| Eglinton TTC Subway Station |
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| Address | 2190 Yonge Street | ||||||||||
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| Structure | underground | ||||||||||
| Platforms | centre platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 30 March 1954 | ||||||||||
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| Presto card | No | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2009-10) | 70,720 Ranked 7th of 69 |
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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. 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.
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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 landmarks include Eglinton Park, TVOntario studios, head offices of the Canadian Tire Corporation, the Yonge-Eglinton Centre, and Canada Square 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 transfer to the Eglinton East bus to reach the destination.
Eglinton Station was opened in 1954 as the northern terminus of the original Yonge subway line. Original stations on this line used a similar Vitrolite tiling scheme with variations in colour combinations, but Eglinton Station is the only one to retain its original tiles, which had not deteriorated like at the other stations with the glass tiles.
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.[1]
The Transit City plan called for a new Eglinton Crosstown LRT line, running along Eglinton Avenue from Toronto Pearson International Airport and Mississauga to Kennedy Station, passing through the station and Eglinton West Station on the way.
Mayor Rob Ford announced the cancellation of Transit City on the day that he took office.[2] However, a redesigned Eglinton–Scarborough Crosstown line along with a Sheppard line extension was announced four months later, with the support of Metrolinx and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.[3]