19 h. ago Toronto mayor says Eglinton Crosstown LRT won’t open within next month

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Chow said there would be an update on the status of the rapid transit line next month, confirming it would not be open to the public before.

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36 h. ago Vast Toronto parking lot to be transformed with 6 towers as tall as 60 storeys

Ontario's housing market may be in the midst of a crash, but that hasn't stopped the provincial government from pressing forward with its plans to inject density into sites surrounding transit stations.A new Transit-Oriented Community (TOC)  — provincially-led projects that aim to promote transit use by leveraging underutilized land — has been tabled for a vast tract of surface parking lot at 4105 Kingston Rd., next to Guildwood GO station in Scarborough.The proposal would replace the commuter lot serving the regional rail station with a complex of six towers up to 60 storeys tall, introducing 2,534 new residential units to the currently underbuilt site.In line with the TOC model of integrating density with transit, the proposed complex would place its tallest towers closest to the GO station, with the tallest measuring in just shy of 193 metres. The heights are still quite significant in the local context, with the surrounding neighbourhood exclusively...

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4 d. ago BLIZZARD: Toronto’s two useless TTC transit lines should have been subways

The Eglinton Crosstown and the Finch LRT have been a costly mistake fraught with delays and malfunctions

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6 d. ago Here's how Toronto's new elevated subway stretch is being built

The new Ontario Line subway will include a rare (for Toronto) stretch of elevated track for its northeastern leg through the Thorncliffe Park area, and work is already in full swing to construct the above-grade portion of the new 15.6-kilometre transit line.The line's Don Valley Station (renamed from Science Centre after the provincial government unceremoniously shuttered the landmark science museum in June 2024), along with Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park stations, will be built above street-level and served by an elevated guideway.Construction activity is now setting the stage for these new stations, as well as the elevated corridor that will carry trains across the terminal stretch of the route.The elevated corridor is being constructed along the east side of Don Mills Rd.Preparations for ongoing construction include the October opening of a temporary bus terminal at Don Valley Station, and the November completion of watermain relocation work along Don Mills Rd.Among the...

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7 d. ago TTC can open Eglinton LRT ‘when they feel comfortable’: Transportation Minister

On Monday, Sarkaria appeared to accept the TTC's position, suggesting the province is willing to give the transit system the time it needs to open the line to the public.

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8 d. ago ‘Hearing the feedback’: Chow planning motion to speed up Finch West LRT trains

The new transit line, Toronto's first since 2002, opened on Sunday, taking passengers from Finch West Station on Line 1 to Humber College Station in northern Etobicoke. 

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8 d. ago Toronto mayor planning motion to speed up Finch West LRT trains

The new transit line, Toronto's first since 2002, opened on Sunday, taking passengers from Finch West Station on Line 1 to Humber College Station in northern Etobicoke. 

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8 d. ago Group of friends walked entire length of Finch West LRT on opening day

Toronto celebrated a monumental transit expansion on Dec. 7 with the opening of the Finch West LRT, and a group of friends known for their long-haul walks marked the occasion in their trademark style.The Walkers, a group of five friends who have taken the internet by storm with their walking escapades throughout the Greater Toronto Area, knew the opening of the TTC's Line 6 Finch West was a landmark event they couldn't miss."We met up at 6 a.m. so that we could get to Finch West for the opening ceremony starting at 7 a.m.," Katie Wang tells blogTO. Naturally, there was a motive for arriving bright and early: the commemorative coin the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) gave out to the first 100 people in line. And, apparently, The Walkers weren't the only ones with their eyes on the prize."I saw online that the first 100 customers at Finch West could get a special commemorative coin, and we thought there were only going to be 20 or so people there....

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9 d. ago TTC's fancy new LRT line didn't even make it 30 minutes before first delays

The TTC welcomed its first new transit line in 23 years with the Dec. 7 opening of the new Finch West LRT, but it didn't take long at all for the first delays on the newly christened Line 6 Finch West.Riders braved snowy weather and long lines on Sunday morning to be among the first to ride the 18-stop, 10.3-kilometre light rail line.However, in what has become an all-too-familiar TTC tradition, passengers were notified within minutes of the line's opening that there was a delay affecting Line 6.Line 6 already fitting in well with its peers. https://t.co/q8W6X7poiE— Charlie ND 🇨🇦 (@charliefrom6) December 7, 2025The TTC informed passengers at 7:40 a.m. on Sunday — just ten minutes after the first public train got underway — that it was experiencing "Delays westbound at Finch West station while we deal with an operational problem."The public reaction was swift and brutal, with several users calling out the transit agency for the same old struggles.&...

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1 week ago Key stretch of TTC subway will shut down for this entire weekend

The TTC will shut down service on a busy stretch of subway for this entire weekend, marking the sixth consecutive weekend of planned transit disruption in the city.The transit agency plans to shutter service on a portion of Line 2 for the full weekend of Saturday, Dec. 13 and Sunday, Dec. 14, to accommodate — you guessed it — more track work to keep the aging system running smoothly (at least on the days it operates in its entirety).Passengers relying on the over two-kilometre stretch of the Line 2 Bloor-Danforth between Ossington and St George stations will be relegated to frigid street corners to wait on cramped shuttle buses — which is at least an improvement over other recent closures that have not offered replacement bus service.While stations affected by the planned outage will remain open for passengers to purchase/reload fares and connect with surface routes, the transit agency is advising riders that entrances to Christie, Bloor, and Spadina stations will ...

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1 week ago TTC’s Finch West Line opens to public two years late, $1.2B overbudget

10-km LRT system Toronto's first new transit line since 2002, services 18 stops between Humber College, Finch West Station

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1 week ago Here's what it's like to ride the TTC's new Line 6 Finch West LRT

Toronto got its first new transit line in over two decades with the Dec. 7, 2025, opening of the Finch West LRT, now officially in service as the TTC's Line 6 Finch West.The 18-stop, 10.3-kilometre light rail line kicked off with an opening-day celebration on Sunday, and thousands of passengers showed up to get a free first ride on the LRT after years of construction delays and traffic headaches.blogTO was on the scene to be among the first riders on the route, which serves Finch Avenue West from Keele Street to Highway 27, before turning south to the Humber College north campus.Check out what it's like to ride the new Line 6 Finch West in this photo gallery.

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2 w. ago Group of 8 derelict abandoned buildings to be demolished in Ontario city

A cluster of derelict buildings along Hamilton's future LRT corridor is finally being demolished, with Metrolinx confirming that the work is set to begin in mid-December. Eight Metrolinx-acquired properties, which have become quite the eyesore for locals, will all be demolished over the next two weeks to make way for the Hamilton Light Transit (LRT) line. Addresses include abandoned or aging buildings at 1215 King St. E., 1253 King St. E., 1646 Main St. E., 1652 Main St. E., 3 Barnesdale Ave. S., 7 Glendale Ave. N., 1145 Main St. E., and 1147 Main St. E. The buildings are being demolished to make way for the future Hamilton LRT. Photo: Google Street View.The transit agency notes that residents and businesses near the construction sites can expect occasional noise, vibration, and debris removal as excavators move in. According to the notice, demolition at each location should take up to two weeks, followed by another two weeks of site restoration and recycling...

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2 w. ago Huge void carved below Toronto intersection will soon be a subway station

The $27 billion Ontario Line is shaping up to be a generational transit improvement, and while it's still a long road ahead to an anticipated 2031 completion date, some of the line's future underground stations are already beginning to resemble their final forms.Primed as the solution to Toronto's subway congestion woes, the 15-station, 15.6-kilometre line will link Exhibition Place in the southwest to Don Mills and Eglinton in the northeast, including a central tunnelled section through the heart of downtown.Crews are working away at the central tunnelled stretch, which includes underground stations at King/Bathurst, Queen/Spadina, Osgoode, Queen, Moss Park, and Corktown.Osgoode Station — connecting passengers with the existing Line 1 station of the same name — is among the stations being formed through underground mining operations, carving away space to accommodate future station platforms.The station works include a pair of excavation shafts at the northe...

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