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Eglinton (TTC)
Eglinton is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway. Located on Eglinton Avenue, it is central to the Yonge–Eglinton neighbourhood in Midtown Toronto. Eglinton station is the seventh busiest station of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). Line 5 Eglinton will serve Eglinton station upon completion of the line, which is scheduled for 2023. Eglinton will then become an interchange station for the two lines. Description Line 1 station The current station is on three levels, with entrances scattered throughout the street level in the surrounding area of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue. The concourse, fare gates and bus terminal as well as several shops are on the second level, and the Line 1 platform is on the lower level. Eglinton station is the only one of the original 1954 subway stations (Eglinton to Union on Line 1) to retain its original vitreous marble wall tiles. The other 1954 subway stations used similar wall tiles with variations in colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eglinton Station New Entrance Nov 2022
Eglinton can refer to: People * Earl of Eglinton, a title in the Peerage of Scotland * Geoffrey Eglinton (1927–2016), British chemist * Timothy Eglinton, a British biogeoscientist *William Eglinton (1857–1933), a British spiritualist medium and fraud *J.Z. Eglinton, pseudonym of Walter H. Breen Jr. (1928–1993) *John Eglinton, pseudonym of William Kirkpatrick Magee (1868–1961) Places Australia * Eglinton, New South Wales, a suburb of Bathurst *Eglinton, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth Canada Toronto *Eglinton, Ontario, a former village now in Toronto *Eglinton (electoral district), a former federal electoral district *Eglinton (provincial electoral district), a former provincial electoral district *Eglinton Avenue, a main thoroughfare in Toronto * Eglinton Park * Eglinton Theatre *Line 5 Eglinton or Eglinton Crosstown Line, a light rail line under construction **Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facility, a light-rail facility serving Line 5 Eglinton Canadian Terr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presto Card
The Presto card (stylized as PRESTO) is a contactless smart card automated fare collection system used on participating public transit systems in the province of Ontario, Canada, specifically in Greater Toronto, Hamilton, and Ottawa. Presto card readers were implemented on a trial basis from 25 June 2007 to 30 September 2008. Full implementation began in November 2009 and it was rolled out across rapid transit stations, railway stations, bus stops and terminals, and transit vehicles on eleven different transit systems. A variant of the Presto card is the Presto ticket, introduced on 5 April 2019, which is a single-use paper ticket with an embedded chip. The Presto ticket can only be used for the services of the Toronto Transit Commission. One of the 10 strategies of The Big Move, the GTHA's regional transportation plan, was to create an integrated transit fare system amongst the 10 public transit agencies in the GTHA. The Presto system was designed to support the use of one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
York Mills Station
York Mills is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 4015 Yonge Street at the intersection of Wilson Avenue and York Mills Road in the neighbourhood of Hoggs Hollow. History The station opened in 1973, in what was then the Borough of North York, and replaced as the northern terminus of the Yonge line. One year later, the subway was extended to . The original bus terminal was above ground, in a standard island configuration surrounded by bus bays, and at that time was also used by GO Transit buses, with transfers required for connecting TTC buses. The current underground TTC bus platforms and GO Bus Terminal were built between 1985 and 1992 with the development of the York Mills Centre, with the TTC platforms inside the fare-paid area. In 2007, this station became accessible with elevators. By 2015, the tiles on the walls, floors and stairs had been replaced at this station. On the outer walls at track level the altern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yonge Streetcar Line
Beginning operation in 1861, the Yonge streetcar line was the first streetcar line in Toronto and the first in Canada. It started off as a horsecar line and closed in 1954 operating two-unit trains of Peter Witt motors pulling a trailer. Under the Toronto Transportation Commission, the Yonge line was the busiest and most congested streetcar line in the city leading to its replacement in 1954 by the Yonge Subway line, also Toronto's first and the first in Canada. History TSR era (1861–1891) On September 10, 1861, the Yonge streetcar line became the first streetcar line in Canada. It ran from Yorkville Town Hall (north of Bloor Street at Scollard Street and Yonge Street), south on Yonge Street then east on King Street to St. Lawrence Hall. The Toronto Street Railway operated the line using horsecars. In 1873, the Toronto Street Railway extended the Yonge streetcar line to Front Street then west to York Street to serve the Grand Trunk Railway station at Simcoe Street. Yonge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Munro
Steve Munro (born 7 September 1948) is a Canadian blogger and transit advocate from Toronto, Ontario. Munro has been credited in playing a lead role in the grass-roots efforts to convince the Toronto City Council to reverse plans to abandon Toronto's remaining streetcars. Work Munro has written several technical reports on transit. Since 2006, he has written a blog that is frequently quoted by other transit commentators, and he has written a regular column for ''Spacing'' magazine and '' Torontoist''. In 1986, Munro was critical of the decision to build a subway on Sheppard Avenue rather than a light rail vehicle line as professional transit planners recommended. In 2005, Munro was recognized for his long advocacy for improved public transit with the Jane Jacobs Medal Jane Jacobs (''née'' Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloor–Yonge Station
Bloor–Yonge is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University and Line 2 Bloor–Danforth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located in Downtown Toronto, under the intersection of Yonge Street and Bloor Street, it is the busiest subway station in the system, handling over 200,000 passengers on an average weekday. Wi-Fi is available at this station. History The station was opened in 1954 and designed by Charles B. Dolphin. It was originally named "Bloor", and connected with a pair of enclosed platforms in the centre of Bloor Street to allow interchange with Bloor streetcars within the fare-paid zone. When the streetcars were replaced with the Bloor-Danforth subway in 1966, the station began to be shown on maps as "Bloor–Yonge". However, actual platform signs still show "Bloor" on the Yonge–University line and "Yonge" on the Bloor–Danforth line, following a naming style common in New York subway station complexes, where only the platform's cross street is shown on the platf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UrbanToronto
UrbanToronto is a website that covers various urban development topics within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2017, the website received over 2 million page views and 225,000 unique users every month, and had over 15,500 registered members. The website features forums dedicated to development in Toronto, where enthusiasts discuss various projects, offer opinions, and share pictures of developments in progress. New development information and illustrations are often shared in the forums before their official release. The website's forums have also influenced revisions to development proposals in response to comments and discussion. The website also features a database and interactive map of different urban developments, which is integrated with the forums. UrbanToronto was founded by Ryan Delrue, who started it as a hobby in 2002 and whose Forum handle was 'billy corgan19982'. The site quickly grew with additional members, and became a community of people interested in arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Globe And Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it falls slightly behind the '' Toronto Star'' in overall weekly circulation because the ''Star'' publishes a Sunday edition, whereas the ''Globe'' does not. ''The Globe and Mail'' is regarded by some as Canada's " newspaper of record". ''The Globe and Mail''s predecessors, '' The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' were both established in the 19th century. The former was established in 1844, while the latter was established in 1895 through a merger of '' The Toronto Mail'' and the '' Toronto Empire''. In 1936, ''The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' merged to form ''The Globe and Mail''. The newspaper was acquired by FP Publications in 1965, who later sold the paper to the Thomson Corporation in 1980. In 2001, the paper merged with broadc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crosstown Construction At Eglinton Station Feb 2018
Crosstown may refer to: Transportation * IND Crosstown Line, a subway line in New York, New York, United States * Line 5 Eglinton, a light rail line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, also known as "the Crosstown" * MBTA crosstown bus routes, bus routes in and around Boston, Massachusetts, United States * Minnesota State Highway 62 (east), referred to as "the Crosstown" * A cross-city route (except in North American English) Other * Crosstown, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Perry County, Missouri * Crosstown, Ohio, an unincorporated community * "Crosstown" (Glenn Miller song), a 1940 song recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra on RCA Bluebird. * Smart Crosstown, a concept car by Smart * Crosstown Shootout, an annual college basketball game between the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University See also * Crosstown Expressway (other) * Crosstown Line (other) * Crosstown traffic (other) Crosstown traffic may refer to: * Crosstown traffic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands division. The newspaper's offices are located at One Yonge Street in the Harbourfront neighbourhood of Toronto. The newspaper was established in 1892 as the ''Evening Star'' and was later renamed the ''Toronto Daily Star'' in 1900, under Joseph E. Atkinson. Atkinson was a major influence in shaping the editorial stance of the paper, with the paper having reflected his values until his death in 1948. The paper was renamed the ''Toronto Star'' in 1971. The newspaper introduced a Sunday edition in 1973. History The ''Star'' was created in 1892 by striking '' Toronto News'' printers and writers, led by future mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarence Hocken, who became the newspaper's founder, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TD Canada Trust
TD Canada Trust, frequently shortened to simply TD, is the commercial banking operation of TD Bank Group in Canada. TD Canada Trust offers a range of financial services and products to more than 10 million Canadian customers through more than 1,100 branches and 2,600 ATMs. In addition to the countrywide network of TD branches and ATMs in Canada, the bank has a network of mobile mortgage specialists, financial planners, private bankers, investment advisors, and portfolio managers. The current TD Canada Trust division was formed after TD's acquisition of Canada Trust in 2000; prior to this merger, the institution's retail operations were branded TD Bank. All new and most existing accounts are officially issued by Toronto-Dominion Bank ( Institution Number: 004), although Canada Trust (Institution Number: 509) remains a separate subsidiary entity, and it remains the issuer of accounts opened at that institution prior to the merger. Since 2012, TD has been phasing out the "Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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