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Forest Hill station (Toronto)

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Platforms
  
Centre platform

Structure type
  
Underground

Province
  
Ontario

Tracks
  
2

Connections
  
TTC buses

Disabled access
  
Yes

Platform
  
Island platform

Forest Hill station (Toronto)

Location
  
842 Eglinton Avenue West,Toronto, OntarioCanada

Architect
  
IBI Group Architects andSNC-Lavalin

Similar
  
Chaplin station, Science Centre station, Leaside station, Laird station, Keelesdale station

Forest Hill is a light rail station that is under construction on the future Line 5 Eglinton. 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.

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. The station will connect with the 7 Bathurst bus route.

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 16 August 2015.

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.

On 18 April 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.

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Forest Hill station (Toronto) Wikipedia


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