Eglinton LRT completion date delayed one year until Sept. 2022
Posted December 22, 2021 3:57 pm.
Last Updated December 22, 2021 4:03 pm.
The Eglinton Crosstown LRT has a new completion date after a settlement was reached on outstanding claims by Metrolinx, the province and the company in charge of building the project.
According to a statement released by Metrolinx, the line is now scheduled for completion in September 2022 – one year after the $5.5 billion light rail system it was originally scheduled to open.
As for when it will officially start ferrying passengers, Metrolinx says the in-service date for passenger revenue “may be several months later.”
Under a $325 million settlement between Metrolinx, Infrastructure Ontario and Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS) have agreed to settle a number of outstanding claims which have impacted the 19-kilometre project. Among them, the impact COVID-19 has had on the project schedule and an existing structural defect at Eglinton Line 1 station.
However, Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario continue to disagree with an earlier court ruling that CTS was entitled to costs related to COVID-19.
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“As part of this settlement, CTS is prevented from making future claims on a variety of issues that are now considered fully settled,” Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster and Infrastructure Ontario CEO Michael Lindsay said in the joint statement on Wednesday. “Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario continue to strongly disagree with any finding of claim entitlement for COVID-19 causes under the CTS Project Agreement and are appealing the court’s decision.”
Construction on the light rail transit line, also known as Line 5, began in the summer of 2011. It stretches from Kennedy station in Scarborough, heading west to Mount Dennis, just east of the Humber River.
