Forest Hill station (Toronto)
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Forest Hill
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Future site of the Forest Hill station entrance.
House of Chan, on the left, collapsed in April 2016 |
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| Location | 842 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°42′04″N 79°25′31″W / 43.70111°N 79.42528°WCoordinates: 43°42′04″N 79°25′31″W / 43.70111°N 79.42528°W | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Centre platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections |
 TTC buses
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
| Architect | IBI Group Architects and SNC-Lavalin |
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| Status | Under construction | ||||||||||
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| Opening | 2021 | ||||||||||
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Forest Hill is an underground light rail transit (LRT) station under construction on Line 5 Eglinton, a new line that is part of the Toronto subway system. It will be located in the Forest Hill neighbourhood at the intersection of Bathurst Street and Eglinton Avenue. It is scheduled to open in 2021.
During the planning stages for Line 5 Eglinton, the station was given the working name "Bathurst", which is identical to the pre-existing Bathurst station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth. On November 23, 2015, a report to the TTC Board recommended giving a unique name to each station in the subway system (including Line 5 Eglinton). Thus, the LRT station was renamed to "Forest Hill".
A small plaza at the northeast corner of the Eglinton and Bathurst intersection, which houses several businesses including a coffee shop and convenience store, will be demolished to make way for the main station entrance. The secondary entrance will be on the north side of Eglinton about 50 m (160 ft) west of the intersection, opposite Peveril Hill; the combined entry and service building will replace three storefronts. In the future, a possible third entrance may be added on the southwest corner adjacent to the Scotiabank.
Three local landmark businesses are likely to have their stores expropriated and demolished for the construction of the station, but it is hoped that they can be relocated on this same strip of Eglinton Avenue. Properties required for the construction of the station, at 842 Eglinton Avenue West and 874–876 Eglinton Avenue West, were expropriated.
Since completion of building the station headwalls, restoration of the roadway on Bathurst Street began on August 16, 2015.
On April 18, 2016, a scaffold erected across the face of the future secondary entrance collapsed, injuring seven people (three seriously). The collapsed structure was the façade of the former location of House of Chan, which is a local independent Chinese-Canadian restaurant; the restaurant itself relocated eastward along Eglinton Avenue to west of Avenue Road.
The following routes would serve this station according to the report presented at the board meeting on February 25, 2016:
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