GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

[Dan416]

But they're renaming the one which is actually different from the others. We're moving in the wrong direction...

The largest offender in this region is Eglinton, Eglinton, Eglinton, and Eglinton West, good thing they’re renaming one of them!

If Metrolinx was competent it would be easy peasy to fix this.

Eglinton on the Yonge line would be Eglinton-Yonge (following the convention of Sheppard-Yonge and Bloor-Yonge). There's really no excuse to leave this station named as Eglinton. If you don't want to spend the money to change the name in the existing station, you could easily just make the signage on the Eglinton LRT show the station as Yonge station the way they do at Bloor-Yonge with the Bloor line showing Yonge and the Yonge line showing Bloor, with the combined complex called Bloor-Yonge.

Eglinton on the Hurontario line would be Eglinton-Hurontario.

Eglinton West would be Eglinton-Allen (I am not a fan of the Cedarvale name).

Eglinton GO -- GO stations are usually named after communities, according to the City of Toronto neighbourhood map, this area is called Eglinton East, which isn't very helpful tbh. I guess we can just go with the closest intersection and call it Eglinton-Bellamy?

 

[Willybru21]

Sorry, what’s the third “Eglinton?” There’s the TTC and GO stations, but the other one?

Be thankful you’re not in Chicago, where there are three L stations named “Chicago.”

Eglinton GO, Eglinton Line 1, Eglinton West Line 1 (soon to be renamed to Cedarvale), and Eglinton Line 10 on Hurontario.

 

[drum118]

Yeah, looking at Google maps, I see what you're saying. I wonder if the Province has put any thought into moving the provincial sign shop. Although I doubt that would solve the issue with Etobicoke North and the tunnels. Islington would probably be a better location. Somewhere just south of Lowe's Pl?

What's the deal with Resource Rd. and the 401 tunnels?

The easy way to deal with Etobicoke North is build a parking structure like it has been done to numerous GO stations and build a couple of tunnels and elevators for the relocation of the existing platform to the west.

At some point in time, the Finch LRT .line will go to the airport and how it will get there is another story, but the LRT could remain in a trench next to Hwy 27 before it has to be tunnel to the airport.

As for naming the station, it should be Rexdale, not Woodbine from my point of view.

 

[lenaitch]

True... The original Woodbine racetrack was moved to this site and the original renamed Greenwood. However, having two distant stations with the same name could create confusion! (I feel the same about East Harbour and West Harbour, which are no where near each other)

Sort of. Both the old and new racetracks operated simultaneously for several years under the names New Woodbine and Old Woodbine, then Old Woodbine became known as Greenwood. New Woodbine was all thoroughbred and Old Woodbine was both thoroughbred and standardbred.