Caledonia LRT station

Caledonia
Location	2400 Eglinton Avenue West,[1] Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43°41′32″N 79°27′56″W / 43.69222°N 79.46556°WCoordinates: 43°41′32″N 79°27′56″W / 43.69222°N 79.46556°W
Platforms	centre platform
Tracks	2
Connections	TTC buses
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Disabled access	Yes
Architect	Arup Canada, DTAH, and NORR Architects[1]
Other information
Status	Under construction
History
Opening	2021[2]
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Keelesdale toward Mount Dennis Eglinton Opens 2020 Fairbank toward Kennedy Preceding station   GO Transit   Following station Downsview Park toward Allandale Waterfront Barrie Opens after 2020 Union Station Terminus

Caledonia^[2] is an LRT station under construction on the Toronto Transit Commission's Eglinton Crosstown line.^[3] It will be located a few blocks west of Caledonia Road on Eglinton Avenue. It is scheduled to open in 2020.

In May 2015, Metrolinx announced plans to add Caledonia as a future stop on the GO Transit Barrie line.^[4][5]

The station's headwalls were tunneled through in April 2014.^[6][7][8]

According to the York Guardian, the environmental assessment for the GO station is expected to be complete in early 2016, and the GO station portion won't open until the Eglinton Crosstown opens in 2020.^[9]

In a report to the TTC Board on 23 November 2015 it was recommended that stations on Line 5 Eglinton LRT should be given unique names.^[2]

References

1. "Caledonia Crosstown Station : Urban Toronto". Urban Toronto. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
2. "Line 5 Eglinton Station Names" (PDF). Board Presentation. Toronto Transit Commission. 23 November 2015. Retrieved November 2015. TTC staff evaluated the initial report and the proposed names and provided feedback and recommendations. A primary TTC concern was to avoid replication and redundancy with existing TTC station names. The proposed names are unique and are not likely to be confused with existing station names.
3. "Caledonia Station : Crosstown". Eglinton Crosstown. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
4. Dominic Kurek (2015-05-05). "Metrolinx to add GO station at Eglinton Avenue West on Barrie line". Inside Toronto. Archived from the original on 2015-05-05. Metrolinx, the provincial agency in charge of regional transportation plans in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Areas, has announced it will be adding a GO Transit station on the Barrie GO line at Eglinton Avenue West and Caledonia Road.
5. "Metrolinx moving forward with plans for Caledonia GO Station" (Press release). Canada News Wire. 24 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
6. Oliver Moore (2014-04-29). "Underground for now, construction proceeds on Eglinton LRT". Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2014-04-01. Retrieved 2015-01-22. Headwalls that will form the box of the stations have been installed at Keele Street and Caledonia Road, and work is under way on one at Dufferin Street. The TBMs go right through headwalls after they have been built, in order to ensure a tight seal, and the two at work in this area are now on either side of what will eventually be the Caledonia LRT station.
7. Rahul Gupta (2014-05-09). "Eglinton LRT: Construction activity well underway on both sides of Allen Road". Inside Toronto. Archived from the original on 2015-01-23. Retrieved 2015-01-22. Digging 50 feet below street level, the 81-metre long TBMs nicknamed Dennis and Lea are currently located in the vicinity of Caledonia Road, one of 12 underground Crosstown stations planned for the route. They are expected to reach the Allen later this year, when they will be redeployed beyond Eglinton West subway station to continue the dig east towards Yonge Street.
8. Tim Alamenciak (2014-04-30). "Eglinton Crosstown LRT back on schedule, engineer says". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2014-08-03. Retrieved 2015-01-22. “It’s a seemingly simple process that’s actually very high tech,” said Kramer. The first of the two tunneling machines (dubbed Dennis) entered the ground June of 2013 and has made it to Caledonia Rd. from its starting point at Black Creek Dr. The other machine, Lea, is just behind.
9. "5 facts about the future Caledonia GO Station". York Guardian. 2015-06-14. Archived from the original on 2015-06-14. The expected completion date for the station is 2020, to open at the same time as the new Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Metrolinx, a provincial agency in charge of both projects, is currently conducting an environmental assessment for the GO station, which is expected to be complete in early 2016.

External links

• Caledonia Station project page at the Eglinton Crosstown website.