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rebuilt from original lot first municipal parking garage in 1956 holly dunfield garage carpark 29 460 spaces air canada centre lot carpark 32 330 spaces dundas square garage carpark 34 270 spaces 40 larch street garage carpark 150 357 spaces city hall parking garage carpark 36 2086 spaces with total 2 400 used by city of toronto for municipal fleet is one of the world s largest underground garage castlefield ave. lot carpark 39 133 spaces st. lawrence garage carpark 43 2008 spaces roehampton ave. lot carpark 49 126 spaces university ave. garage carpark 52 323 spaces bloor bedford garage carpark 58 399 spaces kensington market garage carpark 68 450 spaces larch st. garage 357 spaces st. clair yonge garage 173 spaces dragon city garage carpark 163 129 spaces yorkville lot carpark 215 175 spaces beecroft garage carpark 404 401 spaces beecroft lot carpark 410 173 spaces ttc station lots edit tpa operates suburban lots at subway and rt stations in toronto . all are outdoor lots next to or near the stations downsview station carpark 827 641 spaces eglinton west station 158 spaces carpark 806 56 carpark 807 102 ellesmere station carpark 817 68 spaces finch station 2458 spaces carpark 814 1683 carpark 813 1531 carpark 419 23 carpark 412 62 dundas west station carpark 805 221 space islington station 1499 spaces carpark 831 200 carpark 802 543 carpark 803 473 carpark 804 283 keele station carpark 805 221 spaces kennedy station 1037 spaces carpark 821 676 carpark 919 112 carpark 820 151 carpark 826 199 kipling station 1488 spaces carpark 800 564 carpark 825 72 carpark 801 852 lawrence east station carpark 818 90 spaces mccowan station 475 spaces carpark 710 214 carpark 700 261 wilson station 2257 spaces carpark 811 932 carpark 810 645 carpark 829 72 carpark 809 608 2257 victoria park station carpark 824 180 spaces warden station carpark 823 151 spaces york mills station carpark 812 260 spaces yorkdale station carpark 808 1144 spaces see also edit toronto police service autoshare car sharing services aligned with tpa bike share toronto bike sharing program run by tpa references edit external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to toronto parking authority . toronto parking authority retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title toronto parking authority & oldid 729127417 categories municipal government of torontoparking companiescompanies established in 19981998 establishments in ontariohidden categories articles needing additional references from march 2008all articles needing additional referencesarticles lacking in text citations from july 2010all articles lacking in text citationspages using infobox company with unsupported parameterscommons category template with no category setcommons category without a link on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 july 2016 at 02 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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