{"id":34155,"date":"2026-02-03T13:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/eglinton-lrt-will-finally-open-this-sunday-toronto-transit-commission-ceo-confirms\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:57:18","slug":"eglinton-lrt-will-finally-open-this-sunday-toronto-transit-commission-ceo-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/eglinton-lrt-will-finally-open-this-sunday-toronto-transit-commission-ceo-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Eglinton LRT will finally open this Sunday, Toronto Transit Commission CEO confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013\u00a0 The CEO of the Toronto Transit Commission has confirmed the long-awaited Eglinton light rail transit line will open this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Mandeep Lali told a TTC board meeting that it will be a phased opening as service ramps up over time.<\/p>\n<p>He says riding the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will be free on Sunday.\u00a0<\/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, and the province has said service will ramp up over six months.<\/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\/projects\/2026\/02\/breaking-eglinton-lrt-will-finally-open-this-sunday-toronto-transit-commission-ceo-confirms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] TORONTO \u2013\u00a0 The CEO of the Toronto Transit Commission has confirmed the long-awaited Eglinton light rail transit line will &#8230; <a title=\"Eglinton LRT will finally open this Sunday, Toronto Transit Commission CEO confirms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/eglinton-lrt-will-finally-open-this-sunday-toronto-transit-commission-ceo-confirms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Eglinton LRT will finally open this Sunday, Toronto Transit Commission CEO confirms\">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-34155","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\/34155","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=34155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}