Will the Eglinton Crosstown LRT open in 2024? Metrolinx is not going to speculate [Video]

The head of the Ontario government’s transit agency insists the years-delayed Eglinton Crosstown LRT is “relentlessly progressing” and has ticked off some “significant milestones” but remains without an opening date.

Metrolinx, the provincial transit agency, has refused to confirm when the line will open for more than a year, promising it will announce a date exactly three months before trains begin carrying passengers.

On Wednesday, Sept. 4, Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster again declined to say when the line would open, meaning trains won’t run until at least Dec. 5, 2024. That leaves just weeks for the government to unveil a date that guarantees the line will open this year.

Asked if the LRT could still feasibly open in 2024, Verster said guessing or speculating was not helpful in delivering the project.

“By starting to speculate about dates, you create fictitious sort of deadlines and the like,” he said at a news conference touting progress on the Ontario Line.