Update — 1:47 p.m., Wednesday, August 13: The City and TTC will now hold a fifth open house on Thursday, September 4.
Next week, the City of Toronto and the TTC will host five public information centres as part of the environmental assessment protection for the next Transit City light rail transit line.
The Eglinton Crosstown LRT will travel along or under Eglinton Avenue from Kennedy Station on the 2 Bloor — Danforth subway and 3 Scarborough rapid transit lines, to the Eglinton and Eglinton West Stations on the 1 Yonge-University-Spadina subway and then to Renforth Drive. The line may also serve Toronto Pearson Air Terminal and connect with the proposed Scarborough Malvern, Don Mills Road and Jane LRT lines.
The City and TTC are proposing to replace the current bus service along Eglinton Avenue with electric-powered light rail transit vehicles. Since Eglinton is narrow in the middle of the city, the LRT vehicles would travel through an underground tunnel between Brentcliffe Road (east of Laird Drive) and Keele Street. On all other parts of Eglinton, the LRT vehicles would operate on the surface of the street, but in their own lanes, separate from all other traffic.
You can review the plans for the proposed line and comment on the proposals at the information meetings taking place from 6:30 until 9 p.m.:
Thursday, August 14
Forest Hill Memorial Arena
340 Chaplin Crescent
(You can see a map of the meeting location here.)Tuesday, August 19
Leaside Arena
1073 Millwood Road
(You can see a map of the meeting location here.)Monday, August 25
Humber Valley United Church
76 Anglesey Boulevard
(You can see a map of the meeting location here.)Wednesday, August 27
Don Montgomery Community Recreation Centre
(formerly Mid-Scarborough Community Centre)
2467 Eglinton Avenue East.
(You can see a map of the meeting location here.)
and
Thursday, September 4
Richview Baptist Church
1548 Kipling Avenue,
just north of Eglinton Avenue West.
You can see a map of the proposed route and more details about the project here.
You can find out more about other Transit City projects here and here.
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