Eglinton (TTC)

Not to be confused with Eglinton GO Station.

Eglinton
File:EglintonTTC.jpg The station's Vitrolite-tiled walls
Location	2190 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates
Platforms	Centre platform
Tracks	2
Connections	TTC buses
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	30 March 1954 (1954-03-30)
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	78,770
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Davisville toward Downsview Yonge–University Lawrence toward Finch Avenue toward Mount Dennis Eglinton Opens 2022 Mount Pleasant 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.

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.

The station is not related to the similarly named Eglinton GO Station, which is 14 km (9 mi) farther east along Eglinton Avenue.

Entrances

There are six entrances to the station in the surrounding area:

• an entrance at the southwest corner of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue (Canada Square)
• an accessible, automatic entrance at Yonge Street, north of Berwick Avenue, which leads directly to the subway platform level
• an entrance on the northwest corner of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue
• an entrance at 2300 Yonge Street via the food court level of the Yonge Eglinton Centre
• an entrance at the northeast corner of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue, at the TD Bank
• an entrance at the southeast corner of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue, at the CIBC

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.

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Original open air bus platforms were reached by individual stairwells from the concourse

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New bus bay area is located at ground level under the Canada Square building

Surface connections

Main article: List of Toronto Transit Commission bus routes

• 5A Avenue Rd to Queen's Park

5B to Gerrard Street

• 32A Eglinton West to Renforth Drive and Skymark Avenue

32C to Lawrence Avenue West at Jane Street via Trethewey Drive

• 34 Eglinton East to Kennedy Station
• 51 Leslie to Steeles Avenue via Leslie Station
• 54A Lawrence East to Starspray Boulevard

54B to Orton Park Drive

• 56A Leaside to Donlands Station
• 61 Avenue Rd North to Highway 401
• 97+ Yonge (Northbound and southbound routes use stops on either side of Yonge Street and do not enter the station)
• 100C Flemingdon Park to Broadview Station
• 103 Mt Pleasant North to Doncliffe Loop at Glen Echo Road
• 320 Blue Night Yonge northbound to Steeles Avenue and southbound to Queens Quay (Northbound and southbound routes use stops on either side of Yonge Street and do not enter the station)

320A northbound to York Mills Station and southbound to Queens Quay

• 332 Blue Night Eglinton West to Pearson Airport
• 334 Blue Night Eglinton East to Finch Avenue and Neilson Road via Kingston Road and Morningside Avenue
• 354 Blue Night Lawrence East to Starspray Boulevard

See also

• Yonge and Eglinton

External links

• Eglinton Station at the Toronto Transit Commission
• A photo tour and detailed history of the station are available on the Transit Toronto website