Metrolinx CEO ‘not going to guess’ when Eglinton Crosstown LRT will open
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During a tour of the route's Eglinton Station, Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster said he was 'not going to guess' when the route would open.
The top staffer at Ontario’s provincial transit agency refused to be drawn on when the Eglinton Crosstown LRT might open as the much-delayed project dragged on on Friday.
During a tour of the route’s Eglinton Station, Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster said he was “not going to guess” when the route would open.
Verster spoke with reporters after a tour of the station at Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue, which builders say is the most complex on the route. The tour came as the line, which was originally due to open in 2020, continues to encounter problems and delays.
“We’re finding and fixing issues and defects,” Verster said. “Once we’re satisfied that we’ve got the rest of those contained, we can announce an opening date — but not before.”
He said the issues were being discovered on “an ongoing basis.”
At the end of November, Verster told the Metrolinx board he would not announce a date the Eglinton Crosstown LRT would open until just three months before passengers could the trains.
Pressed on the matter, he said he was “not going to guess which year it is.”
During the station tour and demonstration, Bill Gifford, president of the consortium building the project, said some tests would take months and specific conditions.
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