Voltz
Senior Member
One of their virtual open houses stated that yes there would be cell service in the tunnels
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toronto647
Active Member
I wonder when it will be announced that this project is delayed to 2024? Why are they waiting to make the announcement? Might as well announce it already rather keep folks in suspense.
smallspy
Senior Member
I'm not sure that it will get delayed to 2024.
They're backfilling more portions of the excavations at Yonge & Eglinton right now, and are getting ready to switch a portion of Eglinton west of Yonge off of the temporary roadway surfaces and onto the permanent one. That move should happen later this month.
There are locations along the south platform edges of the current Eglinton subway platform where they have started prepping for the permanent walls that will block off the tracks from the old platform.
The recent Yonge Line weekend closure was to set up the signal system for the new stopping locations of the trains once the platform is shifted northward. There may be one more closure to finish this work up.
Dan
toronto647
Active Member
There is already chatter amongst politicians, MTO and MX that if everything goes to their plan that they will hand this project over to TTC around August. TTC will need 4 months to prep it and get the necessary training etc... I think everyone on this forum agrees TTC will need a 3-4 minimum mobilization period. With that being said, the earliest this line opens is November assuming everything goes to plan. Knowing MX nothing ever goes to plan and they have already started conversations for December or Q1 2024 opening.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Metrolinx has purposefully avoided specifying a new opening date to avoid bad press yet again if things have been delayed. They don't need to announce another delay right now as their official stance is "it'll open when it's done".
Steve X
Senior Member
I somehow read December 2024 in your post and thought that’s accurate
Islington Express Bus
Active Member
Someone remind me, when was the original opening date when construction started? 2019? 2020?
AlxOptimism
New Member
I found this article from early 2012:
Eglinton LRT unlikely to meet 2020 completion date: TTC report
The more realistic in-service date for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT is 2022-2023, the report said.
toronto.citynews.ca
Projected completion (by the TTC not Metrolinx) was 2022-2023. Metrolinx obviously maintained that the completion date would be 2020 till 2016/2017
Natika33
Active Member
Yes, it is uniquely Japanese to have ads hanging from the ceiling, but my point was not to copy what Japan does rather that there's a big gap between the barely there advertising we have and the "whoa that's a bit extra" that they have. I mean more than half the space they have set aside for ads within the TTC are empty right now. It's the equivalent to walking down a street where half the stores are boarded up. It makes it look like Toronto is facing a zombie apocalypse or something, hence my husband's comment.
toronto647
Active Member
The closure you get to 2024 and no opening announcement the average citizens psychological mindset will start aggressively questioning whether this will really open in 2023. The stance right now publicly at least is that it will open this year i.e. 2023. That is the understanding what most citizens have. They have accepted that it is basically April now and this line will open within the next 6 months or so.
Clearly this is not the case as already confirmed internally by various stakeholders and is common knowledge within them.
Imthedamguy
New Member
What/who are your sources? You seem to know what shareholders and metrolinx know.
toronto647
Active Member
City staff, MTO, etc...
If everyone takes a step back we are in April in a few days. The earliest this project gets in the TTC's hands is August. TTC will require 4 months to do their dry runs and mobilization. That takes us to November. That is in a perfect world that everything goes right. City staff, MTO don't really have the confidence everything will go right and the earliest opening would be November/December if not more likely Q1 2024.
Does anyone feel like the math is off above?
Tunafish13
Active Member
Not sure if this has been posted before, but the escalator at Eglinton looks pretty much done, you can juuuust see the blue wall tiles at the bottom of the stairs
smallspy
Senior Member
Ish, but that's also dependent on the timing of the handover.
The TTC has traditionally operated any new rapid transit service for 2 board periods before opening it to paying passengers, with each board period being 6 weeks (and so, about 3 months). (There is a 2 week board period over Christmas, but we're not going to count that - and neither do they.)
If the line was handed over close to the end of a board period, then the TTC could in theory start their work right away and have it open closer to that 3 month number.
But if the line is handed over well into a board period, than yes, it would be closer to 4 months.
Dan
11th
Senior Member
Was your husband comment from before the pandemic? From my memory it wasn't always like that. The situation's only deteriorated during and after the pandemic. It's noticeable when you see ads for events from months before still on display.