Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facility
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Eglinton Crosstown
Maintenance and Storage Facility |
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This 2013 image shows Kodak Building 9, in the foreground, which will become part of a new GO Transit station. The 23 hectare brownfield in the background will be the site of the maintenance and storage facility for 162 Flexity Freedom vehicle.
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| Location | Industry Street, Mount Dennis, Toronto, Ontario Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°41′25″N 79°29′16″W / 43.69028°N 79.48778°WCoordinates: 43°41′25″N 79°29′16″W / 43.69028°N 79.48778°W |
| Owned by | Metrolinx |
| Operated by | Metrolinx plans to contract with a third party to operate the maintenance facility |
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| Structure type | Flexity Freedom vehicle maintenance and storage facility |
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| Status | Under construction |
| History | |
| Opening | 2021 |
The Eglinton LRT maintenance and storage facility will be required by Toronto, Ontario, for its Eglinton Crosstown light rail line, currently under construction. The site will have storage for 162 Flexity Freedom LRT vehicles and have extensive maintenance facilities. The carhouse is planned to be built near the line's western terminus at Mount Dennis LRT station, on lands formerly occupied by Kodak's Toronto campus.
The site was chosen because it was a sufficiently large "brownfield", immediately adjacent to one terminus of the line. At first Metrolinx wasn't open to input from neighbouring residents, but in May 2013, they announced that they would organize a mechanism for taking feedback.
In 2013 Metrolinx announced that they would contract with a private company to operate the facility. It would not be operated by the TTC.
The facility's footprint will be 23 hectares (57 acres).
The Eglinton line will use Flexity Freedom standard gauge rolling stock, and will not be connected to the TTC's current lines, which all use TTC broad gauge. The TTC's existing light rail and streetcar lines all use older Bombardier rolling stock, which are being replaced with TTC Flexity Outlook LRT rolling stock.
The October 2015 design for the facility incorporated two artificial ponds, and green tracks, so its landscaping would better integrate with the adjacent parkland, in the Black Creek valley. The facility will have a "green roof".
For the first several years of development, plans called for the northwest corner of the site to contain a natural-gas fired power plant to be used mainly as a back-up generator. It would have had the capacity to run the entire Crosstown system to avoid peak demand times on the provincial power grid or in a power outage, and save about 40 per cent on the price of electricity. The plant was to have been 25 metres wide, 62 metres long and 9 metres tall. Some local residents, and environmental activists, were critical of Metrolinx's plan to use a backup generator powered by fossil fuel.
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