Disabled access Yes | Connections TTC buses Status Under construction | |
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Similar Downsview Park, Bowmanville GO Station, Acton GO Station, Bradford GO Station, Gormley GO Station | ||
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Mount Dennis is an intermodal transit terminal under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located east of the intersection of Eglinton Avenue and Weston Road in the Mount Dennis neighbourhood in the district of York, the station will be the western terminus of the future Line 5 Eglinton as well as an intermediate station on the GO Transit Kitchener line and Union Pearson Express The station has been designated as one of many "mobility hubs" in Greater Toronto.
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The station is being built on the lands formerly known as Kodak Heights, which was a camera manufacturing facility operated by the Eastman Kodak Company from 1918 to 2006. Adjacent to the station, the Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facility will also be located on the lands.
Station designEdit
A draft prepared on April 10, 2013 established four designs for the station. In all the designs the underground LRT platform will be 150 metres long—long enough for four vehicle trainsets. Two designs placed the bus platform on the north side of Eglinton, accessed through a 230-metre pedestrian tunnel. In the other two designs the bus platform(s) were on the south side of Eglinton, accessed through a 260-metre pedestrian tunnel.
By 2016, the finalized design placed the bus loop on the north side of the station, accessed by a relocated Photography Drive bridge that crosses Eglinton further to the east than the old bridge. This roadway would pass east of the renovated Kodak building, which would form the station's secondary entrance.
The main entrance would be on the west side of the rail corridor, while a third entrance would be at street level facing Eglinton, between the rail bridges and the Photography Drive bridge. The LRT platform would have a glass wall allowing natural light into the space.
East of the station, the LRT line would travel on an elevated guideway above Black Creek Drive and Black Creek itself, before descending into the western portal of the line's bored tunnel, towards Keelesdale Station.