Ontario transportation minister has 100% confidence in Eglinton Crosstown LRT builders [Video]

Ontario’s transportation minister says he remains confident in both Metrolinx and the company building the years-delayed Eglinton Crosstown LRT as the window for the project to open this year narrows.

Provincial transit agency Metrolinx has promised to announce the date the controversial line will open three months before it begins carrying passengers. That leaves just 12 days for the date to be announced before the lack of news means another calendar year will have passed without trains carrying passengers.

Asked on Wednesday if he could officially rule out a 2024 opening date for the Eglinton LRT and accept it wouldn’t be open to the public until 2025, Minister of Transportation Prabmeet Sarkaria was non-committal.

“As I said in the past, we’re making great progress on some of the milestones in the testing and commissioning phase of the Crosstown project,” he said. “And we’ll continue to update as that moves forward.”

Despite another year …