Oakwood station (Toronto)

Oakwood is an underground light rail transit (LRT) station under construction on Line 5 Eglinton, a new line that is part of the Toronto subway system. It will be located in the Little Jamaica neighbourhood at the intersection of Oakwood Avenue and Eglinton Avenue. It is scheduled to open in 2022.
Both entrances replace existing storefronts; the main entry will be located directly at the northern end of Oakwood Avenue, while the secondary will be on the south side of Eglinton some west between Oakwood Avenue and Times Road. The station will provide outdoor space to park 24 bicycles.
Local Member of Provincial Parliament Mike Colle organized a petition that led to a station at Oakwood being added to the Crosstown plan. The main destination will be the Eglinton West commercial strip.
Construction.
The "National Post" reported that contractors who thought they were pumping grout into holes they had drilled had filled a sewer near Oakwood station with cement, shortly before Christmas 2013.
The report quoted local business leader Nick Alampi, who said, due to Metrolinx attitude, his section of the Avenue "almost feels like it's the wild, wild west." The report asserted the accident increased local displeasure with the construction period. Locals had initially been mystified when sewage had backed up into their basements.
In March 2015, the east-west laneway south of Eglinton, near the station, was named Reggae Lane.
Alampi credited the building of the station as a trigger to redeveloping the lane. The lane had once been the heart of Toronto's recording of Reggae music.
In June 2015, Metrolinx plans to expropriate a barbershop near the station triggered comment.
The owners, Maureen and Ian Young, told the "CBC News" that Metrolinx had failed to contact them, prior to announcing the expropriation in a local paper.
The secondary exit would replace Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen; the fried chicken restaurant moved to a new location one block west of Dufferin on Eglinton.
An overhead crane was assembled on the pile wall at the site of the station's main entrance. According to Metrolinx, this is the first time in Canada an overhead crane has been used over an open excavation. The site had no space to install a more typical tower crane or a luffing crane. The crane stands 12 metres tall and weighs 35 tons. It went into operation in mid-September 2017.
Oakwood station will be built by "mining" rather than cut-and-cover. Mining activities began in October 2017.
Surface connections.
The following routes would serve this station according to the report presented at the board meeting on February 25, 2016: