Cedarvale station
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Eglinton West
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| Location | 1300 Eglinton Avenue West Toronto, Ontario Canada |
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| 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 | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground / at grade | |||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Architect |
Arthur Erickson Clifford & Lawrie |
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| Opened | 28 January 1978 | |||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2015) | 16,830 | |||||||||||||||
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Eglinton West is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the median of Allen Road on the north side of Eglinton Avenue West.
Line 5 Eglinton will also serve Eglinton West station upon its completion, scheduled for 2021. At that time, Eglinton West will be an interchange station and be renamed Cedarvale. Metrolinx is building the line along Eglinton Avenue from Mount Dennis to Kennedy.
The station opened in 1978, as part of the Line 1 extension from St. George to Wilson station.
In 1978 when the station opened, a trolley bus route (63 Ossington) served the station and looped around the station building. To coincide with the station opening, the route was extended from its prior terminus at Oakwood Avenue and Eglinton Avenue. The route ran south to the loop at King Street. In 1992, the route was converted to diesel buses and the overhead wires were removed.
Eglinton West had been planned to be an interchange station as part of the proposed Eglinton West line (not to be confused with the Eglinton Crosstown 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.
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