page_title: Mount Dennis
section_title: Transit
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Dennis / Transit
caption_attribution_description: Viewing Weston and Eglinton from the SW corner, 2013 04 09 -c
context_page_description: Mount Dennis is a neighbourhood in the York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Primarily located along Eglinton Avenue between the Humber River and the Kitchener commuter rail line, the neighbourhood was best known for Kodak Heights, once a major film manufacturing facility owned and operated by the Eastman Kodak Company.
context_section_description: Mount Dennis station will be the westernmost terminus of Line 5 Eglinton and a stop on the GO Transit Kitchener line when it opens in 2021. It will also feature a 15-bay bus terminal for local bus routes.  The maintenance facility for the vehicles on Line 5 will be on the site of the old Kodak plant in Mount Dennis.
  When he was a candidate for Mayor of Toronto John Tory's platform included a transit plan he called SmartTrack.  
  The centrepiece of the plan was what he called a 53 kilometres (33 mi) "surface-subway", which would run through Mount Dennis.  SmartTrack was to share the rights-of-way of existing rail lines—except for a turn-off at Mount Dennis, where he imagined the route could run parallel to Eglinton, using the right-of-way that had been set aside decades ago for the Richview Expressway.  Tory promised that, by the use of existing rights-of-way, this new transit route could be built for a modest $8 billion CAD. Unfortunately Rob Ford, the former mayor, had sold off the Richview right-of-way.  
  This would require multiple tunneled sections along Eglinton, eroding the cost-savings Tory promised.  Further, Tory's plan overlooked that the turning radius for large heavy rail vehicles would require extensive tunneling under Mount Dennis itself.
  In late 2015 Metrolinx made public its plans to include a gas-fired electrical generator on its Mount Dennis campus.
caption: The TTC operates several bus lines in the neighbourhood. The Church of St. Mary and St. Martha is visible on the right.
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