{"id":32180,"date":"2025-09-06T09:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/eglinton-crosstown-light-rail-project-in-toronto-delayed-again\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:49:01","slug":"eglinton-crosstown-light-rail-project-in-toronto-delayed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/eglinton-crosstown-light-rail-project-in-toronto-delayed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Eglinton Crosstown light rail project in Toronto delayed again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 A major transit project in Toronto has been delayed yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay says there are performance and reliability issues with trains on the Eglinton Crosstown light rail project.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial agency had hoped to begin a 30-day \u201crevenue service demonstration\u201d in September, but it did not meet that target.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay hopes the delay is only a few weeks until they begin that month-long operational test of trains running along the line as they would whenever it opens to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The project was first awarded in 2015 and was scheduled to open in 2020, but has been plagued by problems.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay says they will take as long as needed to ensure the safety and reliability of the line after a boondoggle on Ottawa\u2019s light rail project that led to stoppages, delays, broken trains and a public inquiry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/infrastructure\/2025\/09\/eglinton-crosstown-light-rail-project-in-toronto-delayed-again\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] TORONTO \u2014 A major transit project in Toronto has been delayed yet again. Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay says there &#8230; <a title=\"Eglinton Crosstown light rail project in Toronto delayed again\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/eglinton-crosstown-light-rail-project-in-toronto-delayed-again\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Eglinton Crosstown light rail project in Toronto delayed again\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-32180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}