A chance missed
Here are the names of the 25 stations to be built along the Eglinton Crosstown LRT as released by Metrolinx today after sometimes rancorous discussion about whether they really fit the nature of the locations. A notable issue was the need to prevent confusing duplication between LRT names and those already in use on the Bloor-Danforth line. The station at Yonge Street will take the name Eglinton because that’s what it is upstairs for the Yonge (#1) subway line and a great opportunity has been missed not to install the name Cowbell downstairs where the LRT will pass. Cowbell would remember the farm people who trod the laneway nearby and evoke Toronto’s pre-transit mental state.
- Mount Dennis
- Keelesdale
- Caledonia
- Fairbank (Dufferin)
- Oakwood
- Cedarvale
- Forest Hill (Bathurst)
- Chaplin
- Avenue
- Eglinton
- Mount Pleasant
- Leaside (Bayview)
- Laird
- Sunnybrook Park (Leslie)
- Science Centre
- Aga Khan Park and Museum
- Wynford
- Sloane
- O’Connor
- Pharmacy
- Hakimi Lebovic
- Golden Mile (Warden)
- Birchmount
- Ionview
- Kennedy
