"The environmental assessment on this project is done. The plan exists. What's missing, above all, is a mayor who's willing to go and fight for it, Bradford said at a news conference at the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus."
"Last week we landed the Waterfront LRT funding now this is our top priority for [the] next round, and we need that funding, she said."
"City council adopted a motion in 2025 that set that deadline to the first quarter of 2026."
"City staff are working to deliver an update on the LRT and that other transit funding commitments do not preclude, delay or diminish work on the Eglinton East LRT."
The Eglinton East LRT, an 18.6-kilometre transit line from Kennedy Station to Malvern Town Centre, has been proposed since 2009. Recent political tensions arose as Coun. Brad Bradford and Mayor Olivia Chow presented competing motions to expedite its development. The project lacks federal and provincial funding commitments, unlike the Waterfront East LRT, which received support last week. Bradford criticized Chow for neglecting the Eglinton East LRT, while Chow emphasized that funding has been allocated in city budgets. A report on the project's design progress is forthcoming from city staff.
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