New Democrats put pressure for public inquiry into Eglinton LRT fiasco

TORONTO – Jill Andrew, NDP MPP for Toronto – St. Paul’s, is adding pressure to calls for a public inquiry into the Eglinton-Crosstown LRT delay after City Hall passed a motion for a provincial inquiry. The Ontario NDP first called for a public inquiry into the project in 2022 and is renewing the calls as the project is delayed yet another year.

“Our province deserves good, reliable transit that gets people home faster,” said Andrew. “But for the past thirteen years, this mess of a project has put our neighbourhoods in Toronto – St. Paul’s at a standstill. Shuttered small businesses, never-ending interruptions and road-closures, and a community that is still waiting for reliable transit to be delivered to them. The people of Toronto – St. Paul’s deserve better; the people of Ontario deserve better.

We have waited long enough. Minister after minister, government after government, have refused to take responsibility for this project. Ford and his politicians refuse to hold Metrolinx accountable for this project despite delays, ballooning costs, and lawsuits. Instead, they have rewarded their CEO handsomely with a million-dollar salary for clearly failing to get this project on track. Someone needs to answer for this mess. It’s time we get the answers that Ontarians have been asking for a decade.”