Renforth station
Renforth is a bus station on the border of the cities of Mississauga and Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. Located at Eglinton Avenue and Renforth Drive, it is the eastern terminus of the Mississauga Transitway and is close to the interchange between Highways 401 and 427.
Service consists of bus rapid transit on the Mississauga Transitway, local MiWay and Toronto Transit Commission bus routes, GO Transit express routes on the Highway 401 / Highway 407 corridor and an express connection to 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 station site, referred to during planning as Renforth Gateway, was identified by Metrolinx in 2012 as a transportation mobility hub, which would integrate bus rapid transit and local bus service.Construction of the station began in 2014. The old TTC bus loop located at the northwest corner of Renforth and Eglinton was decommissioned and incorporated into the site.
Bus routes
GO Transit
- 19 Mississauga / North York
- 25K Waterloo / Mississauga
- 29 Mississauga/Guelph
- 40 Hamilton / Richmond Hill Pearson Express
- 94 Pickering / Square One
MiWay
- 7 Airport
- 24 Northwest
- 35 Eglinton
- 39 Britannia
- 43 Matheson
- 57/57A Courtneypark
- 74 Explorer
- 107 Malton Express
- 109 Meadowvale Express
- 135 Eglinton Express
TTC
- 32A Eglinton West
- 112 West Mall
- 332 Eglinton West Blue Night
Future Line 5 Eglinton connection
In December 2021, parts of the tunnel boring machines that would bore the twin tunnels eastwards along Eglinton from a launch shaft at the future station site arrived and were assembled prior to excavation. The first TBM, dubbed Renny, began tunnelling in April 2022 but the second, named Rexy, started later, by early August, as the launch area was only wide enough to launch one TBM at a time. Tunnelling was completed two years later, with Renny breaking through the extraction shaft near Scarlett Road in May 2024 and Rexy breaking through three weeks later.
A proposed third phase of the line would extend and turn north, where it would terminate at the proposed Pearson Regional Transit Centre located north of Toronto Pearson International Airport Terminals 1 and 3. As an interim project, land was preserved for future dedicated bus lanes to the airport.