{"id":34067,"date":"2026-01-28T01:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/eglinton-lrt-has-targeted-opening-date-of-feb-8-ford\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T01:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:44:11","slug":"eglinton-lrt-has-targeted-opening-date-of-feb-8-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/eglinton-lrt-has-targeted-opening-date-of-feb-8-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Eglinton LRT has targeted opening date of Feb. 8: Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 A long-delayed light rail transit line in Toronto could be opening in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters at Queen\u2019s Park, Premier Doug Ford said the goal is to have the Eglinton Crosstown LRT up and running on Feb. 8.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been 15 years since construction began on the line, and six years since it was originally supposed to open.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-kilometre, 25-station line will run between Kennedy Station in east Toronto and Mount Dennis in the west.<\/p>\n<p>The province has said service will ramp up over six months and see trains as frequently as every 3 1\/2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A report last fall from the provincial transit agency Metrolinx said the project had incurred a cost of over $13 billion.<\/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\/2026\/01\/eglinton-lrt-has-targeted-opening-date-of-feb-8-ford\" 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 long-delayed light rail transit line in Toronto could be opening in less than two weeks. Speaking &#8230; <a title=\"Eglinton LRT has targeted opening date of Feb. 8: Ford\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/eglinton-lrt-has-targeted-opening-date-of-feb-8-ford\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Eglinton LRT has targeted opening date of Feb. 8: Ford\">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-34067","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\/34067","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=34067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}