Sunnybrook Park LRT station

Sunnybrook Park
Looking east from Leslie St along Eglinton Ave East at the site of the future light rail station platforms
Location	Eglinton Ave at Leslie St Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43°43′02″N 79°20′58″W / 43.71722°N 79.34944°WCoordinates: 43°43′02″N 79°20′58″W / 43.71722°N 79.34944°W
Platforms	Side platform
Tracks	2
Connections	TTC buses
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Other information
Status	Under construction
History
Opening	2021[1]
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Laird toward Mount Dennis Eglinton Opens 2020 Science Centre toward Kennedy

Sunnybrook Park,^[1] which had a working name of Leslie, is a planned LRT station on the Toronto Transit Commission's Eglinton Crosstown line.^[2] It will be located at the intersection of Leslie Street and Eglinton Avenue. The intersection is largely surrounded by park lands in the valley of the West Branch of the Don River,^[3] which includes destinations such as E.T. Seton Park, Serena Gundy Park, Wilket Creek Park, Sunnybrook Park and Edwards Gardens. The Crosstown line is scheduled to open in 2020.^[2]

The original plan was for Sunnybrook Park to be the westernmost at grade station.^[2]

The station was the subject of controversy.^[4] Metrolinx, the provincial agency with overall responsibility for managing transit throughout the Greater Toronto Area, announced the station would be cancelled in early 2013, due to a change of route. The station is anticipated to be the least used on the line.

By November 2013, when the contract to bore the eastern portion of the tunnel from Laird to Yonge Street the decision had been made for the track to emerge into the middle of Eglinton just east of Laird at Brentcliffe Road.^[5] Some commentators have suggested that, since Leslie and Eglinton is a T-shaped intersection, and the next station east, Science Centre, will be an underground station because a Don Mills LRT line or the Downtown Relief Line may also stop there, the track between Laird and Don Mills could run south of Eglinton, not in the middle of the avenue.

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.^[1]

References

1. "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.
2. "Leslie Stop". The Crosstown.ca. Archived from the original on 2014-10-08. Retrieved 2014-10-11.
3. Steve Munro (2013-06-17). "Metrolinx Announces Design Changes and Public Meetings on Eglinton LRT (Update 8)". Archived from the original on 2015-03-04. Retrieved 2014-10-11.
4. Tess Kalinowski (2013-02-12). "Eglinton-Crosstown LRT: Leasiders fight to put Leslie stop back on the map". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2014-10-11. The stop is being eliminated as part of a change to the LRT construction plan. Disappointed condo-dwellers at Leslie and Eglinton and, nearby Leaside are vowing to fight the decision by Metrolinx.
5. Jack Landau (2013-11-12). "Metrolinx Awards Contract for Crosstown LRT East Tunnel Section". Urban Toronto. Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2014-10-12. With the winning bid for the eastern tunnel section announced, additional specific details about the Crosstown are now beginning to emerge. A newly released rendering from Metrolinx gives us our first look at the configuration of the future transition from tunneled section to surface track bed between Brentcliffe and Leslie.

External links

• Media related to Leslie Street Station, Eglinton Crosstown LRT at Wikimedia Commons