Cedarvale station
Toronto subway station
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::summary Toronto subway station ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Cedarvale |
| symbol_location | toronto |
| symbol | 1big |
| style | Toronto Transit Commission |
| image | Eglinton West Platform 01.jpg |
| address | 1300 Eglinton Avenue West |
| Toronto, Ontario | |
| country | Canada |
| coordinates | |
| other | {{Collapsible list |
| framestyle | border:none; padding:0; |
| title | TTC buses |
| 1 | Eglinton West |
| 2 | Ossington |
| 3 | Vaughan |
| 4 | Ranee |
| 5 | Castlefield |
| 6 | Eglinton West |
| 7 | Ossington |
| website | |
| structure | Underground / at grade |
| platform | {{plainlist |
| tracks | {{plainlist |
| opened | Line 1: |
| opening | Line 5: TBA |
| architect | {{plainlist |
| rebuilt | 2025 |
| accessible | yes |
| former | Eglinton West (1978–2025) |
| passengers | |
| pass_year | |
| pass_rank | |
| services | |
| other_services_header | Future services |
| other_services_collapsible | yes |
| other_services | |
| mapframe | yes |
| mapframe-zoom | 15 |
| mapframe-marker-color | #FFCB0C |
| mapframe-marker | rail-metro |
| :: |
| name = Cedarvale | symbol_location = toronto | symbol = 1big | style = Toronto Transit Commission | image = Eglinton West Platform 01.jpg | image_size = | caption = | address = 1300 Eglinton Avenue West Toronto, Ontario | country = Canada | coordinates = | other = {{Collapsible list |framestyle=border:none; padding:0; |title= TTC buses | 1= Eglinton West | 2= Ossington | 3= Vaughan | 4= Ranee | 5= Castlefield | 6= Eglinton West | 7= Ossington | website = | structure = Underground / at grade | platform = {{plainlist|
- Line 1: Side platforms
- Line 5: Centre platform | depth = | levels = | tracks = {{plainlist|
- Line 1: 2
- Line 5: 2 | parking = | bicycle = | opened = Line 1: | opening = Line 5: TBA | architect = {{plainlist|
- Arthur Erickson
- Clifford & Lawrie | closed = | rebuilt = 2025 | accessible = yes | owned = | former = Eglinton West (1978–2025) | passengers = | pass_year = | pass_rank = | services = | other_services_header = Future services | other_services_collapsible = yes | other_services= | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 15 | mapframe-marker-color = #FFCB0C | mapframe-marker = rail-metro
Cedarvale is a Toronto subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Ontario, Canada. It will be a future interchange station on Line 5 Eglinton. It is located in the median of Allen Road on the north side of Eglinton Avenue West. It was known as Eglinton West from its opening in 1978 to 7 December 2025.
Description
The station building is located on the north side of Eglinton Avenue West between the entry/exit ramps for Allen Road. The station currently has two levels: street level and the platform level for Line 1 trains. The station's pedestrian entrance, the station concourse and a bus terminal are all located at street level. The bus terminal, located in a fare-paid area, surrounds the concourse area with bays on three of its four sides.
Shortly before the opening of Line 5 Eglinton, three more station entrances were opened on 16 November 2025: one just east of the Allen Road entry ramp, another just west of the Allen Road exit ramp, and one on the south side of Eglinton Avenue just west of Everden Road. The existing entrances were retained for direct access to the bus terminal for walk-in patrons not riding the subway.
The Line 5 tunnel and platform passes under the Line 1 platforms. Above the Line 5 platform level, there is an underground concourse, constructed in conjunction with Line 5, divided in two sections by a gap where the Line 1 tracks cross. Crossover tracks to reverse Line 5 trains are located just east of the Line 5 platforms.
Architecture
The station was designed by Arthur Erickson and Clifford & Lawrie. The main ticketing and concourse area at surface level is sheltered by an exposed concrete space frame supported by eight circular columns. The concrete ceiling is, in effect, a large slab, and overhangs the entrance. With a glass curtain wall, it appears to float. Inside, it is coffered throughout the station, with skylights in certain areas, allowing for increased penetration of natural light. Eglinton West makes use of sandblasted concrete and brick wall finishes extensively, distinguishing it from most stations on Line 1 and Line 2 Bloor–Danforth, where tiles are predominant.
As the north end of the station is in Allen Road's median, the Line 1 platform level is partly built at surface level. Designers took advantage of this and added windows at platform level. The northbound platform has regular windows, allowing for a view onto Allen Road, while windows on the opposite platform were frosted during construction of the aborted Eglinton West subway in 1994. This combination of window treatments allows transit riders to view cars speeding onto Allen Road's northbound expressway lanes, while blocking views of cars stuck in traffic approaching Eglinton Avenue, where the expressway—originally planned to continue south to downtown—ends.
During July 2009, the TTC installed an $850,000 green roof over the northern end of the station to reduce maintenance costs, increase the lifespan to 40–50 years, reduce the heat island effect by lowering the temperature of the surrounding area by a few degrees, and to reduce runoff. The TTC had to repair the roof anyway, since it had been leaking since 2000. The plants atop the 835-square-metre roof are low-maintenance sedums. and stations are slated to have green roofs installed as well. File:Cedarvale TTC LRT Station, June 12 2025 (01).jpg|alt=Photo of a modern, glass-panelled light rail station entrance under construction, which appears largely complete|New station main entrance built as part of the Line 5 Eglinton project File:Eglinton West station Concourse 2024.jpg|Cedarvale station concourse
Art
The station's artwork, on two enamel murals facing each other at the Line 1 platforms, is Summertime Streetcar by Gerald Zeldin, is a montage of PCC streetcars from differing perspectives. The artwork is two storeys high and is located in the appropriately high ceiling section of the platform level.
As part of a program to install artworks at major interchange stations along Line 5 Eglinton, the station also features the artwork Super Signals by Douglas Coupland consisting of aluminum panels with brightly coloured concentric circles against a background of black and white diagonal lines. The artwork is an exaggeration of traditional wayfinding graphics. File:New concourse at Cedarvale (formerly Eglinton West) Station.jpg|Cedarvale station new concourse level with Super Signals in the background File:Eglinton West TTC Summertime Streetcar.jpg|Summertime Streetcar at the Line 1 platforms
Line 1 infrastructure in the vicinity
South of the station, Line 1 continues underground below Everden Road to reach the Cedarvale Ravine, then continues southeast below the ravine. Moving northward, tracks continue on the surface, in the median of Allen Road.
History
| align = left | image1 = Eglinton West former name Cedarvale station.jpg | width1 = 220 | caption1 = The original Eglinton West name in Univers lettering on the surface portion of the platform | image2 = CedarvaleStationSign.jpg | width2 = 220 | caption2 = The Cedarvale station name in white-on-black Toronto Subway lettering in the underground area of the platform | direction = vertical}} The station opened as Eglinton West in 1978, as part of the Line 1 extension from to station.
Eglinton West had been planned to be an interchange station as part of the proposed Eglinton West line (not to be confused with the later Eglinton Crosstown line). This was one of the three proposed subway lines in the Network 2011 Plan created in 1985 by the Toronto Transit Commission. The project was cancelled in 1995 after the election of a Progressive Conservative government led by Mike Harris. Afterwards, the small amount of tunnel that had been dug under the station was refilled.
Since October 2005, the station has been wheelchair accessible. | url = http://myttc.ca/eglinton_west_station | title = Eglinton West Station | publisher = MyTTC.ca | access-date = 8 May 2015 | archive-date = 26 April 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090426071601/http://myttc.ca/eglinton_west_station
In December 2012, commuter parking lots formerly located east and west of the station building on the north side of Eglinton Avenue were taken out of service, leaving no immediately adjacent parking. The lots were used as staging areas for the tunnel boring machines (TBMs) during the construction of Line 5 Eglinton. On the weekend of 18 and 19 April 2015, the TBMs Dennis and Lea were extracted from the east-side staging area and then transported on a heavy truck trailer to relaunch from the west-side staging area. The two staging areas will each be the location of a new station entrance.
On 16 November 2025, the additional station entrances constructed as part of Line 5 were opened. With these entrances open, work also began to gradually change the name from Eglinton West to Cedarvale. The name change officially took effect on 7 December 2025.
Nearby landmarks
Nearby landmarks include the York–Eglinton BIA, Little Jamaica, and the Oakwood Village and Humewood–Cedarvale neighbourhoods.
Surface connections
Main article: List of Toronto Transit Commission bus routes
TTC routes serving the station include: ::data[format=table title="Eglinton West station surface transit connections"]
| Bay number | Route | Name | Additional information | Spare | 63A | 32A/C | 90 | Wheel-Trans | 32A | 32D | 32C | 109B | 109C | 164 | 332 | 363 | Future: to be implemented upon the opening of Line 5 Eglinton | 34 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Ossington | Southbound to Liberty Village | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Eglinton West | Eastbound to Eglinton station | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Vaughan | Southbound to St. Clair West station | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Eglinton West | Westbound to Renforth station | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Westbound to Jane Street and Emmett Avenue via Mount Dennis station | |||||||||||||||||
| (This station is the eastern terminus for this route) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Westbound to Jane Street and Trethewey Drive | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Ranee | Northbound to Neptune Drive via Marlee Avenue and Flemington Road | ||||||||||||||||
| Northbound to Neptune Drive via Marlee Avenue and Varna Drive | ||||||||||||||||||
| Castlefield | Westbound to Mount Dennis station via Keelesdale station | |||||||||||||||||
| Eglinton West | Blue Night service; eastbound to Eglinton Station and westbound to Renforth Drive and Pearson Airport | |||||||||||||||||
| (On-street transfer) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ossington | Blue Night service; southbound to Exhibition Loop | |||||||||||||||||
| (On-street transfer) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Eglinton | Westbound to Mount Dennis station and eastbound to Kennedy station | |||||||||||||||||
| To replace all branches of bus route 32 Eglinton West at this station | ||||||||||||||||||
| :: |
Notes
References
References
- "Eglinton Crosstown will open no earlier than mid-2025, TTC chair says". CBC News.
- "Eglinton West Station (Station Description)". [[Toronto Transit Commission]].
- (2008). "Eglinton West Subway Station". Bob Krawczyk.
- Kalinowski, Tess. (4 August 2009). "Green roof takes root at Eglinton West". [[Toronto Star]].
- "Artists and Artworks". [[Metrolinx]].
- (17 December 2012). "Eglinton West TTC commuter lots closing Dec 21st for conversion to construction staging". Metrolinx.
- Mitanis, Marcus. (20 April 2015). "Crosstown LRT Tunnel Boring Machines Successfully Moved". [[UrbanToronto]].
- (13 October 2016). "Cedarvale (formerly Eglinton West) Station". [[Metrolinx]].
- Transmania (uploader). (16 November 2025). "TTC Cedarvale Station Opening Tour".
- "Eglinton West Station".
- (2 December 2025). "TTC to officially rename Dundas and Eglinton West stations this weekend". Toronto Star.
- (24 November 2025). "Line 6 Finch West to open on December 7". Toronto Transit Commission.
- Bow, James. (25 December 2016). "63 Ossington". Transit Toronto.
- (17 November 2023). "2024 Annual Service Plan". [[Toronto Transit Commission]].
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