By David Olsen- TRNTO.com
April 29, 2021
A Thornhill neighbourhood is angry and prepared to fight back against revised plans for the Yonge North Subway Extension with fewer stations and an altered route that would see the line running under their neighbourhood.
The eight-kilometre extension will bring the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) existing Line 1 subway to the cities of Vaughan, Markham and Richmond Hill.
The revamped plan from the Province of Ontario’s transit agency Metrolinx would see the extension’s originally planned six stations reduced to just four. Three stations in the plan are Yonge Street at Steeles Avenue; another station between Highways 7 and 407, formerly known as Langstaff station but now tentatively named Bridge; and a terminus station at High Tech Road in Richmond Hill.
A fourth station has yet to be chosen but would be located at Cummer Avenue, Clark Avenue or Royal Orchard Boulevard, all three of which were in previous plans for the extension.
The route’s planned alignment has now been rerouted off of Yonge Street and onto the existing CN rail corridor in the north, bringing part of the line above ground but necessitating tunneling under Thornhill’s Royal Orchard neighbourhood.
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