Caledonia station


Caledonia is an underground light rail transit station under on Line 5 Eglinton, part of the Toronto subway system. It will be located along Eglinton Avenue between the GO Transit Barrie rail corridor and the entrance to the Westside Mall. It is about west of Caledonia Road opposite Blackthorn Avenue.
In April 2014, the station's headwalls were tunnelled through. its opening has been postponed, with no new opening date provided.

Description

The main entrance will face Eglinton Avenue West and have a small station plaza. The station will include a bus loop with two bus bays, outdoor parking for 60 bicycles and retail spaces within the main entrance at ground level.
The underground station platform will be located on the north side of the Eglinton Avenue directly under the main entrance. The station design provides an opportunity to bring sunlight from this entrance down to the platform level via an open shaft from the upper concourse.
As part of a program to install artworks at major interchange stations along Line 5 Eglinton, Caledonia station will feature the artwork Ride of Your Life by Janice Kerbel, consisting of a series of large-scale mosaic wall works which will be visible from the Line 5 platform level. The artwork shows mosaic images of signage with multiple typefaces and sizes.

Caledonia GO Station

In May 2015, Metrolinx announced plans to add Caledonia as a future stop on the GO Transit Barrie line. Construction of the GO portion of the station was expected to take two years and began in October 2025.
The LRT station will be integrated with the planned GO station. There will be a pedestrian bridge connecting the GO station to the LRT station's main entrance. The GO station will have a second entrance at its north end where both the York Beltline Trail and Bowie Avenue end. In future, through the GO Transit [Regional Express Rail|Regional Rail Express] project, a second track is planned for the GO line to enable all-day, two-way GO train service.

Surface connections

, the following are the proposed connecting routes that would serve this station when Line 5 Eglinton opens:
RouteNameAdditional information
18CaledoniaNorthbound to Yorkdale station
34EglintonWestbound to Mount Dennis station and eastbound to Kennedy station
47LansdowneSouthbound to Queen Street