Mount Dennis station

Mount Dennis
Old Kodak building nine on the north side of Eglinton Ave. with GO Transit lines crossing on the bridge in front
Coordinates	43°41′15″N 79°29′14″W / 43.68750°N 79.48722°W / 43.68750; -79.48722Coordinates: 43°41′15″N 79°29′14″W / 43.68750°N 79.48722°W / 43.68750; -79.48722
Tracks	2 TTC 4 GO Transit
Connections	TTC buses
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Status	Under construction
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Terminus Eglinton Opens 2022 Keelesdale toward Kennedy Preceding station   GO Transit   Following station Weston toward Kitchener Kitchener Opens 2022 Bloor toward Union Station Union Pearson Express Weston toward Pearson Airport UP Express Opens 2022 Bloor toward Union Station

Mount Dennis is an intermodal transit terminal under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located east of the intersection of Eglinton Avenue and Weston Road in the Mount Dennis neighbourhood in the district of York, the station will be the western terminus of the future Line 5 Eglinton as well as an intermediate station on the GO Transit Kitchener line and Union Pearson Express^[1] The station has been designated as one of many "mobility hubs" in Greater Toronto.^[2]

The station is being built on the lands formerly known as Kodak Heights, which was a camera manufacturing facility operated by the Eastman Kodak Company from 1918 to 2006.^[3] Adjacent to the station, the Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facility will also be located on the lands.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

Station design

A draft prepared on April 10, 2013 established four designs for the station.^[8] In all the designs the underground LRT platform will be 150 metres long—long enough for four vehicle trainsets. Two designs placed the bus platform on the north side of Eglinton, accessed through a 230-metre pedestrian tunnel. In the other two designs the bus platform(s) were on the south side of Eglinton, accessed through a 260-metre pedestrian tunnel.

By 2016, the finalized design placed the bus loop on the north side of the station, accessed by a relocated Photography Drive bridge that crosses Eglinton further to the east than the old bridge. This roadway would pass east of the renovated Kodak building, which would form the station's secondary entrance.

The main entrance would be on the west side of the rail corridor, while a third entrance would be at street level facing Eglinton, between the rail bridges and the Photography Drive bridge. The LRT platform would have a glass wall allowing natural light into the space.

East of the station, the LRT line would travel on an elevated guideway above Black Creek Drive and Black Creek itself, before descending into the western portal of the line's bored tunnel, towards Keelesdale Station.^[9]

References

1. ↑ "Mount Dennis Mobility Hub Study" (PDF). Metrolinx. Retrieved 2016-08-11. 
2. ↑ "Eglinton-Mount Dennis Mobility Hub". Metrolinx. Retrieved 2015-08-10. 
3. ↑ James Armstrong (2013-09-13). "Community wants to preserve Kodak building while Metrolinx plans LRT station". Toronto: Global News. Archived from the original on 2013-09-15. 
4. ↑ John Lorinc (2012-11-23). "Down (but not out) Mount Dennis area pins hopes on Metrolinx". Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-03-28. 
5. ↑ Rahul Gupta (2012-12-12). "Meeting to provide details on LRT station in Mount Dennis". York Guardian. Archived from the original on 2013-03-29. The Mount Dennis underground stop at Weston Road would serve as the line’s western terminus point, said Metrolinx spokesperson Jamie Robinson on Friday, Dec. 7. 
6. ↑ James Bow (2013-09-04). "Future Mount Dennis Station (Kitchener Line/Eglinton LRT)". Transit Toronto. Retrieved 2013-09-08. The connection was given new life with the launch of Eglinton LRT, operating from Jane Street east to Kennedy. A stop near Black Creek Drive would include a connection with the GO Kitchener line and a new stop on the Union Pearson Express. 
7. ↑ Tess Kalinowski (2010-02-16). "Residents ask TTC for LRT tunnel through Mount Dennis". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2014-11-22. 
8. 1 2 "background file" (PDF). City of Toronto. 2013-04-10. Retrieved 2013-09-16. 
9. ↑ "Mount Dennis Station Open House". Metrolinx. Retrieved 27 May 2016. 

Stations, stops and loops of the Toronto Transit Commission
Yonge–University	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 (Cedarvale) Glencairn Lawrence West Yorkdale Wilson Downsview (Sheppard West) Downsview Park Finch West York University Pioneer Village Highway 407 Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
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
Scarborough	Kennedy Lawrence East Ellesmere Midland Scarborough Centre McCowan
Sheppard	Sheppard–Yonge Bayview Bessarion Leslie Don Mills
Eglinton	Mount Dennis Keelesdale Caledonia Fairbank Oakwood Eglinton West (Cedarvale) Forest Hill Chaplin Oriole Park Eglinton Mount Pleasant Leaside Laird Sunnybrook Park Science Centre Aga Khan Park & Museum Wynford Sloane O'Connor Pharmacy Hakimi Lebovic Golden Mile Birchmount Ionview Kennedy
Streetcar system	Bingham Loop Distillery Loop Dufferin Loop Exhibition Loop Fleet Loop Gunns Loop High Park Loop Humber Loop Long Branch Loop McCaul Loop Neville Park Loop Queens Quay station
Italics indicate a project under construction