{"id":483572,"date":"2026-02-18T18:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483572\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:43:25","slug":"province-will-not-commit-to-opening-date-on-new-subway-line-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483572\/","title":{"rendered":"Province will not commit to opening date on new subway line in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 The province will not commit to an opening date for the new subway line currently under construction in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>But Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay says they plan to open the Ontario Line by the early 2030s, potentially later than the 2031 target.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay says the testing phase of new transit lines can affect opening dates.<\/p>\n<p>He also says the Don Valley Parkway may be shut down in order to build bridges for the new subway. <\/p>\n<p>He and Premier Doug Ford say the province has broken ground on the elevated portion of the new line.<\/p>\n<p>Construction on four new stations is also beginning.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Liam Casey, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The province will not commit to an opening date for the new subway line currently under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-483572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483572","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=483572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}