A train goes across the rails at Eglinton Ave. E. at Pharmacy Ave. on Oct. 1, 2025. Photo by Jack Boland/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network

If you want to see how big projects go awry, visit midtown Toronto, where the Eglinton Crosstown streetcar line is at long last inching toward completion, five years past its scheduled completion and $8 billion over budget.

The project has become a synonym for spectacular incompetence, but perhaps that is not entirely fair. The Crosstown debacle has actually been remarkably well managed from the standpoint of cutting off information. Despite repeated demands for a public inquiry, those of us on the outside are still largely in the dark about what went wrong with the project and who is to blame for the long delays and massive cost overruns.

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