Long-delayed Eglinton LRT to begin month-long final test, Metrolinx CEO says

The head of Metrolinx, Ontario’s regional public-transit agency, has said Toronto’s long-delayed Eglinton Crosstown light-rail transit line could begin a final, 30-day dress-rehearsal test this week – but he still would not commit to a concrete opening date.

In an interview with The Globe and Mail on Monday, Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay said his agency and the Toronto Transit Commission, which will operate the 19-kilometre line, are finalizing plans to start what they call a “revenue-service demonstration” as early as this week – five years after the troubled line, hampered by technical glitches and litigation, was supposed to open.