The Ontario government, Metrolinx and the Mayor of Toronto have reached a deal to build new transit services in Toronto.

Metrolinx is responsible for a delivering light rail transit along Eglinton Avenue and the Scarborough LRT line, while the City of Toronto is responsible for delivering subway extensions along Sheppard Avenue from Downsview subway station to Scarborough Centre.

Metrolinx Transit Project:

Metrolinx is responsible for delivering the Eglinton Scarborough Crosstown LRT project. This includes securing environmental approvals, designing, coordinating, planning, constructing and implementing the extension.

This project will be a single LRT line running about 25.2 kilometers.It will also include up to 26 new stations, vehicles, maintenance and storage facilities, and rail and signal systems. The cost estimate for the project is $8.18 billion.

City of Toronto Transit Project:

Toronto is responsible for delivering the subway extensions along Sheppard Avenue (east and west). This includes securing environmental approvals, designing, coordinating, planning, constructing and implementing the extensions.

Sheppard East

An approximately eight-kilometer extension of the existing Sheppard Subway will run easterly from Don Mills Station where the line currently ends to a new terminal at Scarborough Centre.

The project will also include seven new subway stations, subway cars, maintenance and storage facilities, rail and signal systems. The cost estimate (excluding a new yard) is $2.75 billion.

Sheppard West

An approximately 5.5-kilometer extension of the existing Sheppard Subway will run west from the Yonge-Sheppard Station where the line currently ends to a new terminal at Downsview on the University-Spadina Subway line.

The project will also include two new subway stations, subway cars, maintenance and storage facilities, rail and signal systems. The cost estimate is $1.4 billion.
Metrolinx may contribute up to $650 million to the costs of the Sheppard project. The first priority for the provincial funding is the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown LRT line.
Any residual funding, up to $650 million, will be given to the city as a contribution to the Sheppard projects.