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Eglinton Crosstown LRT
$12.6 BILLION
This light-rail transit line will run along Toronto’s Eglinton Avenue between
Mount Dennis (Weston Road) and Kennedy Station. Part of the Government
of Ontario’s light-rail transit plan for the city, this 19-kilometre corridor will
include an 11-kilometre underground portion between Keele Street and Laird
Drive. When running at street level, the line will carry passengers in dedicated
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RENEW CANADA – TOP100 2025
2024 Rank: 5
Location: Toronto, Ont.
Owner: Metrolinx
Procurement Agent: Infrastructure Ontario
DBFM Team: Crosslinx Transit Solutions—ACS Infrastructure Canada, Aecon,
EllisDon, AtkinsRéalis, and Dragados Canada
Contractor: Design-Build JV: Aecon Infrastructure Management, Dragados
Canada, EllisDon, and AtkinsRéalis Constructors (Pacific)
Engineer: Jacobs and 4 Transit—WSP (project management/engineering);
Hatch, Parsons (consulting engineer, technical advisor, construction oversight);
AECOM; Wood (WSP) (consulting/environmental/geotechnical studies); LEA
(design); Parsons; H.H. Angus & Associates Limited Consulting Engineers
(engineer-design)
Architects: NORR Architects & Engineers (Station Architects); WSP (preliminary
station design); DIALOG; Daoust Lestage
Other Key Players: AECOM (consulting engineer, preliminary planning/
study, design); Aon (risk advisor); Arup (preliminary design work); Arcadis-IBI
Group (design engineer); BTY Group (independent certifier); Caterpillar;
Entro; Entuitive (structural engineering consultant); EY (advising gov’t.); EXP
(instrumentation and monitoring); Golder (WSP) (geotechnical services);
Hanscomb (preliminary and concept designers’ cost consultant for 7 stations);
Infrastructure Ontario; INTECH (risk advisor); McCormick Rankin; Munro
(concrete); Norton Rose Fulbright; Obayashi Canada; Kenny Construction; EXP;
Kenaidan Contracting; Technicore (contractors); URS/Parsons JV (systems
design); CRH Canada (cement supply); Dufferin Construction (prep work);
McMillen Jacobs Associates (independent verifier); Mott MacDonald (track
design review and tunnel construction management); Englobe (geotechnical
studies); CIMA+ (traffic mgmt. and road safety audits); Stantec (transit
operations and maintenance advisory services); GHD (traffic mgmt., site civil
support); AGAT Labs; Accenture (project manager); Deloitte; Geosolv; HKA; GFL
(excavation, shoring, soil management); R.V. Anderson Associates Ltd.; Turner &
Townsend (cost management); E.S. Fox; Cartel Communications, Inc.
Management Consultants: Infrastructure Ontario; Metrolinx; SEG
Management Consultants (fairness advisor); EY (transaction advisor); BMO
Capital Markets (financial advisor); Aon Risk Solutions (insurance advisor);
Accuracy (management consultant)
Supplier: Bombardier (vehicle); DECAST Ltd. (precast tunnel liner segments);
CRH Canada (cement); Canam Group (steel fabricator); Victaulic
Financiers/Banks: National Bank Financial and Scotiabank Global Banking
and Markets (underwriters); Alberta Treasury Branches; Caisse Centrale
Desjardins; Bank of Nova Scotia; Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ; and TorontoDominion Bank (mandate lead arrangers); BMO Capital Markets (financial
advisor)
Legal: Blake, Cassels & Graydon (Metrolinx legal advisor); Fasken Martineau
DuMoulin (advising lenders to consortium); Borden Ladner Gervais (legal
advisor); DLA Piper (Canada); Norton Rose Fulbright; Stikeman Elliott LLP;
Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP; Dentons (legal advisor)
Funding: P3
Substantial Completion: 2025
right-of-way transit lanes separate from regular traffic with priority signaling at
intersections. Travelling at an average speed of 28 km/h, it will link to 54 bus
routes, three subway stations, and various GO Transit lines. The capacity of the
LRT vehicles is 15,000 passengers per hour per direction, with the flexibility to
easily remove or add cars.
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