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In May 2012, TTC staff released a report saying that completion of the Eglinton Crosstown was unlikely by 2020 and that a more realistic in-service date would be 2022–2023. The main reason given was that the project management had been transferred from the TTC to Infrastructure Ontario, which uses the Alternative Finance and Procurement strategy.
Eglinton station is the only one of the original 1954 subway stations (Eglinton to Union on Line 1) to retain its original vitreous marble wall tiles. The other 1954 subway stations used similar wall tiles with variations in colour schemes, but at the other stations, the tiles were replaced because of deterioration.
In November 2017, the project was mostly unfunded, with the cost estimated at $1.6 to $1.7 billion, with an estimated completion date of 2023. [14] [17] At a November 2017 public meeting, city staff presented the possibility of extending the Eglinton East LRT by six stops to Malvern Town Centre.
Line 5 Eglinton (also known as the Eglinton Crosstown LRT) is an under-construction 19-kilometre (12 mi) light rail line along Eglinton Avenue, planned to run from Kennedy station in the east to Mount Dennis station in the west. [12]
In July 2019, the estimated completion date was 2027. By December 2020, the completion date had been revised to 2030. Metrolinx said that the original completion date was based on market conditions that since 2019 had changed dramatically. [41] By November 2022, the completion date was being reported as 2031. [5]
The Eglinton line uses Flexity Freedom vehicles on 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge and is not connected to the Toronto streetcar system, which uses 4 ft 10 + 7 ⁄ 8 in (1,495 mm) Toronto gauge. The facility was substantially complete in October 2018, [7] and was ready for the delivery of the first Flexity Freedom vehicle on ...
The Eglinton Crosstown West extension will extend the under-construction Line 5 Eglinton west to Renforth station and Pearson International Airport by 2030 or 2031 and will be mostly underground. The line will travel through all six of Toronto's districts that were amalgamated in 1998 and bring the subway to Mississauga .
The due date for the acceptance of the first six vehicles is July 1, 2020. Line 5 Eglinton requires only 42 of 76 vehicles ordered for opening day (sometime in 2024), but Metrolinx expects the first 42 to be delivered by August 1, 2021. The deadline for the balance is March 31, 2022.