TTC board to mull proposal from TMU to rename Dundas Station

CBC News

· Posted: May 12, 2025 10:55 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

The TTC committee volition see a connection this week from Toronto Metropolitan University to alteration the sanction of Dundas Station to TMU Station.

A study from the TTC's main strategy and lawsuit acquisition officer, which volition beryllium presented to the committee astatine its Wednesday meeting, recommends that the committee o.k. a "partnership framework" with the assemblage that includes the renaming of the station. 

"The country astir Dundas Station has changed dramatically with the accelerated maturation of TMU, and the TTC presumption has go afloat integrated with the TMU field and pupil life," the study reads. 

"A alteration successful the presumption sanction reflects the improvement of some the section neighbourhood and university, portion aligning with the TTC signifier of naming stations aft nationalist assemblage institutions and lawsuit destinations, specified arsenic York University, Museum, Queen's Park, and Osgoode."

The study says enactment would statesman instantly if the committee approves the recommendation. It adds that enactment could beryllium done to renew the presumption arsenic good and that delaying the determination would outgo much successful the future.

"There is simply a time-sensitive and unsocial accidental to incorporated the caller sanction astatine minimal incremental disbursal and without disruption to the lawsuit experience, by aligning this presumption renaming with the roll-out of lawsuit accusation changes for the caller Line 6 Finch West," the study reads. 

TMU has besides projected that it and the TTC make an innovation hub, to beryllium called the "Transit Innovation Yard," with the intent of improving transit innovation successful Canada.

"Through this unsocial partnership, the TTC volition summation entree to cutting-edge solutions from some TMU researchers and top-tier startups, portion providing a real-world investigating crushed for transit innovation," the study says.

The study makes nary notation of nationalist consultation connected the renaming proposal.