Finally, Eglinton Avenue is getting the new light rail service (LRT). Now transit users will have a fast and frequent way to go across central Toronto. It will hopefully make our neighbourhood better for pedestrians while helping with the traffic congestion along Eglinton Avenue West. Click here to view the map

In the current preliminary plans for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, there is a stop planned for Eglinton Ave. W. at Oakwood Ave. That will make it very convenient for employees and shoppers to get off in the neighbourhood. The York-Eglinton BIA and its members would like to ensure that the stop at Eglinton and Oakwood remains in the plans and gets built. We need a stop between the Eglinton West subway station and Dufferin St. Click here to see a copy of the letter that the York-Eglinton BIA has submitted to the public consultation unit that is planning the transit project.

Open houses to explain the project were held throughout August and early September. If you weren’t able to attend a meeting, you can learn more about the transit project at www.toronto.ca/involved/projects/eglinton_crosstown_lrt/index.htm. Click Here to view the Open House Display Panels. Click here to view the FAQ of the project.

If you have any comments or recommendations to help the project team, you can send comments until September 10th via email, fax or mail to: Public Consultation Unit
City of Toronto
55 John St., 19th Floor,
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3C6
Email: eglintontransit@toronto.ca
Fax: 416-392-2974

Notice for upcoming new open houses for the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit Project (LRT) in June, 2009

The Open House in our area is June 23, 6:30 to 9 pm at York Memorial Collegiate, 2690 Eglinton Avenue West (at Keele). At the Open Houses, TTC and the City will present proposed station and station entrance locations for the central underground section (Brentcliffe to Keele). For the rest of Eglinton Avenue, proposed platform locations and traffic management strategies to provide fast and reliable LRT service will be displayed. Alternative corridors for the extension from Martin Grove Road to Pearson International Airport will also be exhibited.

As we receive additional information on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project, the BIA will update this site. So check back often.

This 31-kilometre long corridor would link Kennedy Station in the east with Pearson Airport and the Mississauga Transitway in the west, via a new light rail service that would stretch across Toronto. The corridor would provide a fast and frequent east-west service through the central part of Toronto, as well as important regional connections. The corridor would connect with the existing Bloor-Danforth, Yonge, Scarborough RT and Spadina subways, and with the proposed new Scarborough Malvern, Don Mills, and Jane light rail corridors. In addition to connections to Mississauga in the west, the Eglinton Crosstown corridor could eventually connect with Durham Region in the east, via the Scarborough Malvern and Sheppard East light rail corridors.

Light rail service would operate on the surface in a dedicated right-of-way from Kennedy Station to approximately Laird Drive, then underground to Keele Street, and then again on the surface in a dedicated right of way to Mississauga and Pearson Airport. Estimated annual ridership in 2021 would be 53 million customer-trips. Order-of-magnitude cost of the corridor would be approximately $2.2 billion. (Taken from www.transitcity.ca website)