 bays (5 for YRT and 13 for GO Transit) plus 17 layover bays. It includes a GO customer service counter, Presto and GO ticket vending machines, and washrooms.
YRT routes serving the terminal:
| Route | Name | Additional information |
| 20 | Jane | Northbound to Teston Road via Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station, Vaughan Mills Terminal, and Major Mackenzie West Terminal; southbound to Pioneer Village station |
| 320 | Jane Express | Northbound to Major Mackenzie West Terminal via Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station and Vaughan Mills Terminal |
| 361 | Nashville Express | Northbound to Major Mackenzie Drive via Highways 407 and 427 (Rush hour service) |
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GO Transit routes serving the terminal:
| Route | Name | Additional information |
| 40 | Hamilton / Richmond Hill | Westbound to Hamilton GO Centre via Mississauga Transitway and Toronto Pearson International Airport; eastbound to Richmond Hill Centre |
| 41 | 407 West | Westbound to Hamilton GO Centre; eastbound to Pickering GO Station Weekdays only |
| 41A | 407 West | Westbound to Square One Bus Terminal; eastbound to Pickering GO Station Weekdays only |
| 47 | 407 West | To Hamilton GO Centre |
| 47D | 407 West | To Bramalea GO Seasonal weekday express |
| 48 | 407 West | To University of Guelph Weekdays only |
| 52 | 407 East | To Oshawa GO Station Weekends only |
| 54 | 407 East | To Mount Joy GO Station Weekdays only |
| 56 | 407 East | Westbound to Oakville GO Station; eastbound to Oshawa GO Station Weekdays only |
| 56A | 407 East | Westbound to Square One Bus Terminal; eastbound to Oshawa GO Station Weekday express |
| 56B | 407 East | To Oakville GO Station Weekdays only |
| 66 | Barrie | To East Gwillimbury GO Station Weekdays only |
Ontario Northland also serves the station with two daily northbound and two daily southbound trips on its Toronto–North Bay route, as well as two daily trips in each direction from Toronto–Sudbury.