I’ve been joking for a while that the Ontario Line subway expansion would open before the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

The Crosstown broke ground in 2011 and still hasn’t opened – the Ontario Line was announced in mid-2019 and is years away from completion.

Still, with the Crosstown now more than five years behind schedule, the joke doesn’t seem so crazy.

After years of announcing missed deadlines, then going silent for a time on when they might open, it looked like we might see the LRT line open this September. While that’s still a possibility, it’s also up in the air.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and officials from Metrolinx were asked about the delay this week and couldn’t give a clear answer.

“We’re going to do it safely. We’re not going to do it like the City of Ottawa did, and the thing

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