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Sunnybrook Park stop

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Platforms
  
Side platform

Structure type
  
At grade

Opening
  
2021

Platform
  
Side platform

Connections
  
TTC buses

Status
  
Under construction

Province
  
Ontario

Tracks
  
2

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Location
  
Eglinton Ave at Leslie St Toronto, Ontario Canada

Similar
  
Oriole Park station, Science Centre station, Loop at Bingham, High Park Loop, Gunns Loop

Sunnybrook Park, which had a working name of Leslie, is a planned LRT station on the Toronto Transit Commission's Eglinton Crosstown line. It will be located at the intersection of Leslie Street and Eglinton Avenue. The intersection is largely surrounded by park lands in the valley of the West Branch of the Don River, which includes destinations such as E.T. Seton Park, Serena Gundy Park, Wilket Creek Park, Sunnybrook Park and Edwards Gardens. The Crosstown line is scheduled to open in 2020.

The original plan was for Sunnybrook Park to be the westernmost at grade station.

The station was the subject of controversy. Metrolinx, the provincial agency with overall responsibility for managing transit throughout the Greater Toronto Area, announced the station would be cancelled in early 2013, due to a change of route. The station is anticipated to be the least used on the line.

By November 2013, when the contract to bore the eastern portion of the tunnel from Laird to Yonge Street the decision had been made for the track to emerge into the middle of Eglinton just east of Laird at Brentcliffe Road. Some commentators have suggested that, since Leslie and Eglinton is a T-shaped intersection, and the next station east, Science Centre, will be an underground station because a Don Mills LRT line or the Downtown Relief Line may also stop there, the track between Laird and Don Mills could run south of Eglinton, not in the middle of the avenue.

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.

References

Sunnybrook Park stop Wikipedia