page_title: Toronto subway
section_title: Line 2 Bloor–Danforth
hierarchical_section_title: Toronto subway / History / Line 2 Bloor–Danforth
caption_attribution_description: English: Opening ceremonies of Bloor-Danforth subway line in Toronto
context_page_description: The Toronto subway is a rapid transit system serving Toronto and the neighbouring city of Vaughan in Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. It is a multimodal rail network consisting of three heavy-capacity rail lines operating predominantly underground, and one elevated medium-capacity rail line. Two light rail lines, which will operate both at-grade and underground, are under construction.
  In 1954, the TTC opened Canada's first underground rail line, then known as the "Yonge subway", under Yonge Street between Union Station and Eglinton Avenue with 12 stations. As of 2018, the network encompasses 75 stations and 76.9 kilometres of route. Over 216 million unlinked rides were completed on the system that year, and with 1.58 million riders every weekday, it is the busiest rapid transit system in Canada in terms of ridership.
context_section_description: Opened in 1966, the Bloor–Danforth subway runs east–west under or near Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue. It replaced the Bloor streetcar line (which also served Danforth Avenue). Initially, the subway line ran between Keele station and Woodbine station. In 1968, the line was extended west to Islington station and east to Warden station, and in 1980, it was further extended west to Kipling station and east to Kennedy station.
caption: Ceremonies for the opening of Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in 1966
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