Kennedy is a Toronto subway station that is the eastern terminus for both Line 2 BloorâÂÂDanforth and Line 5 Eglinton. Opened in 1980, it is located east of the Kennedy Road and Eglinton Avenue intersection. With the adjacent Kennedy GO station on the Stouffville line of GO Transit, Kennedy is an intermodal transit hub and the fifth busiest station in the system, after , , , and , serving a total of approximately customer trips a day.
It was built as part of the extensions west to Kipling and east to this station. The station's main complex has four floors with wheelchair accessible entrances. The ground level is the bus terminal surrounded by ten platforms that serve 16 Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus routes. Wi-Fi service is available at this station.
Kennedy station was previously the southern terminus of Line 3 Scarborough before it was permanently closed on July 24, 2023. The line was opened in 1985. The station's bus terminal is being expanded to handle replacement buses.
Construction to expand the station began in 2017 to add a platform for Line 5 Eglinton, which opened in 2026.
The station is located south of Eglinton Avenue, east of Kennedy Road. The station complex consists of four levels. Trains of the former Line 3 Scarborough previously ascended via a bridge to the platform located at the top level of the station complex. The ground floor (third floor, but labelled 2 in the elevator) consists of ten bus platforms surrounding the main building. Three satellite pedestrian entrances to the station can be found at the South Parking Lot, next to the Don Montgomery Community Centre, and the passenger pick-up and drop-off roundabout on Transway Crescent. (A fourth entrance, at the service road of Eglinton Avenue, was demolished in 2018.) Below the ground level is the concourse that spans the length of the station, connecting to all pedestrian entrances. Below the concourse is the platform for the trains of both lines.
Four park and ride lots, that had a combined total of 729 spaces, used to be located around the station. As of August 21, 2023, these lots no longer exist.
Line 2 BloorâÂÂDanforth was opened on February 25, 1966, and was extended westwards to Warden station on May 10, 1968, and to Kennedy station on November 21, 1980.
An extension of Line 2, called the Scarborough Subway Extension, is under construction that will make Kennedy a through-station. From Kennedy station, the three-stop, extension will travel east under Eglinton Avenue, then north under Danforth Road and McCowan Road to terminate at Sheppard Avenue.
The platform walls at Kennedy were originally clad with two vertical rows of red vinyl slats separated by a black strip showing the station's name in Univers font. This cladding was replaced by grey enamelled panels using the traditional Toronto Subway font with red trim with smaller lettering along the top in a 2025 renovation, evoking the original stations along the line.
Kennedy was expanded to become the eastern terminus of Line 5 Eglinton. The Line 5 platform is also underground, south of Eglinton Avenue East, about north of the Line 2 platform.
The main entrance to Kennedy station at the southwest corner of West Service Road and Transway Crescent was demolished and replaced by a new entrance to access the expanded concourse area built as part of the Line 5 project. Two elevators connect this newer concourse area to the Line 5 platform below. Two northâÂÂsouth passages connect the Line 5 section of the concourse to the original Line 2 concourse. There were few changes to the Line 2 concourse. A secondary entrance on the east side of the GO rail corridor serves as the main entrance to the GO station.
In 1985, Kennedy station was expanded to serve Line 3 Scarborough, an elevated light metro line with six stations. In 2023, Line 3 was decommissioned and is planned to be replaced by an extension of Line 2 to Scarborough City Centre.
Although Line 3 trains had bidirectionally operated metro trains, the tracks for Line 3 extended beyond the top-floor platform into an above-ground turning loop, similar to those found on the Toronto streetcar system. This was because Line 3 had been planned as a dedicated right-of-way streetcar line rather than a metro line. As such, the top-floor platform was designed to operate streetcars. Line 3 was later built as a medium-capacity rail transport line to use the Intermediate Capacity Transit System train models built by Bombardier Transportation. The line began using two-car trains, which were able to travel along the turning loop, but was later converted to use four-car trains, which could not be operated along the tight loop. Thus, the use of the loop for reversals was discontinued after 1988, although the loop's elevated structure remains over the passenger pick-up and drop-off building and was occasionally used as a tail track to store trains. The station platform was reduced to a single track and began using the Spanish solution of unloading and boarding passengers at Kennedy. Original floor finishing and platform edge markings for the planned light rail can also be seen along the current tracks.
Kennedy station used to feature a mural titled A Sense of Place by artist Frank Perna. The mural was completed in 1997 and used to wrap around the station's main entrance, but when the entrance was demolished in 2018, half of the mural was destroyed.
As part of a program to install public art at major interchange stations along Line 5 Eglinton, two new artworks were placed at the station. Reorganization of One Hedge, by Dagmara Genda, is a mural of photographs of leaves taken from the same hedge, and printed on the glass of a skylight, and Locations of Meaning, by Joseph Kosuth, consists of etched tiles with stainless steel inserts, each spelling the word "meaning" in one of the 72 languages used in Toronto.
There are two bus platforms at Kennedy station. Platform A, within the fare-paid zone, contains bus bays 1 through 10. Bus platform B, opened on October 8, 2023, is located outside of the station building on the south side of platform A and contains bus bays 11 through 18, primarily serving buses running express to Scarborough Centre station. As of February 18, 2024, bus bays 6 through 10 are closed for construction related to the Scarborough Subway Extension.
While the subway is closed, passengers may board buses outside the station near Transway Crescent. TTC routes serving the station include: