If you want to know how far we’ve come, just follow our tracks.

For local community members – and fans of the Crosstown LRT project – who have been checking off milestones in the massive project, a new set of tracks being placed along the surface work of Eglinton Square signalled a significant advancement.

Tracks are a symbolic – and grounded – connection to the light rail vehicles that will populate the 19 kilometre line, which is expected to start rolling in 2021.

Our next set of platforms on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project progress tour are O’Connor and Pharmacy, two of the five surface level stops in Scarborough’s Golden Mile area.

O’Connor stop will be a parallel side platform accessible stop located between Victoria Park Avenue and the Eglinton Square intersection. It will be the nearest stop to the Eglinton Square Shopping centre and like our other surface stops, will have a covered waiting area with benches and automated Presto payment machines to pay your fare before you board.

Construction of O’Connor began in 2017 with utility relocations and the removal of medians down the centre of the roadway. Guideway work, the lane that the future light rail vehicle will run on, began in late 2018 with the first concrete pour in early 2019 and track being laid shortly after. The stop will be fully completed next year.

Check out this time-lapse video to see how it all went down.

Located a few kilometers east is the Pharmacy stop. At Eglinton Avenue East and Pharmacy Avenue, the accessible stop will be a parallel side platform. Guideway work has already started at Pharmacy and concrete pours are currently taking place. This work will take up to approximately six weeks where we’ll see some excavation work, electrical installations to run the vehicles and of course, track. Completion for this stop is scheduled for next year.

Located a few kilometers east is the Pharmacy stop. At Eglinton Avenue East and Pharmacy Avenue, the accessible stop will be a parallel side platform. Guideway work has already started at Pharmacy and concrete pours are currently taking place. This work will take up to approximately six weeks where we’ll see some excavation work, electrical installations to run the vehicles and of course, track. Completion for this stop is scheduled for next year.

So, for those keeping track of the track, have your pens ready as you’ll be sure to see much more in the upcoming months.