What to know<\/p>\n
Mount Dennis GO and UP Express station officially opened on Nov. 16, connecting Line 5 to the Kitchener GO line and UP Express.<\/p>\n
TTC riders can now use three new entrances at Cedarvale Station, formerly Eglinton West, to access Line 1.<\/p>\n
Full Line 5 service remains closed as the line continues Revenue Service Demonstration testing.<\/p>\n
Metrolinx says there is still a chance Line 5 could open in 2025, with testing showing strong system stability.<\/p>\n
Two stations on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line are now officially open to the public, as testing for the long-delayed line continues.<\/p>\n
On Nov. 16, Metrolinx opened Mount Dennis GO and UP Express Station. The station will serve as a transit hub connecting the Eglinton Crosstown Line 5 to the Kitchener GO line and the UP Express Line.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the TTC and Metrolinx opened several entrances to the crosstown\u2019s Cederavale Station on Nov. 16, previously known as Eglinton West Station, for Line 1 passengers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mount Dennis GO and UP Express Station is located between Weston Road and Black Creek Drive. As of Sunday, non-express GO trains on the Kitchener line began accepting passengers at the station.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trips between Mount Dennis GO and Union are expected to take approximately 16 minutes, improving travel times for residents in the northwest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Metrolinx, non-express trains on the Kitchener GO line will run every 30 minutes, with a total of 64 weekday train trips.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Non-express trains will run every 60 minutes on weekends with a total of 32 trains during service.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In addition, Line 1 customers can now access the renamed Cedervale Station using three new Line 5 entrances.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile customers will be able to enter Cedarvale Station from any entrance and connect to Line 1 subway service and buses via Eglinton West Station, access to Line 5 will remain closed until an official opening date has been announced,\u201d the TTC said to Now Toronto in a statement on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The TTC confirms that an opening date for Line 5 has not been set.<\/p>\n
Although some signage at the station may still say Eglinton West, the TTC says changes to signage will take place over the next several weeks.<\/p>\n
Despite the opening of two crosstown stations, the line is still undergoing a Revenue Service Demonstration which commenced on Oct. 7 and paused shortly after two trains collided in the Mount Dennis train yard on Oct 16.<\/p>\n
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Despite there being roughly six weeks left in the year, Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay informed reporters at Mount Dennis Station on Monday that an opening this year is still possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is absolutely still a chance of 2025, and the project being done. It\u2019s a test, we are applying the most rigorous test that has ever been applied to LRT\u2019s anywhere, and we are doing that precisely because of the experience of the Ottawa LRT,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Lindsay said the system is showing \u201cgreat stability\u201d even in the winter months, and says because of this \u201cthere is a lot of promise.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know Mount Dennis GO and UP Express station officially opened on Nov. 16, connecting Line 5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,126812,105053],"class_list":{"0":"post-289461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-eglinton-crosstown-lrt","12":"tag-metrolinx"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}