Fairbank is an underground Toronto subway station on Line 5 Eglinton in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the Fairbank neighbourhood at the intersection of Dufferin Street and Eglinton Avenue West. Destinations include Fairbank Memorial Park.
The main entrance replaces the Esso gas station on the east side of St. Hilda's Park, at the southeast corner of Dufferin Street and Eglinton Avenue. A secondary entrance is located on the northwest corner, where a right-turn slip road was removed to provide the necessary space. A third structure, for mechanical and venting purposes, replaces a storefront near the southwest corner. Fairbank station includes a decorative exterior plaza having grass, a misting feature, 14 shade trees, 15 benches and ten bicycle parking spaces. It will be suitable for community events.
The station was designed by Daoust Lestage, 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).
During the planning stages for Line 5 Eglinton, the station was given the working name Dufferin, which was identical to the existing Dufferin station on Line 2 BloorâÂÂDanforth. In 2015, a report to the TTC Board recommended giving a unique name to each station in the subway system (including Line 5 Eglinton). Thus, the LRT station was renamed Fairbank after the Fairbank neighbourhood rather than the intersecting Dufferin Street.
The following bus routes serve Fairbank station: