Eglinton LRT Delayed Another 5 Years To Allow For Moving Of “Science Centre” Stop

Toronto - With the Ford government having announced their plan to relocated the Ontario Science Centre to Ontario Place in 2028, Metrolinx has similarity revealed they now plan to move the Science Centre station (a future stop for Eglinton Line 5 and the Ontario Line) to Ontario Place as well, coinciding with the opening of the new science museum.

“We intended to build a station that would help residents of this city better access the Science Centre, and when Metrolinx makes a promise everyone knows they always deliver,” said company president Phil Verster, “One way or another, we will get riders of Line 5 to the Science Centre no matter where it is.”

Verster said the plan was to build an addition 30 feet tall elevated track that would detour from Sunnybrook Park station, travel through the downtown core to Ontario Place, then along the waterfront and up the Don River to the Aga Khan Park Station. The new route will add approximately 45 minutes of travel between the two stations and will cost an additional $175 million.

Locals opposed to the additional 33 kilometres of railway are urging Metrolinx to simply rename Science Centre station back to Don Mills station, but Metrolinx has pushed back saying that would create a precedent that the company doesn’t deliver what they promise.