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Caledonia station

Caledonia is an underground Toronto subway station on Line 5 Eglinton in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located along Eglinton Avenue between the GO Transit Barrie rail corridor and the entrance to the Westside Mall. It is about west of Caledonia Road opposite Blackthorn Avenue.

In April 2014, the station's headwalls were tunnelled through.

Description

The main entrance faces Eglinton Avenue West and has a small station plaza. The station includes a bus loop with two bus bays, outdoor parking for 60 bicycles and retail spaces within the main entrance at ground level.

The underground station platform is located on the north side of Eglinton Avenue directly under the main entrance. The station design provides an opportunity to bring sunlight from this entrance down to the platform level via an open shaft from the upper concourse.

Artwork and architecture

The station was designed by NORR, following an architectural concept designed by architects gh3* from Toronto and Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker from Montreal. As with other stations on Line 5, architectural features include natural light from large windows and skylights, steel structures painted white, and orange accents (the colour of the line).

As part of a program to install artworks at major interchange stations along Line 5 Eglinton, Caledonia station features the artwork Ride of Your Life by Janice Kerbel, consisting of a series of large-scale mosaic wall works visible from the Line 5 platform level. The artwork shows mosaic images of signage with multiple typefaces and sizes, similar to fairground posters from the early 1900s.

Caledonia GO Station

In May 2015, Metrolinx announced plans to add Caledonia as a future stop on the GO Transit Barrie line. Construction of the GO portion of the station was expected to take two years and began in October 2025.

The LRT station will be integrated with the planned GO station. There will be a pedestrian bridge connecting the GO station to the LRT station's main entrance. The GO station will have a second entrance at its north end where both the York Beltline Trail and Bowie Avenue end. In future, through the Regional Rail Express project, a second track is planned for the GO line to enable all-day, two-way GO train service.

Surface connections

The following bus routes serve Caledonia station:

References

External links

  • published by Metrolinx on May 15, 2020, featuring a drone video of the partially built station