Eglinton (TTC)

Not to be confused with Eglinton GO Station.
Eglinton
Location 2190 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Coordinates 43°42′21″N 79°23′54″W / 43.70583°N 79.39833°W / 43.70583; -79.39833Coordinates: 43°42′21″N 79°23′54″W / 43.70583°N 79.39833°W / 43.70583; -79.39833
Platforms Centre platform
Tracks 2
Connections
Construction
Structure type Underground
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened 30 March 1954 (1954-03-30)
Traffic
Passengers (2014[1]) 77,530
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station
toward Downsview
 Yonge–University
toward Finch
toward Mount Dennis
 Eglinton
Opens 2021
toward Kennedy

Eglinton is a subway station on the Yonge–University line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located at the southwest corner of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue West. It is one of the larger stations of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), with several shops located on the concourse level. It is the busiest station that is not a line terminus or a major transfer point with another line or transit system.

The station is on three levels, all six entrances are scattered throughout the street level in the surrounding area of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue, the concourse and collector is on the second level, and the subway platform is on the lower level.[2]

Overview

The tracks approach the station from the south in open cut before going underground at the Berwick Portal, immediately before the station. Here the tracks divide sharply to go either side of the island platform. North of the station the line swings to the east, to run directly under Yonge Street in a bored tunnel.

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.

Nearby destinations include Eglinton Park, TVOntario studios, head offices of the Canadian Tire Corporation, the Yonge-Eglinton Centre, Minto Midtown, and the Canada Square Complex which is built directly over the station.

Tourists staying in downtown Toronto wishing to travel to the Ontario Science Centre usually take the subway to this station and take the 34 Eglinton East bus to Don Mills Road to reach the destination.

Entrances

There are seven entrances to the station in the surrounding area:[2]

History

Eglinton Station opened in 1954 as the northern terminus of the original Yonge subway line. All of the stations on this section of the line used similar vitreous marble wall tiles, with variations in colour schemes. Eglinton is the only one to retain its original tiles, which had not deteriorated, unlike the other stations.

In 2004, this station became accessible with elevators.

Metrolinx is building the new Eglinton Crosstown line, running along Eglinton Avenue from Mount Dennis to Kennedy Station, passing through Eglinton Station and Eglinton West Station on the way.

As part of the work to connect the Crosstown platform, it has been proposed that the current Yonge-line platform be shifted approximately 70m northward of its current location; this will allow smoother flows of passenger traffic between the platforms, and avoid a situation where all transferring passengers are bottlenecked by only one transfer path, similar to the busy Bloor-Yonge station.[3]

Original open air bus platforms were reached by individual stairwells from the concourse
New bus bay area is located at ground level under the Canada Square building

On November 17, 2016, Eglinton station is the last station on Line 1 to be Presto enabled, which means all of the stations along Line 1 are Presto enabled. [4]

Surface connections

5B to Gerrard Street
32C to Lawrence Avenue West at Jane Street via Trethewey Drive
54B to Orton Park Drive
320A northbound to York Mills Station and southbound to Queens Quay

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Subway ridership, 2014" (PDF). Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved September 12, 2015. This table shows the typical number of customer-trips made on each subway on an average weekday and the typical number of customers travelling to and from each station platform on an average weekday.
  2. 1 2 "TTC Eglinton Station". Toronto Transit Commission. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  3. ↑ Munro, Steve. "Crosstown LRT Interchanges with the Yonge-University-Spadina Subway". Archived from the original on 2015-03-04. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  4. ↑ https://twitter.com/PRESTOcard/status/799287911317381120

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