Forest Hill (TTC)

This article is about the future Eglinton LRT station. For the subway station on Line 2 Bloor–Danforth, see Bathurst (TTC).

Forest Hill
File:Bathurst LRT station store and Chan 2015-08-22.jpg Future site of the Forest Hill station entrance. House of Chan, on the left, collapsed in April 2016
Location	842 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Coordinates
Platforms	Centre platform
Tracks	2
Connections	TTC buses
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Disabled access	Yes
Architect	IBI Group Architects and SNC-Lavalin
Other information
Status	Under construction
History
Opening	2021
Services
Preceding station   TTC   Following station Cedarvale toward Mount Dennis Eglinton Opens 2020 Chaplin toward Kennedy

Forest Hill, which had a working name of Bathurst, is an LRT station under construction on the Toronto Transit Commission's Eglinton Crosstown line (Line 5). It will be located in the Forest Hill neighbourhood at the intersection of Bathurst Street and Eglinton Avenue. It is scheduled to open in 2021.

A small plaza at the northeast corner of the Eglinton and Bathurst intersection, which houses several businesses including a coffee shop and convenience store, will be demolished to make way for the main station entrance. The secondary entrance will be on the north side of Eglinton about 50 m (160 ft) west of the intersection, opposite Peveril Hill; the combined entry and service building will replace three storefronts. In the future, a possible third entrance may be added on the southwest corner adjacent to the Scotiabank. The station will connect with the 7 Bathurst bus route.

Three local landmark businesses are likely to have their stores expropriated and demolished for the construction of the station, but it is hoped that they can be relocated on this same strip of Eglinton Avenue. Properties required for the construction of the station, at 842 Eglinton Avenue West and 874–876 Eglinton Avenue West, were expropriated.

Since completion of building the station headwalls, restoration of the roadway on Bathurst Street began on 16 August 2015.

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.

On 18 April 2016, a scaffold erected across the face of the future secondary entrance collapsed, injuring seven people (three seriously). The collapsed structure was the façade of the former location of House of Chan, which is a local independent Chinese-Canadian restaurant; the restaurant itself relocated eastward along Eglinton Avenue to west of Avenue Road.

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