Former proposed light rail line in Toronto, Canada
Sheppard East LRT
Overview
Status
Cancelled
Owner
Metrolinx
Locale
Toronto, Ontario
Termini
Don Mills Meadowvale
Stations
26[1]
Service
Type
Light rail
System
Toronto subway
Operator(s)
Toronto Transit Commission
Rolling stock
Flexity Freedom
Technical
Line length
13 km (8.1 mi)[2]
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification
750 V DC overhead
Route map
Line 4 Sheppard
to Sheppard–Yonge
Don Mills
Highway 404
Consumers
Victoria Park
Pharmacy
Palmdale
Warden
Bay Mills
Birchmount
Allanford
Kennedy
Highland Creek
Bendale Branch
Agincourt
Stouffville line
Midland
Canadian Pacific Railway
Brimley
Brownspring
McCowan
Highland Creek
Markham Branch
White Haven
Shorting
Massie
Markham
Progress
Highland Creek
Malvern Branch
Washburn
Burrows
Neilson
Murison
Brenyon
Morningside
Maintenance facility
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The Sheppard East LRT was a proposed light rail line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was first announced as part of the Transit City proposal in 2007. The Sheppard East LRT as proposed was to be 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) long, travel along Sheppard Avenue from Don Mills subway station to east of Morningside Avenue, and be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).
In May 2009, funding was approved by the provincial and federal governments.[3] In December 2010, Toronto mayor Rob Ford cancelled the line, along with the rest of Transit City, in favour of constructing underground subway lines. However, in March 2012, Toronto city council re-instated the Sheppard East LRT at a special city council meeting.[4] In 2016, it was reported that the line had been indefinitely deferred and would possibly be replaced by a competing proposal to extend Line 4 Sheppard.[5][6] In April 2019, Ontario premier Doug Ford announced that the provincial government would extend Line 4 Sheppard to McCowan Road at some unspecified time in the future, replacing the proposed Sheppard East LRT.[7]
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^"Metrolinx Etobicoke-Finch West LRT Environmental Project Report Executive Summary" (PDF). Retrieved November 4, 2014.
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^"Federal funding shuffle casts doubt on Sheppard LRT". Toronto Star. Retrieved November 20, 2018.
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right-of-way to Sheppard Avenue, where Line 3 could connect with either a proposed extension of Line 4 Sheppard or the SheppardEastLRT. The TTC and the...
connect with the SheppardEastLRT and create a seamless crosstown LRT line in northern Toronto to parallel the Eglinton Crosstown LRT (later designated...
cancelled the line after taking office in December 2010. While LRT lines on SheppardEast, Finch West, and Eglinton were revived through a new agreement...
along Finch Avenue East and Don Mills Road into Don Mills station. This would connect with the SheppardEastLRT and Line 4 Sheppard, and create a seamless...
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government would extend Line 4 Sheppard to McCowan Road at some unspecified time in the future, replacing the proposed SheppardEastLRT. The new underpass improves...
again at Sheppard Avenue and McCowan Road. Jane LRT Urban rail transit in Canada Consiglio, Alex (October 3, 2012). "TTC to operate city's new LRT lines"...
along Sheppard Avenue. In March 2007, however, the TTC dropped this plan when it announced its Transit City proposal to build the SheppardEastLRT. The...
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to implement four new light rail transit lines in Toronto: SheppardEastLRT Finch West LRT Line 5 Eglinton Replacement of Line 3 Scarborough. These projects...
Transit City lines after the SheppardEastLRT and Etobicoke–Finch West LRT (later reconstituted as the Finch West LRT). Unlike the other Transit City...
Avenue and Sheppard Avenue East is closed since the early 2000s and the property was to be redeveloped concurrent with the SheppardEastLRT's construction;...
Line 7 Eglinton East. There is also potential for an eastward subway extension of Line 4 Sheppard, to replace the former SheppardEastLRT project, that...
Government of Canada. Metrolinx put a stop to the construction of the SheppardEastLRT, which was already started. Ford set up an agency to study funding...
Jane LRT was cancelled by Rob Ford in December 2010 when he announced the cancellation of the entire Transit City project. While LRT lines on Sheppard East...
hour train service to Hamilton. This line, now divided as the Lakeshore East and Lakeshore West lines is the keystone corridor of GO Transit, and continued...
pay for an extension to the Sheppard subway were rejected. Chong later endorsed the construction of a SheppardEastLRT instead of a subway. Chong had...
Eglinton Crosstown line, was then reinstated along with a Finch LRT line and SheppardLRT by Toronto City Council, over Mayor Rob Ford's objections. This...
under construction – 28 of which will be street-running light rail transit (LRT) stops – and 5 former stations. The subway system encompasses three lines...
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