Eglinton (TTC)

Infobox TTC station
station=Eglinton
address=2190 Yonge Street


opened=March 30, 1954
district=Old Toronto
line=Yonge-University-Spadina line
Proposed Eglinton Crosstown LRT line
nextstation=≅2.3 km north to Lawrence 3 min≅0.8 km south to Davisville 2 min
connections=5 Avenue Road, 32 Eglinton West, 34 Eglinton East, 51 Leslie, 54 Lawrence East, 56 Leaside, 61 Avenue Road North, 97 Yonge, 100 Flemingdon Park, 103 Mt Pleasant North
nightconnections=305 Eglinton East, 307 Eglinton West, 320 Yonge, 354 Lawrence East
rank=6th busiest out of 69
dailyboardings=formatnum:TTC ridership|Eglinton
elevators=1
platforms=Centre platform
wheelchair=yes
washrooms=yes

Eglinton is a station on the Yonge-University-Spadina line of the subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is at 2190 Yonge Street at Eglinton Avenue West/East, and was opened in 1954. It has two tracks, north and southbound, and a central platform.

It is one of the larger stations on the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), and several shops are located inside including Cinnabon. Nearby landmarks include the TVOntario studios, Eglinton Park, the Yonge-Eglinton Centre, and Canada Square.

This station is used as a switchover point for subways operators who are coming off or coming on their shift. There are sometimes slight delays at this station as subway operators are being changed.

Parts of the Canada Square complex are built directly over the station. North of the station, the line changes to bored tunnel with cut-and-cover tunnel at stations. It swings to the right to run directly under Yonge Street again.

In 2004, the station's old bus transfer area (where each route had a stand, and there was a blinking light at the bottom of the staircase to signify that a bus had arrived) was put out of service. It was replaced with a bus terminal converted from a bus maintenance building directly south of the old transfer area. The facility now offers wheelchair access and all platforms are in a carbon monoxide monitored area.

Eglinton was the northern terminus of the original 1954 subway line. It is also the only one of the original Yonge stations to retain its Vitrolite tiling scheme.

On April 23 2007, TTC employee Antonio Almeida was killed in the tunnel just north of the station when a platform on their work car dislodged. [ [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/04/23/worker-death.html Toronto transit worker dies in subway tunnel accident ] ]

Surface connections

*5 Avenue Road
*32 Eglinton West
*34 Eglinton East
*51 Leslie
*54 Lawrence East
*56 Leaside
*61 Avenue Road North
*97 Yonge
*100 Flemingdon Park
*103 Mt Pleasant North

Transit City proposal

The Transit City proposal calls for a new LRT line known as the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line, running along Eglinton Avenue from Toronto Pearson International Airport and Mississauga to Kennedy Station, passing through Eglinton and Eglinton West stations on the way.

ee also

* Yonge and Eglinton

References