Everything you need to know about Toronto’s Ontario Line subway project

Tunnelling has started on the new TTC subway route, which ‘will put nearly 230,000 people’ closer to transit, according to Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
Early construction along Queen St. East in Toronto for the Ontario Line subway project in May 2023. The project was first expected to be completed by 2027, but is now forecast to take years longer to finish. Photo by Jack Boland/Postmedia/File

Toronto has started tunnelling on its new subway route. The Ontario Line will open up 15 stops between Exhibition Place, west of downtown, and Don Valley Station, which was formerly named Science Centre Station. The project is over 15 kilometres long, with more than half of the line running underground.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in a Facebook post last week that the Ontario Line will create 40 new connections to existing transit routes, “will put nearly 230,000 people” closer to transit, and will “support 4,700,” new Ontario jobs per year.

“The start of tunnelling is a historic milestone for the Ontario Line which, once complete, will help cut travel times for commuters across Toronto by 40 minutes,” Ford said in a press release.

Here’s everything you need to know about the Ontario Line.

 

When will it be completed?

“We think we’re still trending towards the early 2030s to be done with civil infrastructure,” Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay said at a press conference in February. After that, the subway line would still need to be tested.

How much will it cost?

Metrolinx declined to give an update on the cost of the Ontario Line. However, a senior government source told Global News in 2024 that the cost of the Ontario Line project alone had increased to $27.2 billion.

 

How will construction affect traffic?

Beginning Sunday, lanes and sidewalks along the west side of Don Mills Road between Eglinton Avenue East and St. Dennis Drive will close for about five weeks, allowing construction teams to build a new temporary platform. The intersection at Don Mills Road and Gateway Boulevard will be particularly affected through May, as construction starts on a new station

How did construction go on previous transit projects?

The Line 5 budget was originally set at $11 billion in 2007 but it grew by $2 billion over 15 years. In all, the Ontario government spent $13 billion.
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