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Kennedy is a Toronto subway station system that is the eastern terminus of Line 2 Bloor–Danforth. 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 accessibility 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. The future of TTC’s Line 3 Scarborough (SRT)
Construction to expand the station began in 2017 to add a platform for the future Line 5 Eglinton, which will terminate at the station when its first phase opens.
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.
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.
Although Line 3 trains had bidirectionally operated metro trains, the tracks for Line 3 extended beyond the top-floor platform into an above-ground balloon 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 Innovia Metro 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.
As part of a program to install artworks at major interchange stations along Line 5 Eglinton, Kennedy station will feature two new artworks when the line opens. A mural titled Reorganization of One Hedge by artist Dagmara Genda will consist of photographs of leaves taken from the same hedge that will be printed on the glass of a skylight. A second artwork, titled Locations of Meaning by artist Joseph Kosuth, will consist of etched tiles with stainless steel inserts, each spelling the word "meaning" in one of 72 languages used in Toronto.
While the subway is closed, passengers may board buses outside the station near Transway Crescent. TTC routes serving the station include:
| 1 ! colspan="3" | Unloading only | |
| 2 !34A | Eglinton East | Westbound to Eglinton station |
| 3 !12A | Kingston Road | Westbound to Victoria Park station via Brimley Road and Variety Village |
| 4 !86A | Scarborough | Eastbound to Toronto Zoo |
| 5 !905A | Eglinton East Express | Eastbound to Conlins Road via U of T Scarborough |
| 6 ! colspan="3" rowspan="5" | Under construction | |
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| 11 !903A | Kennedy Station–Scarborough Express | Northbound to Centennial College via Scarborough Centre station |
| 12 !38A | Highland Creek | Eastbound to Rouge Hill GO Station via Scarborough Centre station |
| 13 !20 | Cliffside | Westbound to Main Street station |
| 14 !21C | Brimley | Northbound to Steeles Avenue via Scarborough Centre station |
| 15 !129A | McCowan North | Northbound to Major Mackenzie Drive East via Scarborough Centre station |
| 16 !43A | Kennedy | Northbound to Steeles Avenue East |
| 17 ! | Layover Spot | |
| 18 ! | Layover Spot | |
| !34Eglinton | Westbound to Mount Dennis station To replace all branches of current bus route 34 Eglinton East |
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