Lawrence is a subway station on the Yonge–University line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located under Yonge Street at Lawrence Avenue, in the Bedford Park, Lawrence Park and Lytton Park neighbourhoods.The station is on four levels, all the entrances to the station are at street level, the concourse and collector level is on the second level, the bus platform is on the third level, and the subway platform is on the lower level.EntrancesThere are four entrances to the station located in the surrounding area: an entrance on Lawrence Avenue, west of Yonge Street an entrance on Lawrence Avenue, east of Yonge Street an automatic entrance at Bedford Park Avenue, which leads directly to the subway platform level an automatic entrance at Ranleigh Avenue, which leads directly to the subway platform levelHistoryLawrence Station was opened in 1973 as an intermediate stop between Eglinton, the former northern terminus of the Yonge line, and York Mills, which acted as a temporary terminus for a year until the subway was further extended to Finch. Lawrence was the first station on the network to feature an underground bus terminal (York Mills, St. Clair West, and Don Mills are the others). It is still one of Toronto’s deepest stations.
