East Harbour Transit Hub Main Building Construction Begins
Written by Jennifer McLawhorn, Managing Editor
Artist’s rendering of the future East Harbour Transit Hub. Designs are subject to change. (Metrolinx image)
TORONTO - Construction has begun on Metrolinx's East Harbour Transit Hub, a new interchange station, in Toronto.
Located east of the Don Valley Parkway and south of Eastern Avenue, the interchange station will serve the Riverdale, Riverside and Leslieville communities. The hub will be part of a 38-acre Transit-Oriented Community, and it will connect to the Lakeshore East and Stouffville GO lines and the future Ontario Line subway, expanding service with an estimated future 100,000 daily riders. It will become Toronto’s second-busiest station and reduce crowding at Union Station by up to 14% or 14,000 people, according to Metrolinx.
Major construction work began on the interchange hub last year with crews completing excavation and drilling work. Now, Metrolinx reports crews are working on the station’s foundations and pouring concrete for the main station building. Elsewhere, crews are working to widen the Eastern Avenue bridge to allow for six tracks, four for GO and two for the Ontario Line.
Additionally, once completed, the hub will have modern passenger concourses for the GO and Ontario Line, three island platforms (two for GO and one for the Ontario Line), bike parking, connections to the future Broadview Avenue extension, and stair and elevators to rail platforms. Below is a YouTube video, courtesy of Metrolinx, that shows the hub’s construction thus far.
