Sunnybrook Park LRT station

This article is about the future Eglinton LRT station. For the subway station on Line 4 Sheppard, see Leslie (TTC).

Sunnybrook Park
File:Parts of panoramas of intersections where there will be Eglinton Crosstown LRT stations, GPS embedded, taken 2013 04 25 (168).JPG (8681555441).jpg Looking east from Leslie St along Eglinton Ave East at the site of the future light rail station platforms
Location	Eglinton Ave at Leslie St Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates
Platforms	Side platform
Tracks	2
Connections	TTC buses
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Other information
Status	Under construction
History
Opening	2021
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Laird toward Mount Dennis Eglinton Opens 2020 Science Centre toward Kennedy

Sunnybrook Park, which had a working name of Leslie, is a planned LRT station on the Toronto Transit Commission's Eglinton Crosstown line. It will be located at the intersection of Leslie Street and Eglinton Avenue. The intersection is largely surrounded by park lands in the valley of the West Branch of the Don River, which includes destinations such as E.T. Seton Park, Serena Gundy Park, Wilket Creek Park, Sunnybrook Park and Edwards Gardens. The Crosstown line is scheduled to open in 2020.

The original plan was for Sunnybrook Park to be the westernmost at grade station.

The station was the subject of controversy. Metrolinx, the provincial agency with overall responsibility for managing transit throughout the Greater Toronto Area, announced the station would be cancelled in early 2013, due to a change of route. The station is anticipated to be the least used on the line.

By November 2013, when the contract to bore the eastern portion of the tunnel from Laird to Yonge Street the decision had been made for the track to emerge into the middle of Eglinton just east of Laird at Brentcliffe Road. Some commentators have suggested that, since Leslie and Eglinton is a T-shaped intersection, and the next station east, Science Centre, will be an underground station because a Don Mills LRT line or the Downtown Relief Line may also stop there, the track between Laird and Don Mills could run south of Eglinton, not in the middle of the avenue.

In a report to the TTC Board on 23 November 2015 it was recommended that stations on Line 5 Eglinton LRT should be given unique names.

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