User:Radagast/List of Eglinton Crosstown stations

The forthcoming Eglinton Crosstown line, a rapid-transit service being built by Metrolinx to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) within its network, is currently under construction along Eglinton Avenue in Toronto. It is planned to have 25 stations; 15 of these will be fully separated from road traffic like the city's subway system, the remaining ten will be at-grade stops accessed in the road's median. 22 stations will be built wholly new, while three will be an expansion of existing stations in the TTC's network.

All stations will be wheelchair-accessible in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act; each terminus and junction station is expected to have public washrooms. Current safety standards require each underground station to have two different exits; in practice, this will mean most will also have two entrances (though rarely more than one will be both accessible and staffed).

The list below names the stations running west to east. Some names may yet change before the line opens.

Mount Dennis

This station will be primarily underground. A new surface station will be built to access the GO Transit Kitchener line; the Union Pearson Express may also add a stop here.

The primary entrance will face Weston Road (replacing a Scotiabank branch), with access also available from the rail platforms, the bus bays, and a secondary entrance on Eglinton below the Photography Drive bridge.

Between this station and Municipal Drive, the line will run on an elevated viaduct completely separate from road traffic; it will then enter a tunnel, where it remains until east of Laird Drive.

Keele

Whether this station will be renamed to avoid confusion with the existing Keele station remains to be determined.

Caledonia

This station is mainly underground, though an enclosed pedestrian bridge will pass above the GO Transit Barrie line (with the potential for access to be built to a new station on that line; such a station is not in the initial construction plans). The main entrance and bus loop will be opposite Blackthorn Avenue and adjacent to the West Side Mall; the secondary entrance will be near Croham Road, across the previously mentoned pedestrian bridge. An emergency exit and vent-shaft structure will be located closer to the Gabian Way corner. Though named for Caledonia Road, that intersection is some 200m to the east of the station.

Destinations include the West Side Mall, the western end of the Beltline Trail, and Prospect Cemetery.

Dufferin

Oakwood

Eglinton West

This underground station will be an addition to the existing Yonge–University–Spadina line Eglinton West station. A rename, to Eglinton West-Allen, is likely.

The Crosstown tracks will pass below the subway tunnels. New entrances will be built to the east and west of Allen Road on the north side of Eglinton; the west entrance will have an elevator. The existing main entrance and bus loop, in the Allen median, will remain. A possible fourth entrance, located on the west side of Everden Road just south of Eglinton, may be built in future.

Bathurst

Whether this station will be renamed to avoid confusion with the existing Bathurst station remains to be determined.

Chaplin

Avenue

Eglinton

This underground station will be an addition to the existing Yonge–University–Spadina line Eglinton station. A rename, to Eglinton-Yonge, is possible.

The Crosstown will pass below the subway tunnels. The existing station will be bolstered with a new main entrance just west of the Canada Square building on the southwest corner of the Yonge-Eglinton intersection, on land once occupied by the former Eglinton Station bus loops. A new secondary entrance will also go in on the northwest corner, facing Yonge near the Pharma Plus entrance to the Yonge Eglinton Centre complex.

Mount Pleasant

Bayview

Laird

Leslie

The westernmost of the at-grade stops, both side platforms for this location will be in the Eglinton median, just east of the Leslie Street intersection.

Destinations include the many natural and park lands of the Don River West Branch valley, such as E.T. Seton Park, Serena Gundy Park, Wilket Creek Park, Sunnybrook Park, and Edwards Gardens.

This stop was not included in some versions of the Crosstown plan; given that both stations on either side of it are underground, it was thought a continuous tunnel from Laird to Don Mills could be dug (in which case a Leslie station would be skipped, given the higher cost for its expected ridership). However the cost of even a tunnel through this area, given the low geography of the Don River West Branch, proved preventative and a surface alignment was given final approval.

Don Mills

Ferrand

The Ferrand stop will have both its side platforms in the Eglinton median, just west of the intersection with the Don Valley Parkway southbound ramps. Though named for Ferrand Drive, whose residents will be in walking distance, that street does not intersect with Eglinton.

Wynford

This stop will be based around a new pedestrian crosswalk which will cross Eglinton just east of its bridge over Wynford Drive. Each of its side platforms will be on opposite sides of that crosswalk; eastbound to the east, westbound to the west.

While the GO Transit Richmond Hill line crosses under Eglinton just over 250m east of the stop, no contingency has yet been made for a potential multimodal station on that line.

Bermondsey

This stop's centre platform will be just east of the Bermondsey Road/Sloane Avenue intersection.

Victoria Park

This stop's side platforms will run the full length of the Eglinton median between Victoria Park Road and O'Connor Drive.

Pharmacy

This stop's side platforms will be just east of the Pharmacy Road intersection.

Lebovic

Each of this stop's side platforms will be on opposite sides of the Lebovic Avenue/Hakimi Avenue intersection; eastbound to the east, westbound to the west.

Warden

Each of this stop's side platforms will be on opposite sides of the Warden Avenue intersection; eastbound to the east, westbound to the west.

Birchmount

This stop's side platforms will be just east of the Birchmount Road intersection.

Ionview

This stop's side platforms will be just west of the Ionview Road intersection.

Kennedy

The eastern terminus, meeting with the Bloor–Danforth line and Scarborough RT, has always been planned to be grade-separated.

Current plans for the Scarborough RT call for it to be replaced by an extension of the Bloor–Danforth line; under that scenario, the Crosstown terminates underground, with a new centre platform for it just north of, and nearly parallel to, the subway platform. Tunnels connect to a new western entrance as well as the existing TTC infrastructure; future plans call for tunnels under the rail tracks for easier connections to GO service.

Other scenarios, where the Scarborough RT alignment is retained for use by LRT systems, have the Crosstown terminate on the existing elevated RT platform, and possibly interlining with the SRT replacement service.

The existing Kennedy station of the GO Transit Stouffville line is adjacent to the TTC station.

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The Crosstown stations and stops