Corktown Station
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Corktown Station is rapid transit station scheduled to be built in downtown Toronto, Canada, as part of the new Ontario Line.[1] The station is scheduled to be built near the southwest corner of Parliament Street and King Street. The next station to the west will be Moss Park Station, near Sherbourne Street and Queen Street. The next station to the east will be East Harbour Station, approximately 1.7 kilometre away, near Broadview Avenue and Queeen Street. East Harbour Station will interconnect with GO Transit commuter trains, and new [[light rail connections to new development to the south in Toronto's Portlands.
Commuters using Corktown Station will be able to tranfer to or from the Toronto Transit Commission's 504 King streetcar route - currently its most used surface route.[1]
The Ontario Line was announced in 2018, shortly after Premier Doug Ford's government assumed office. Ford projected completion in 2030.
The site of the station will be the site where tunnel boring machines will be lowered to drill horizontal tunnels for the route.[2]
Metrolinx asserts the station will trigger the development of new office space and new housing within the station's 800 metre catchment for foot traffic.[2]
Corktown Station will be built near Upper Canada's historic first legislature building.[2] American invader burnt the tiny legislature to the ground, during the War of 1812, and a British expeditionary force briefly occopied Washington DC and burned The White House, and other government buildings, in retaliation.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Attachment 4 – Assessment of Ontario Line". City of Toronto. https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2019/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-138946.pdf. Retrieved 2021-06-15. "The Corktown station will be located west of Parliament Street near King Street, instead of near King Street/Sumach Street/Eastern Avenue as proposed by the Relief Line South. This station will provide a new connection to buses on Parliament Street, but will be more distant from the developing area in the West Don Lands, as compared to the Sumach station."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Corktown Station Early Works Report brings Ontario Line another step closer to reality". Metrolinx. 2021-05-12. https://blog.metrolinx.com/2021/05/12/corktown-station-early-works-report-brings-ontario-line-another-step-closer-to-reality/. Retrieved 2021-06-15. "The report highlights the area as two blocks – one referred to as the North site, located to the north of Front Street, and one referred to as the South site, which contains the former site of the First Parliament of Upper Canada, to the south of Front Street."
