Toronto Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

[smallspy]

Or, wait for it, a really shocking idea : Use that empty space for information that would actually be useful to the transit riders. Such as the map of the network, with updates for all long-term detours. Or rules for what is or is not allowed on TTC vehicles (bicycles, e-scooters, ...). Or information about schedules on major lines. Or locations of TTC self-service bike repair stands.

10% of the advertising space that the TTC sells is "sold" back to the TTC for their use and at no cost. This is set up in the contract with Pattison.

Dan

 

[cplchanb]

I really don't know why they can't just replace the LED board with a new design. I'm sure TTC can pay for this. Major cities around the world do update their LEDs at least once in their 30 year lifespan right? They can include all the extensions under constructions like Ontario Line, Eglinton West, Yonge North and Scarborough.

They did spend $800,000 renaming Downsview to Sheppard West, they can spend a few million to do this. Who knows how much they are already spending.

I wont be surprised if they do this once they go in for the midlife rebuild. Its not as easy nor cheap as you suggest it to be, especially at govt contract and labour rates.

 

[daptive]

Decent speed it seems

Might just be me, but earlier videos of it running seemed like it was going at a much faster pace. Has anyone measured the speed difference from before to now?

 

[T3G]

Doug Ford reveals when he now expects the Eglinton Crosstown LRT to open

Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria previously said there was a chance the long-delayed line could open before the end of the year.

www.thestar.com

"very soon after 2026" might possibly be the most useless qualifier yet???

 

[Bayer]

Ontario Government press release:

Ontario Achieves Substantial Completion of Eglinton Crosstown LRT - Operational control now transferred to the TTC ahead of the launch of passenger service

 

[cplchanb]

Ontario Government press release:

Ontario Achieves Substantial Completion of Eglinton Crosstown LRT - Operational control now transferred to the TTC ahead of the launch of passenger service

so 2025 is officially dead....

at least they are able to transfer to TTC quicker than line 6.....

 

[narduch]

Substantial Completion is just a contractual thing.

It doesn't mean it's ready to open

 

[Steve X]

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so 2025 is officially dead....

at least they are able to transfer to TTC quicker than line 6.....

There’s so much problem with the connecting bus network they’ll need the next schedule change to accommodate. Otherwise if they just ran the current network, it’ll give a bad impression when transfers are so unfriendly.

 

[zang]

I wont be surprised if they do this once they go in for the midlife rebuild. Its not as easy nor cheap as you suggest it to be, especially at govt contract and labour rates.

With the prevalence of single board computers (Raspberry Pis, etc.), ultrawide displays and other technology since their design in the mid 00s, it's quite a bit cheaper on the backend side. Of course, not including dev.

From a theoretical standpoint—and assuming open standards and off-the-shelf aren't eschewed in favour of more expensive proprietary "solutions":

If the ATC were able to output messaging/location updates through something like MQTT (XMPP, DDS, etc.) a pretty simple system could be set up using a unix variant on a raspberry pi or NUC, HDMI distribution over ethernet hardware and ultrawide, UHD flat screen monitors behind protective plexi and lots of ethernet cable. Displays could be placed over every set of doors (instead of every nth as they are now). Accessibility outages, skipping stations in the event of security problems, delays, etc. could all be displayed actively in realtime on each station, but as the TTC is prone to avoiding notifying riders of anything, it doesn't need to be any more complicated than static slides triggered by track locations (though I'd personally only have that as a backup in the event of active system failure).

I could be totally off here, but build in some redundancy and I could see getting bare hardware costs to ~$60,000 per train (x82 = ~$5m). I personally think removal, development, installation could be done for $10m-$15m for the entire fleet and a couple million for future maintenance and warranty servicing. It's not a lot relative to the TTCs $2.8B annual budget, especially if money is already being put aside for midlife retrofits. I'm sure the TTC will get quoted a nice round $150m to put any kind of retrofit of modern displays on the fleet however.

 

[DSCToronto]

Steve Munro

 

[max]

Link to the full article: https://stevemunro.ca/2025/12/05/metrolinx-hands-line-5-crosstown-to-ttc/

Interesting that the operating hours will be 5:30am to 2:30am and will not replicate the “soft opening” conditions of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m being used for Finch.

EDIT: Apparently I can't read

 

[youngblood]

A oh

Steve Munro

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mid Feb??

 

[DSCToronto]

Link to the full article: https://stevemunro.ca/2025/12/05/metrolinx-hands-line-5-crosstown-to-ttc/

Interesting that the operating hours will be 5:30am to 2:30am and will not replicate the “soft opening” conditions of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m being used for Finch.

That is exactly the opposite of what Steve reported..

 

[Steve X]

Link to the full article: https://stevemunro.ca/2025/12/05/metrolinx-hands-line-5-crosstown-to-ttc/

Interesting that the operating hours will be 5:30am to 2:30am and will not replicate the “soft opening” conditions of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m being used for Finch.

It means 6 months later that will be the service.

 

[Chaplinurbex]

Steve Munro

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Mid Feb makes no sense. It took Finch 6 weeks between RSD end to opening. By all accounts, the timing should be faster for Eglinton. Which would mean early Jan. I don't see how the TTC needs another 2+ months to get this thing going.

A couple small things I've noticed on my daily walk by of Chaplin Station. Inside each station there is a sign that says "Public Notice". The font is too small to read from outside, but it is clearly meant for passengers to read. They've also cleaned up some ceiling tiles that have been sitting in a corner of one of the station entrances for like over a year. So if they are putting up signs for the public and getting the stations cleaned up, 2.5 months until opening just seems absurd.