Work on the subway line began in 1994 and was halted following the election in 1995, which saw Mike Harris taking power and led to the cancellation of the Eglinton West line, with the existing tunnel quickly filled in. In 1986, a coalition of City of York and Etobicoke Metro councillors and the Region of Peel persuaded Metro Council to include an Eglinton West line in a new Transit Network Plan. The origins of Line 5 Eglinton can be traced to the 1985 Network 2011 plan conceived by the Metro Toronto government as the TTC and Metro began to install the busway along Eglinton. See also: Eglinton West line and Transit City Background In September 2020, assessment and pre-construction of the westward extension to Renforth station was being undertaken by Metrolinx. įuture extensions towards Toronto Pearson International Airport in the west and the University of Toronto Scarborough in the east were approved by Toronto City Council in 2016. In December 2022, CBC News reported on confidential internal documents, which indicated that Crosslinx had no 'credible plan' to complete the line. As of September 2022, the budgeted cost of the project was $12.82 billion. By late September 2022, Metrolinx had conceded the line would not be completed by the end of 2022 but would be ready for service in 2023.

However, by December 2021, Metrolinx expected the line to be substantially complete by September 2022, but that it would not open to the public until several months later, possibly in 2023.

Construction of the first phase of the line began in 2011 and was originally expected to be completed in 2020 it has been delayed more than once, and as of November 2021, Metrolinx and Crosslinx (the construction consortium) agreed on an opening date in late 2022. The line was conceived in 2007 during the administration of Toronto mayor David Miller as part of Transit City, a large-scale transit expansion plan. The first phase of the 19-kilometre (12 mi) line will include 25 stops along Eglinton Avenue, from Mount Dennis station underground to Laird station, after which it will run predominantly at-grade within the street's median to Kennedy station, where it will connect underground with Line 2 Bloor–Danforth and Line 3 Scarborough. Owned by Metrolinx and operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), the line will be part of the Toronto subway system as its fifth route. Line 5 Eglinton (also known as the Eglinton Crosstown or the Crosstown) is a light rail line that is under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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