Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT line, which began construction in 2011 with a projected completion in 2020, remains unfinished and significantly over budget. A report by Marco Chitti from the University of Toronto highlights that Canada faces higher transit construction costs due to regulatory issues, overbuilding practices, and risk management failures, with costs sometimes inflated by up to 50% from the outset. To address these challenges, experts suggest increasing transparency and adopting best practices from countries that deliver comparable projects at far lower costs.
