Eglinton West subway

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The Eglinton West subway was a proposed east-west subway line in Toronto, Canada. It was to start from the existing Eglinton West station on the Toronto Transit Commission's Yonge-University-Spadina line. Work began in the 1990s, but halted in 1995 when the newly-elected Government of Ontario cancelled the project. The excavation under Eglinton West intended to be Allen Station was subsequently filled in.

Eglinton West
Between Eglinton West and Renforth

The Eglinton West subway is no longer a priority of the TTC. Its expansion priorities are instead the extension of the Spadina subway to York University and Steeles Avenue, the replacement of the aging Scarborough RT system, the extension of the Sheppard subway to Victoria Park Avenue and Scarborough City Centre, and improvements to major bus and streetcar routes to create a network of "surface rapid transit" routes (including on Eglinton Avenue).

1 Proposed stations
2 Allen Station
3 Future
4 References
5 See also

[edit] Proposed stations

Eglinton West - Allen Station
Dufferin North Station
Caledonia Station / GO Station
Keele North / Trethewey Station
York Centre Station
Jane North Station
Scarlett Station
Royal York North Station
Islington North Station
Kipling North Station
Martin Grove Station
Attwell-Skyway Station
Carlingview Station
Renforth Station

[edit] Allen Station

Also known as Lower Eglinton West, this station was only a partial tunnel that was filled in shortly after the line's cancellation. It would have been linked to Eglinton West station on the Yonge-University-Spadina line and the terminus of William R. Allen Road.

[edit] Future

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It may contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change dramatically as the construction and/or completion of the infrastructure approaches, and more information becomes available.

The TTC's recent proposed expansion plan^[1], includes an light rail transit (LRT or streetcar) line across Eglinton. This line would be built underground between Keele and Laird streets, which would effectively create an Eglinton West "subway", but would use LRT vehicles rather than the subway trains.