Eglinton West (TTC)

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Eglinton West

Station statistics

Address

1300 Eglinton Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Coordinates

43°41′57″N 79°26′09″W / 43.699209°N 79.435819°WCoordinates: 43°41′57″N 79°26′09″W / 43.699209°N 79.435819°W

Connections

TTC buses

Structure type

underground/at grade

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Opened

28 January 1978

Architect

Arthur Erickson
Clifford & Lawrie

Accessible

Presto card

Traffic

Passengers (2011-12^[1])

21,510

Services

Preceding station		TTC		Following station
Glencairn toward Downsview		Yonge–University–Spadina		St. Clair West toward Finch
Oakwood toward Mount Dennis		Eglinton Crosstown Opens 2022		Bathurst toward Kennedy

Not to be confused with Allen (Los Angeles Metro station)

Eglinton West is a subway station on the Yonge–University–Spadina line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the median of Allen Road on the north side of Eglinton Avenue West.

As of Jan 2013, the station is wheelchair-accessible. The commuter parking lots, formerly located east and west of the station building on the north side of Eglinton Avenue, were taken out of service in December 2012, leaving no immediately adjacent parking. The lots are being used as staging areas for the tunneling machines during the construction of the Eglinton Crosstown line.^[2]

History

The station opened in 1978, as part of the subway line extension from St. George to Wilson Station.

Eglinton West Station had been planned to be an interchange station as part of the proposed Eglinton West line. This was one of the three proposed subway lines in the Network 2011 Plan created in 1985 by the Toronto Transit Commission. The project was cancelled in 1995 after the election of a Progressive Conservative government led by Mike Harris. Afterwards, the small amount of tunnel that had been dug under the station was refilled. Had the project gone ahead, this station would likely have been renamed "Eglinton West-Allen".

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 Eglinton West and Eglinton Station on the way. Mayor Rob Ford announced the cancellation of Transit City on the day that he took office.^[3] However, a redesigned Eglinton Crosstown line along with a Sheppard line extension was announced four months later, with the support of Metrolinx and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.^[4]

Architecture and art

The station was designed by Arthur Erickson and Clifford & Lawrie.^[5] The main ticketing and concourse area at surface level is sheltered by an exposed concrete space frame supported by eight circular columns. The concrete ceiling is, in effect, a large slab, and overhangs the entrance. With a glass curtain wall, it appears to float. Inside, it is coffered throughout the station, with skylights in certain areas, allowing for increased penetration of natural light. Eglinton West makes use of sandblasted concrete and brick wall finishes extensively, distinguishing it from most stations on the Yonge and Bloor-Danforth sections of the subway system, where tiles are predominant.

As the north end of the station is in Allen Road's median, the subway platform level is partly built at surface level. Designers took advantage of this and added windows at platform level. The northbound platform has regular windows, allowing for a view onto Allen Road, while windows on the opposite platform are frosted, creating the impression of fog. This combination of windows allows transit riders to view cars speeding onto Allen Road's northbound expressway lanes, while blocking views of cars stuck in traffic at Eglinton, where the road originally planned and constructed as an expressway ends.

Summertime Streetcar

The station's artwork, on two enamel murals facing each other, is Summertime Streetcar by Gerald Zeldin, which depicts the exterior of a PCC streetcar from differing distances and perspectives. The artwork is two storeys high and is located in the appropriately high ceiling section of the platform level. The depicted streetcar models have never served this station.

The south end of the station is underground as Allen Road ends here.

During July 2009, the TTC installed an $850,000 green roof over the northern end of the station to reduce maintenance costs, increase the lifespan to 40–50 years, reduce the heat island effect by lowering the temperature of the surrounding area by a few degrees, and to reduce runoff. The TTC had to repair the roof anyway, since it had been leaking since 2000. The plants atop the 835-square-metre roof are low-maintenance sedums. Victoria Park and Dufferin stations are slated to have green roofs as well.^[6]

Nearby landmarks

Nearby landmarks include the York-Eglinton BIA, Little Jamaica, and the Oakwood-Vaughan and Humewood-Cedarvale neighbourhoods.

Subway infrastructure in the vicinity

South of the station, the line continues underground below Everden Road to reach the Cedarvale Ravine, then continues southeast below the ravine. Moving northward, tracks continue on the surface, in the median of Allen Road.

Surface connections

Route 32: Eglinton West

32 to Renforth Loop

32A to Renforth and Skymark

32C to Jane & Lawrence via Trethewey

32D to Jane & Emmett

Route 63: Ossington to Liberty Village
Route 316: Ossington Blue Night to Eglinton West Stn
Route 109: Ranee

109B to Neptune via Marlee and Flemington

109C to Neptune via Marlee and Varna

References

↑ "Subway ridership, 2011-2012". Toronto Transit Commission. "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. Five stations serve two subways, and so are listed twice, once for each subway"
↑ "Eglinton West TTC commuter lots closing Dec 21st for conversion to construction staging". Metrolinx. December 17, 2012. Retrieved March 2013.
↑ Mayor Rob Ford: “Transit City is over” Toronto Life December 1, 2010
↑ "Funding questions linger after new transit plan announced" By Natalie Alcoba, National Post. March 31, 2011
↑ "Eglinton West Subway Station". TO Built. Bob Krawczyk. 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
↑ Kalinowski, Tess (2009-08-04). "Green roof takes root at Eglinton West". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2009-08-04.

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External links

Eglinton West Station at the Toronto Transit Commission

v t e Stations of the Toronto Transit Commission

1 Yonge–University–Spadina	Finch North York Centre Sheppard–Yonge ■ York Mills Lawrence Eglinton Davisville St. Clair ■ Summerhill Rosedale Bloor-Yonge ■ Wellesley College Dundas Queen King Union ■ St. Andrew Osgoode St. Patrick Queen's Park Museum St. George ■ Spadina ■ ■ Dupont St. Clair West ■ Eglinton West Glencairn Lawrence West Yorkdale Wilson Downsview (Sheppard West) Downsview Park Finch West York University Pioneer Village Highway 407 Vaughan Metropolitan Centre

2 Bloor–Danforth	Kipling Islington Royal York Old Mill Jane Runnymede High Park Keele Dundas West ■ Lansdowne Dufferin Ossington Christie Bathurst ■ Spadina ■ ■ St. George ■ Bay Bloor-Yonge ■ Sherbourne Castle Frank Broadview ■ Chester Pape Donlands Greenwood Coxwell Woodbine Main Street ■ Victoria Park Warden Kennedy ■

3 Scarborough RT	Kennedy ■ Lawrence East Ellesmere Midland Scarborough Centre McCowan

4 Sheppard	Sheppard–Yonge ■ Bayview Bessarion Leslie Don Mills

Streetcar system	Queens Quay Exhibition Loop

Legend: - wheelchair-accessible \| washroom \| ■ - connection \| proposed station

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