Caledonia LRT station

Caledonia
Location 2400 Eglinton Avenue West,[1]
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Coordinates 43°41′32″N 79°27′56″W / 43.69222°N 79.46556°WCoordinates: 43°41′32″N 79°27′56″W / 43.69222°N 79.46556°W
Platforms centre platform
Tracks 2
Connections TTC buses
Construction
Structure type underground
Disabled access Yes
Architect Arup Canada, DTAH,
and NORR Architects[1]
Other information
Status under construction
History
Opened expected 2020
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station
toward Mount Dennis
 Eglinton Crosstown
Opens 2020
toward Kennedy

Caledonia is an LRT station under construction on the Toronto Transit Commission's Eglinton Crosstown line.[2] It will be located a few blocks west of Caledonia Road on Eglinton Avenue. It is scheduled to open in 2020.

The station is designed to accommodate a future stop on the GO Transit Barrie line. In an April 2015 press release, Metrolinx stated plans to undertake an environmental assessment at the site.[3]

The station's headwalls were tunneled through in April 2014.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Caledonia Crosstown Station : Urban Toronto". Urban Toronto. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "Caledonia Station : Crosstown". Eglinton Crosstown. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Metrolinx moving forward with plans for Caledonia GO Station" (Press release). Canada News Wire. 24 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Oliver Moore (2014-04-29). "Underground for now, construction proceeds on Eglinton LRT". Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2014-04-01. Retrieved 2015-01-22. Headwalls that will form the box of the stations have been installed at Keele Street and Caledonia Road, and work is under way on one at Dufferin Street. The TBMs go right through headwalls after they have been built, in order to ensure a tight seal, and the two at work in this area are now on either side of what will eventually be the Caledonia LRT station.
  5. ↑ Rahul Gupta (2014-05-09). "Eglinton LRT: Construction activity well underway on both sides of Allen Road". Inside Toronto. Archived from the original on 2015-01-23. Retrieved 2015-01-22. Digging 50 feet below street level, the 81-metre long TBMs nicknamed Dennis and Lea are currently located in the vicinity of Caledonia Road, one of 12 underground Crosstown stations planned for the route. They are expected to reach the Allen later this year, when they will be redeployed beyond Eglinton West subway station to continue the dig east towards Yonge Street.
  6. ↑ Tim Alamenciak (2014-04-30). "Eglinton Crosstown LRT back on schedule, engineer says". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2014-08-03. Retrieved 2015-01-22. “It’s a seemingly simple process that’s actually very high tech,” said Kramer. The first of the two tunneling machines (dubbed Dennis) entered the ground June of 2013 and has made it to Caledonia Rd. from its starting point at Black Creek Dr. The other machine, Lea, is just behind.

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