History
Eglinton Station was opened in 1954 as the northern terminus of the original Yonge subway line. Original stations on this line used a similar vitreous marble tiling scheme with variations in colour combinations, but Eglinton Station is the only one to retain its original tiles, which had not deteriorated like at the other stations with the glass tiles.
On April 23, 2007, TTC employee Antonio Almeida was killed in the tunnel just north of the station when a platform on their work car dislodged.
The Transit City plan called for a new Eglinton Crosstown LRT line, running along Eglinton Avenue from Toronto Pearson International Airport and Mississauga to Kennedy Station, passing through the station and Eglinton West Station on the way.
Mayor Rob Ford announced the cancellation of Transit City on the day that he took office. However, a redesigned Eglinton–Scarborough Crosstown line along with a Sheppard line extension was announced four months later, with the support of Metrolinx and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.
Read more about this topic: Eglinton (TTC)
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“You that would judge me do not judge alone
This book or that, come to this hallowed place
Where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon;
Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace;
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)