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Sloane Stop
Line 5 Eglinton, also known as the Eglinton Crosstown LRT or the Crosstown, is a light rail transit line that is under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that will be part of the Toronto subway system. Owned by Metrolinx and operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), the line was conceived in 2007 during the administration of Toronto mayor David Miller (Canadian politician), David Miller as part of Transit City, a large-scale transit expansion plan that included several light rail lines proposed across the city. While the plan was later dropped by successive municipal governments, only the Eglinton Crosstown LRT received support and funding from the Government of Ontario under premier Kathleen Wynne. The line is being constructed in two phases. The first phase of the line will include 25 stops along Eglinton Avenue, from Mount Dennis station mostly underground to Laird station, after which it will run predominantly at-grade within the street's Median strip, median ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flexity Freedom
The Flexity Freedom is a Low-floor tram, low-floor, Articulated tram, articulated light rail vehicle developed by Bombardier Transportation, and later Alstom, for the Light rail in North America, North American market. It is marketed as part of the Alstom Flexity family which includes other models of trams (streetcars) and light metro vehicles. They are produced in facilities in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Thunder Bay and Kingston, Ontario, Kingston, Ontario, which once produced rolling stock under the names of Canada Car and Foundry (CC&F) and Urban Transportation Development Corporation (UTDC), respectively. The Flexity Freedom is used on the Ion rapid transit in Kitchener, Ontario, Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario, Waterloo, Ontario, and the Valley Line (Edmonton), Valley Line in Edmonton. It is planned for use on the Line 5 Eglinton light rail system under construction in Toronto. Being entirely low-floor, these vehicles directly compete with the Flexity Swift, Alstom Citadis, Siem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Dennis Station
Mount Dennis (also known as Mount Dennis GO) is an intermodal transit terminal under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located east of the intersection of Eglinton Avenue and Weston Road in the Mount Dennis neighbourhood in the district of York, it will be the western terminus of the future Line 5 Eglinton, as well as an intermediate station on GO Transit's Kitchener line and the Union Pearson Express. The station has been designated as one of many " mobility hubs" in Greater Toronto. after several delays, no new opening date for the station had been set. The station is being built on the lands formerly known as Kodak Heights, which was a camera manufacturing facility operated by the Eastman Kodak Company from 1918 to 2006. The station will use Kodak Building 9, a recreational heritage building and local landmark, as a station entrance. Adjacent to the station, the Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facility is also located on the lands. Timeline A draft prepared on A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Municipality Of Peel
The Regional Municipality of Peel (informally Peel Region or Region of Peel, also formerly Peel County) is a regional municipality in the Greater Toronto Area, Southern Ontario, Canada. It consists of three municipalities to the west and northwest of the city of Toronto: the cities of Mississauga and Brampton, and the town of Caledon, each of which spans its full east–west width. The regional seat is in Brampton. With a population of about 1.5 million, Peel Region's growth can be credited largely to immigration and transportation infrastructure: seven 400-series highways serve the region and most of Toronto Pearson International Airport is located within its boundaries. Mississauga, which occupies the southernmost portion of the region with over 800,000 residents, is the largest in population in Peel Region and is overall the seventh-largest lower-tier municipality in Canada. It reaches from Lake Ontario north to near Highway 407. Brampton, a city with over 600,000 residents, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
York, Ontario
York is a district and former city within Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located northwest of Old Toronto, southwest of North York North York is a former township and city and is now one of the six administrative districts of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the northern area of Toronto, centred around Yonge Street, north of Ontario Highway 401. It is bounded by ... and east of the Humber River (Ontario), Humber River. Originally formed as York Township, it encompassed the southern section of York County. It was split several times, creating East York and North York. In 1953, it became part of the Metropolitan Toronto federation. It absorbed several municipalities, including Lambton, Toronto, Lambton Mills and Weston, Toronto, Weston and was eventually known as the City of York. In 1998, it was dissolved along with Metro Toronto and its constituent municipalities, amalgamation of Toronto, amalgamated to form the current Municipal government of Toronto, City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Toronto
The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was an upper-tier level of municipal government in Ontario, Canada, from 1953 to 1998. It was made up of the old city of Toronto and numerous townships, towns and villages that surrounded Toronto, which were starting to urbanize rapidly after World War II. It was commonly referred to as "Metro Toronto" or "Metro". Passage of the 1997 ''City of Toronto Act'' caused the 1998 amalgamation of Metropolitan Toronto and its constituents into the current City of Toronto. The boundaries of present-day Toronto are the same as those of Metropolitan Toronto upon its dissolution: Lake Ontario to the south, Etobicoke Creek and Highway 427 to the west, Steeles Avenue to the north, and the Rouge River to the east. History City and suburbs Prior to the formation of Metropolitan Toronto, the municipalities surrounding the central city of Toronto were all independent townships, towns and villages within York County. After 1912, the city no longe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Network 2011
Network 2011 was a plan for transit expansion created in 1985 by the Toronto Transit Commission. It was centred on three proposed subway lines: the Downtown Relief Line, Eglinton West Line, and the Sheppard Line. Only a portion of the Sheppard Line was built. The Eglinton West and Downtown Relief Lines were cancelled; they were superseded by the Eglinton Crosstown light rail line and the Ontario Line respectively. The plan The 1970s had seen the end of new expressway construction in Toronto, and the preservation of the downtown streetcar system. In 1972, while construction was underway on the Spadina Subway line, the provincial government of Bill Davis introduced the GO-Urban transit plan for the Toronto region. Rather than build either subways or light rail, the plan would build a network of innovative maglevs to ring Metro Toronto. The maglev project failed, and the province switched to supporting UTDC's Intermediate Capacity Transit System. An initial line was built, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaal Myers
Jamaal Michael Anthony Myers (born 1982 or 1983) is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has been the chair of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) since August 11, 2023. Myers has represented Ward 23 Scarborough North on Toronto City Council since November 15, 2022. Before entering politics, he worked as a corporate lawyer. Early life and education Jamaal Michael Anthony Myers was born in 1982 or 1983 in Scarborough to Jamaican parents and raised in Toronto Community Housing. He attended the University of Western Ontario, graduating in 2006 with a bachelor's in political science, before completing a master's in comparative politics and research methodology at the London School of Economics in 2007. Myers earned a law degree from the New York University School of Law in 2013. Career Myers was previously employed at TD Bank and was promoted to senior legal counsel in 2020, with his work focusing on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG). He served as vice-chair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eglinton East LRT
The Eglinton East LRT (EELRT), formerly known as the Scarborough Malvern LRT, is a proposed light rail line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The line would be entirely within the district of Scarborough. It was originally part of Transit City, a 2007 plan to develop new light rail lines along several priority transit corridors in the city. Unlike Line 5 Eglinton, which is a Metrolinx project, the EELRT is a City of Toronto project. , the plan was that the EELRT be designed and operated as a distinct service from Line 5 Eglinton; both would terminate at Kennedy station with no connecting track. , the estimated cost of the EELRT was $4.65billion, with construction expected to occur between 2027 and 2034. History Transit City initial proposal The Scarborough Malvern LRT was part of Toronto mayor David Miller's Transit City proposal announced on 16 March 2007, to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. This shorter line was envisioned to terminate at Sheppard Avenue East an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Pearson International Airport
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 surrounding region known as the Golden Horseshoe. Pearson is the largest and busiest airport in Canada, handling 46.8 million passengers in 2024. It is named in honour of Lester B. Pearson (1897–1972), the 14th Prime Minister of Canada and 1957 Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his humanitarian work in peacekeeping. Pearson International Airport is situated northwest of Downtown Toronto in the adjacent city of Mississauga, with a small portion of the airfield extending into Toronto's western district of Etobicoke. It has five runways and two passenger terminals along with numerous cargo, maintenance, and aerospace production facilities on a site that covers . Toronto Pearson is the primary global hub for Air Canada. It also serves as a hub for Porter Airlines and WestJet, as a focus city for Ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Toronto Scarborough
The University of Toronto Scarborough (abbreviated as U of T Scarborough or UTSC) is a division of the University of Toronto and one of its three campuses, located in the Scarborough, Ontario, Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The campus is set upon suburban parkland next to Highland Creek (Toronto), Highland Creek. It was established in 1964 as Scarborough College, a collegiate university, constituent college of the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science, Faculty of Arts & Science. The college expanded following its designation as an autonomic division of the university in 1972 and gradually became a more independent institution. It is the smallest in terms of enrolment size among the University of Toronto's three campuses, the other two of which are the University of Toronto#St. George campus, St. George campus in Downtown Toronto and the University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga campus. Academics of the campus are centred on a variety of under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renforth Station
Renforth, referred to during planning as Renforth Gateway, is a bus station on the border of the cities of Mississauga and Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. Located at Eglinton Avenue and Renforth Drive (although the station entrance is on Commerce Boulevard), it is the eastern terminus of the Mississauga Transitway and is close to the Interchange (road), interchange between Ontario Highway 401, Highway 401 and Ontario Highway 427, Highway 427. Service consists of bus rapid transit on the Mississauga Transitway, local MiWay and Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus routes, GO Transit express routes on the Highway 401 / Ontario Highway 407, Highway 407 corridor and an express connection to Kipling station, Kipling subway station via Highway 427. An extension of Line 5 Eglinton, 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 Metroli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth
Line 2 Bloor–Danforth is a rapid transit line in the Toronto subway system, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). It has 31 Metro station, stations and is in length. It opened on February 26, 1966, and extensions at both ends were completed in 1968 and again in 1980. The line runs primarily a few metres north of Bloor Street from its western terminus at Kipling Avenue with a direct connection to the Kipling GO Station to the Prince Edward Viaduct east of Castle Frank Road, after which the street continues as Danforth Avenue and the line continues running a few metres north of Danforth Avenue until just east of Main Street, where it bends northeasterly and runs above-grade until just east of Warden station, where it continues underground to its eastern terminus, slightly east of Kennedy Road (Toronto), Kennedy Road on Eglinton Avenue, which has a direct connection to the Kennedy GO Station. The subway line is closed nightly for maintenance, during which Blue Night ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
