Renforth, referred to during planning as Renforth Gateway, is a bus station on the border of the cities of

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and

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, in Ontario, Canada. Located at

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and Renforth Drive (although the station entrance is on Commerce Boulevard), it is the eastern terminus of the

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and is close to the interchange between

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and Highway 427. Service consists of bus rapid transit on the Mississauga Transitway, local

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and

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(TTC) bus routes,

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express routes on the Highway 401 / Highway 407 corridor and an express connection to Kipling subway station via Highway 427. An extension of

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, a

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line under construction along Eglinton Avenue in Toronto, is slated to reach and have a station at Renforth circa 2030.

Planning and construction

The Renforth site was identified by

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in 2012 as a transportation mobility hub, which would integrate bus rapid transit and local bus service. Construction of the station began in 2014. The old TTC bus loop located at the northwest corner of Renforth and Eglinton was decommissioned and incorporated into the site.

Bus routes

GO Transit

*19 Mississauga / North York *25K Waterloo / Mississauga *29 Mississauga/Guelph *40 Hamilton / Richmond Hill Pearson Express *94 Pickering / Square One

MiWay

*7 Airport *24 Northwest *35 Eglinton (boards on curbside stops outside the station) *39 Britannia *43 Matheson *57/57A Courtneypark *74 Explorer *107 Malton Express *109 Meadowvale Express

TTC

*32A Eglinton West *112 West Mall *332 Eglinton West Blue Night

Future Line 5 Eglinton connection

Renforth station will be the western terminus of the second phase of Line 5 Eglinton – a light rail transit line that is part of the

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system. In April 2022, construction of the "Crosstown West Extension" began along Eglinton Avenue to the east in Toronto from Mount Dennis station. The LRT station will be located below grade in an open trench just north of the transitway station. This station will be the first in the Toronto subway system to be located in the City of

. In December 2021, parts of the

tunnel boring machines A tunnel boring machine (TBM), also known as a "mole" or a "worm", is a machine used to excavate tunnels. TBMs are an alternative to drilling and blasting methods and "hand mining", allowing more rapid excavation through hard rock, wet or dry so ...

(TBMs) that would bore the twin tunnels eastwards along Eglinton from a launch shaft at the future station site arrived and were assembled prior to excavation. The first TBM, dubbed Renny (the name being a reference to Renforth Drive), began tunnelling in April 2022 but the second, named Rexy, started later, by early August, as the launch area was only wide enough to launch one TBM at a time. Tunnelling was completed two years later, with Renny breaking through the extraction shaft near Scarlett Road in May 2024 and Rexy breaking through three weeks later. A proposed third phase of the line would extend and turn north, where it would terminate at the proposed Pearson Regional Transit Centre located north of

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Terminals 1 and 3. As an interim project, land was preserved for future dedicated bus lanes to the airport.

References

External links

Progress at Renforth Gateway - Mississauga Transitway
* * {{TTCstations Mississauga Transitway GO Transit bus terminals 2017 establishments in Ontario