Eglinton Crosstown LRT (TTC)

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The Eglinton Crosstown LRT is a proposed light rail line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as part of the Transit City proposal announced March 16, 2007, to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. It is the longest and most expensive proposed Transit City LRT line, expected to cost approximately $2.2 billion. With construction to begin in 2010, the line is expected to open in 2015, the fourth of the seven Transit City lines to be complete after the Sheppard East, Etobicoke-Finch West, and Waterfront West LRT lines.

An online survey on the official Transit City website asking passengers which line they would use the new LRT service shows that the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line has received about three times the number of votes of all the other LRT lines in the Transit City proposal combined. However, these results may be inaccurate and biased, as passengers can vote once a day, and the proposed LRT lines are of different lengths and cover different areas of the city. This LRT line will also be the only LRT line to cross all former municipalities in the former Metropolitan Toronto, being on Eglinton.

1 Route layout
2 Major streets and landmarks crossing the Eglinton Crosstown LRT (from west to east)
- 2.1 On Eglinton Avenue
3 Proposed Transit City LRT lines
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Route layout

The Eglinton Crosstown LRT line would run for 30.8 km, estimated to account for 53 million trips in 2021. The western termini of the line would be built at Toronto Pearson International Airport and the Mississauga Transitway in Mississauga. The line would run along Eglinton Avenue, where the formerly proposed Eglinton West subway would have been built. The line would cut across the city, touching every subway and RT line with the exception of the Sheppard Line. A portion of the line would be built underground through the former city of York and Midtown Toronto from Keele Street to Laird Drive. The line would terminate at Kennedy Station to the east in Scarborough and meet the Scarborough Malvern LRT line.