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Eglinton East LRT
The Eglinton East LRT (EELRT), also known as the Scarborough East Rapid Transit Line (SERT), formerly known as the Scarborough Malvern LRT, is a proposed light rail line intended to be part of the Toronto subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The line would be entirely within the district of Scarborough. It was originally part of Transit City, a 2007 plan to develop new light rail lines along several priority transit corridors in the city.
Unlike Line 5 Eglinton, which is a Metrolinx project, the EELRT is a City of Toronto project. In 2022, the plan was that the EELRT be designed and operated as a distinct service from Line 5 Eglinton; both would terminate at Kennedy station with no connecting track. In November 2023, the estimated cost of the EELRT was CA$4.65 billion, with construction expected to occur between 2027 and 2034 if the project were to be approved and funded.
The Scarborough Malvern LRT was part of Toronto mayor David Miller's Transit City proposal announced on March 16, 2007, to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. This shorter 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) line was envisioned to terminate at Sheppard Avenue East and Morningside Avenue, where it would interchange with the proposed Sheppard East LRT. In 2008, the Scarborough Malvern LRT was included in Metrolinx's regional transportation plan The Big Move within that plan's 25-year horizon. In 2009, the initial design for the Scarborough Malvern LRT was completed. The design cut off west of Midland Avenue, leaving the question open for later design phases of how the line would interface with Kennedy station and whether the line would be an extension of Line 5 or a distinct service. The line was expected to cost approximately CA$1.26 billion, including vehicles, property, escalation and an apportioned cost of the maintenance and storage facilities. With construction originally scheduled to begin in 2014, the line was expected to open in 2019 as the last of the seven Transit City lines.
The Scarborough Malvern LRT was approved by Toronto City Council on September 30, 2009, and the environmental assessment received a notice to proceed from the Government of Ontario on December 15, 2009. After a change in municipal leadership, it was cancelled by Mayor Rob Ford on December 1, 2010, when he announced the cancellation of the entire Transit City initiative. While LRT lines Sheppard East, Finch West, and Eglinton were revived through a new agreement between the City of Toronto and Metrolinx, the Scarborough Malvern LRT was not included.
In 2016, the city council directed staff to resurrect and update the 2009 plan for the Scarborough Malvern LRT. The project was renamed the Eglinton East LRT. Until 2021, the city considered making the EELRT an eastward extension of Line 5 Eglinton.
In 2016, to complement the Scarborough Subway Extension (SSE), the planned extension of Line 2 Bloor–Danforth to Scarborough Town Centre, the City of Toronto drafted a plan to extend Line 5 Eglinton farther east into Scarborough to terminate at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus. On January 20, 2016, Toronto City Council approved revisions to the Scarborough subway plan that would include reviving much of the original plan for the Scarborough Malvern LRT as a 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) eastern extension of Line 5 Eglinton to University of Toronto Scarborough, rebranded as "Crosstown East", and later renamed "Eglinton East" in 2017. The extension would add 18 new stops east of Kennedy station and serve an estimated 43,400 additional riders per day (a ridership similar to that of the Line 4 Sheppard subway). The extension was expected to serve "neighbourhood improvement areas" (often low-income areas) such as Eglinton East, Scarborough Junction, Morningside, Scarborough Village and West Hill.
In November 2017, the project was mostly unfunded, with the cost estimated at $1.6 to $1.7 billion, with an estimated completion date of 2023. At a November 2017 public meeting, city staff presented the possibility of extending the Eglinton East LRT by six stops to Malvern Town Centre. The Malvern extension would be 4.2 to 4.7 kilometres (2.6 to 2.9 mi) long. The extension to Malvern Town Centre would have seven stops: at Pan Am Drive, Sheppard/Morningside, Brenyon Way, Murison Boulevard, Sheppard/Neilson, Wickson Trail, and Malvern Town Centre. The Malvern Town Centre spur was originally part of the Scarborough RT replacement.
In April 2019, Ontario premier Doug Ford, brother of Rob Ford, announced a plan for Toronto rapid transit that included the Eglinton West LRT (a westward extension of Line 5 Eglinton), the Scarborough subway extension of Line 2, the Yonge North extension of Line 1 Yonge–University and the Ontario Line. The Eglinton East LRT was noticeably not included and was left off the accompanying map.
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Eglinton East LRT
The Eglinton East LRT (EELRT), also known as the Scarborough East Rapid Transit Line (SERT), formerly known as the Scarborough Malvern LRT, is a proposed light rail line intended to be part of the Toronto subway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The line would be entirely within the district of Scarborough. It was originally part of Transit City, a 2007 plan to develop new light rail lines along several priority transit corridors in the city.
Unlike Line 5 Eglinton, which is a Metrolinx project, the EELRT is a City of Toronto project. In 2022, the plan was that the EELRT be designed and operated as a distinct service from Line 5 Eglinton; both would terminate at Kennedy station with no connecting track. In November 2023, the estimated cost of the EELRT was CA$4.65 billion, with construction expected to occur between 2027 and 2034 if the project were to be approved and funded.
The Scarborough Malvern LRT was part of Toronto mayor David Miller's Transit City proposal announced on March 16, 2007, to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. This shorter 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) line was envisioned to terminate at Sheppard Avenue East and Morningside Avenue, where it would interchange with the proposed Sheppard East LRT. In 2008, the Scarborough Malvern LRT was included in Metrolinx's regional transportation plan The Big Move within that plan's 25-year horizon. In 2009, the initial design for the Scarborough Malvern LRT was completed. The design cut off west of Midland Avenue, leaving the question open for later design phases of how the line would interface with Kennedy station and whether the line would be an extension of Line 5 or a distinct service. The line was expected to cost approximately CA$1.26 billion, including vehicles, property, escalation and an apportioned cost of the maintenance and storage facilities. With construction originally scheduled to begin in 2014, the line was expected to open in 2019 as the last of the seven Transit City lines.
The Scarborough Malvern LRT was approved by Toronto City Council on September 30, 2009, and the environmental assessment received a notice to proceed from the Government of Ontario on December 15, 2009. After a change in municipal leadership, it was cancelled by Mayor Rob Ford on December 1, 2010, when he announced the cancellation of the entire Transit City initiative. While LRT lines Sheppard East, Finch West, and Eglinton were revived through a new agreement between the City of Toronto and Metrolinx, the Scarborough Malvern LRT was not included.
In 2016, the city council directed staff to resurrect and update the 2009 plan for the Scarborough Malvern LRT. The project was renamed the Eglinton East LRT. Until 2021, the city considered making the EELRT an eastward extension of Line 5 Eglinton.
In 2016, to complement the Scarborough Subway Extension (SSE), the planned extension of Line 2 Bloor–Danforth to Scarborough Town Centre, the City of Toronto drafted a plan to extend Line 5 Eglinton farther east into Scarborough to terminate at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus. On January 20, 2016, Toronto City Council approved revisions to the Scarborough subway plan that would include reviving much of the original plan for the Scarborough Malvern LRT as a 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) eastern extension of Line 5 Eglinton to University of Toronto Scarborough, rebranded as "Crosstown East", and later renamed "Eglinton East" in 2017. The extension would add 18 new stops east of Kennedy station and serve an estimated 43,400 additional riders per day (a ridership similar to that of the Line 4 Sheppard subway). The extension was expected to serve "neighbourhood improvement areas" (often low-income areas) such as Eglinton East, Scarborough Junction, Morningside, Scarborough Village and West Hill.
In November 2017, the project was mostly unfunded, with the cost estimated at $1.6 to $1.7 billion, with an estimated completion date of 2023. At a November 2017 public meeting, city staff presented the possibility of extending the Eglinton East LRT by six stops to Malvern Town Centre. The Malvern extension would be 4.2 to 4.7 kilometres (2.6 to 2.9 mi) long. The extension to Malvern Town Centre would have seven stops: at Pan Am Drive, Sheppard/Morningside, Brenyon Way, Murison Boulevard, Sheppard/Neilson, Wickson Trail, and Malvern Town Centre. The Malvern Town Centre spur was originally part of the Scarborough RT replacement.
In April 2019, Ontario premier Doug Ford, brother of Rob Ford, announced a plan for Toronto rapid transit that included the Eglinton West LRT (a westward extension of Line 5 Eglinton), the Scarborough subway extension of Line 2, the Yonge North extension of Line 1 Yonge–University and the Ontario Line. The Eglinton East LRT was noticeably not included and was left off the accompanying map.