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

Mississauga Mississauga ( ), historically known as Toronto Township, is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is situated on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, adjoining the western border of Toronto. With a popul ...

and

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...

, in Ontario, Canada. Located at

Eglinton Avenue Eglinton Avenue is a major east–west arterial thoroughfare in Toronto and Mississauga in the Canadian province of Ontario. The street begins at Highway 407 (but does not interchange with the tollway) at the western limits of Mississauga, as a ...

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

Mississauga Transitway The Mississauga Transitway is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It comprises a series of purpose-constructed bus-only roadways, as well as reserved lanes on existing city streets and portions of Highway 403, tha ...

and is close to the interchange between

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and

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. Service consists of

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on the Mississauga Transitway, local

MiWay MiWay (pronounced "my way"; stylized miWAY), also known as Mississauga Transit and originally as Mississauga Transit Systems, is the municipal public transport agency serving Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and is responsible to the city's Tra ...

and

Toronto Transit Commission The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is the public transport agency that operates bus, subway, streetcar, and paratransit services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, some of which run into the Peel Region and York Region. It is the oldest and largest ...

(TTC) bus routes,

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express routes on the Highway 401 /

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corridor and an express connection to

Kipling subway station Kipling is the western terminus station of Line 2 Bloor–Danforth of the Toronto subway system. The station is served by buses and subway trains operated by the Toronto Transit Commission and is adjacent to the Kipling GO Station on the Milton ...

via Highway 427.

Line 5 Eglinton Line 5 Eglinton (also known as the Eglinton Crosstown or the Crosstown) is a light rail line that is under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Metrolinx and operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), the line will be part ...

, a light rail transit 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 *29 Mississauga/Guelph *40 Hamilton/Richmond Hill Pearson Express

MiWay

*7 Airport *24 Northwest *35 Eglinton (board on curbside stops outside station) *39 Britannia *43 Matheson–Argentia *57 Courtneypark *74 Explorer *87 Meadowvale–Skymark *100 Airport Express *107 Malton Express *109 Meadowvale Express

TTC

*32A Eglinton West *112 West Mall

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

Toronto subway The Toronto subway is a rapid transit system serving Toronto and the neighbouring city of Vaughan in Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). It is a multimodal transport, multimodal rail network consisting of three Pa ...

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 mid-December 2021, parts of the

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(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 big enough to launch one TBM at a time. The extraction shaft will be near the west side of Scarlett Road. A proposed third phase of the line would extend and turn north, where it would terminate at the proposed

Pearson Regional Transit Centre The Pearson Regional Transit Centre also known as Union Station West is a proposed second intermodal transportation hub to serve the Greater Toronto Area. The transit hub will be located at the site of Viscount station currently serving the Link ...

located north of

Toronto Pearson International Airport Lester B. Pearson International Airport , commonly known as Toronto Pearson International Airport, is an international airport located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is the main airport serving Toronto, its metropolitan area, and the surro ...

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