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Eglinton LRT opening date uncertain as Metrolinx CEO dodges 2024 commitment

Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster commits to announce an opening date within three months from the projects' completion, which seems to indicate that it will hardly be ready by the end of 2024.

Published Sep 4, 2024 at 9:23pm

Barbara Patrocinio
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Barbara Patrocinio
Eglinton LRT opening date uncertain as Metrolinx CEO dodges 2024 commitment
Ontario's Minister of Transportation Prabmeet Sarkaria attend Question Period at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on November 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Despite years of delays to the Eglinton LRT, the 25-stop, 19-kilometre line that will run from Kennedy Station in the east to Mount Dennis station in the west, the CEO of Metrolinx wouldn’t commit to an opening date by the end of 2024.

Instead, he said that "relentless" progress has been made.

“I’m very glad to say that progress on the Eglinton crosstown project has been established. A couple of significant milestones have been achieved and we have been relentlessly progressing towards an opening date,” Phil Verster said.

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