Sheppard West station

Sheppard West is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station, which is located at the southeast corner of Sheppard Avenue West-William R. Allen Road intersection, is currently the northern terminus of the western branch of the line. The station opened in 1996 in what was then the City of North York, and the Viva Orange bus rapid transit route of York Region's Viva Rapid Transit commenced service on October 16, 2005. The large commuter parking lot, accessible via Allen Road and Sheppard Avenue, opened in July 2005. On May 7, 2017, the station was renamed from Downsview to Sheppard West. This change was made in preparation for the opening of the Toronto–York Spadina Subway Extension, which is scheduled to open on December 17, 2017. When this station opened, it was among the first accessible stations of the Toronto subway. The station also features Wi-Fi service.NameThe station was officially renamed from Downsview to Sheppard West on May 7, 2017, in anticipation of the opening of the Line 1 subway extension to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. The new name was proposed in 2010 and was approved on September 28, 2012. When it was named Downsview, the station was the only one in the subway system to use mixed case lettering for the station's name on the platform walls. However, the Sheppard West name is rendered fully capitalized using the distinctive Toronto Subway typeface. A smaller type appears underneath the new station name, which reads "formerly Downsview", to ease with the transition.