Avenue station
Oriole Park  | |||||||||||
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 The main entrance will be located at the northwest corner of Eglinton Avenue and Avenue Road | |||||||||||
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| Location | Eglinton Ave/Avenue Rd Toronto, Ontario Canada | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°42′17″N 79°24′28″W / 43.70472°N 79.40778°W | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Centre platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections |  TTC buses | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||
| Status | Under construction | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opening | 2021[1] | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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Oriole Park[1] is a future station under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It will be part of the future Line 5 Eglinton, located in North Toronto on Eglinton Avenue between Avenue Road and Highbourne Road. It is scheduled to open in 2020.
The main entrance to this underground station will be located on the northwest corner of Eglinton and Avenue Road, replacing a convenience store. A second entrance, about 80m east on the north side of Eglinton, will replace two storefronts.[2]
Destinations include the Chaplin Estates neighbourhood, Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School, the Eglinton Theatre, and Eglinton Park.
In a report to the TTC Board on 23 November 2015 it was recommended that stations on Line 5 Eglinton should be given unique names.[1] The station was initially proposed to be named Avenue, for Avenue Road, but was later proposed by Metrolinx to Oriole Park.
Unlike the cut and cover method being used to construct most of the line's underground stations, Oriole Park will be built by the sequential excavation method.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Line 5 Eglinton Station Names" (PDF). Board Presentation. Toronto Transit Commission. 23 November 2015. Retrieved 23 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.
- ^ "Avenue Station". Eglinton Crosstown. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^ Crosstown. "Sequential Excavation Method (also known as the New Austrian Tunnelling Method) will be used at Avenue station". Twitter. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
External links
- Avenue Station project page at the Eglinton Crosstown website.
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