Metrolinx renaming Eglinton Crosstown LRTs Ontario Science Centre station [Video]

The provincial agency in charge of Eglinton Crosstown LRT and the Ontario Line says it has decided to rename the Ontario Science Centre stop on both routes after the Ford government shuttered the public attraction.

Last year, the province abruptly announced it would close the Ontario Science Centre citing structural issues, ending its operations the same day and starting to empty the hub.

The science centre will, over the next number of years, be relocated to Ontario Place as part of the government’s redevelopment plan for the waterfront.

Before it was shut down, however, the tourist attraction at Eglinton Avenue and Don Mills Road was already the namesake for stations on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT and was a terminus station on the Ontario Line.

Now, with the science centre shut down and emptied, Metrolinx has confirmed that the already-built station on the unfinished, years-delayed Eglinton Crosstown LRT will bear a new name.

Don Valley Station will be the …