Despite the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit (LRT) facing multiple setbacks throughout the project, the president and CEO of Metrolinx says the coronavirus pandemic isn’t jeopardizing the opening of the line in 2022. “It’s all new.
The playbook has changed. COVID has changed how we do stuff and that has been important for us,” Phil Verster told Global News during a tour of Mount Dennis station, the western terminus of the line.
The $5.3-billion project recently marked a notable milestone at the Mount Dennis station. A LRT train was able to leave the Mount Dennis storage facility and travel over an elevated section of track and enter into an underground section of the 19-kilometre, 25-stop line east of Black Creek Drive.