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Science Centre station

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Platforms
  
Centre platform

Structure type
  
Underground

Disabled access
  
Yes

Tracks
  
2

Connections
  
TTC buses

Bicycle facilities
  
Indoor bike parking

Platform
  
Island platform

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Location
  
Eglinton Ave E. at Don Mills Rd Toronto, Ontario Canada

Similar
  
Oriole Park station, Sunnybrook Park stop, Loop at Bingham, High Park Loop, Downsview Park

Science Centre is a planned underground LRT station on the Toronto Transit Commission's Eglinton Crosstown line. It will be located in the Flemingdon Park neighbourhood at the intersection of Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue. It is scheduled to open in 2020.

This station's main entrance will be built adjacent to the Ontario Science Centre at the southwest corner of the intersection with Don Mills Road. A secondary entrance will be on the opposite northeast corner, with a new bus terminal stretching beyond that to Gervais Drive.

Unlike the other underground stations on the line, this stop will be built in a cut-and-cover tunnel with at-grade stations on either side; a surface station was considered here as well, but given the expected ridership and potential for a junction with a future Don Mills LRT or perhaps the Relief Line, the underground approach was approved.

Destinations include the Ontario Science Centre, the Flemingdon Park neighbourhood, the Celestica headquarters, and the Foresters building.

The station was originally to be named Don Mills, however in a report to the TTC Board on 23 November 2015 it was recommended that stations on the Eglinton LRT have unique names to avoid confusion with existing stations. It was given its current name to both be more descriptive of the nearby Ontario Science Centre (in the same vein as Museum subway station), and to avoid confusion with the Don Mills subway station.

References

Science Centre station Wikipedia