Eglinton West subway

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The Eglinton West subway was a proposed east-west subway line in Toronto, Canada. It was to start from the existing Eglinton West station on the Toronto Transit Commission's Yonge-University-Spadina line. Work began in the 1990s, but halted in 1995 when the newly-elected Government of Ontario cancelled the project. The excavation under Eglinton West intended to be Allen Station was subsequently filled in.

A map of the Eglington West Line.
Eglinton West
Between Eglinton West and Renforth

The Eglinton West subway is no longer a priority of the TTC. Its expansion priorities are instead the extension of the Spadina subway to York University and Steeles Avenue, the replacement of the aging Scarborough RT system, the extension of the Sheppard subway to Victoria Park Avenue and Scarborough City Centre, and improvements to major bus and streetcar routes to create a network of "surface rapid transit" routes (including on Eglinton Avenue).

Contents

[edit] Proposed stations

  • Eglinton West - Allen Station
  • Dufferin North Station
  • Caledonia Station / GO Station
  • Keele North / Trethewey Station
  • York Centre Station
  • Jane North Station
  • Scarlett Station
  • Royal York North Station
  • Islington North Station
  • Kipling North Station
  • Martin Grove Station
  • Attwell-Skyway Station
  • Carlingview Station
  • Renforth Station

[edit] Allen Station

Also known as Lower Eglinton West, this station was only a partial tunnel that was filled in shortly after the line's cancellation. It would have been linked to Eglinton West station on the Yonge-University-Spadina line and the terminus of William R. Allen Road.

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