Metrolinx CEO promises fewer legal battles on future Ontario transit projects | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] The head of Metrolinx is acknowledging the provincial transit agency has spent too much time embroiled in legal battles with its contractors, pledging a new approach after finally finishing the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. The light rail route carried its first passengers on Feb. 8, roughly six years after it was originally scheduled to open, […]
Eglinton Crosstown LRT officially opens in Toronto without pomp or ceremony | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] More than 5,000 days after construction began in Toronto, the Crosstown LRT will finally begin carrying passengers along Eglinton Avenue. Around 7:30 a.m. Sunday, the first train will start its journey westward from Kennedy Station in Scarborough, past connections to the Yonge/University subway line, to terminate at Mount Dennis Station in the west. The […]
The Eglinton Crosstown LRT finally opens Sunday, ushering in a new era for the street | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] When soil testing machines were first rolled out on Eglinton Avenue around 2008 to prepare for a potential light rail line, local business owner Anita Dimitrijevic found them “pretty scary.” But they were only the start. Work on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT would continue until early this year, spanning political parties, governments, construction firms […]