NOMULTI-STATIONLIGHTRAILTRANSIT(LRT)PROJECTONONEOFTHEBUSIESTTHOROUGHFARES in Canada’s largest city can be managed without outstanding communication between all the stakeholders. And that, in a nutshell, is what has been happening with construction on Toronto’s lengthy 19-km Eglinton Crosstown LRT. According to Infrastructure Ontario, the agency tasked with modernizing public assets in the province, the Eglinton Crosstown LRT is part of “The Big Move,” a regional trans- portation plan created by Metrolinx. It’s one of a number of large-scale transit projects in the Greater Toronto Area aiming at improving the city’s dated public transit network. In this case, the goal is to have fast, reliable and comfortable transit along the Eglinton Avenue corridor. Once completed, the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will cross Eglinton Avenue between Mount Dennis (Weston Road) and Kennedy Station and will include a 10-km underground portion between Keele Street and Laird Drive. The line will have 25 stops and stations linking to various TTC bus routes and three subway stations, as well as several GO Transit lines. The impressive new line is being built by Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS), a design and construction consortium comprised of four global leaders in the sector: ACS-Dragados, Aecon, EllisDon and SNC-Lavalin. Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario awarded the contract to CTS in the summer of 2015 and, following project completion, CTS will maintain the line for 30 years. MULTIPLESTAKEHOLDERS In a project of this size and complexity, challenges abound, and CTC corporate communications manager Patricia Pytel says mostaretiedtotheheavily-congestedurbanenvironmentwhere PROJECT MANAGEMENT BY TREENA HEIN Projectmanagementinaction: EglintonLRT The country’s largest infrastructure project relies on strong communication between all parties to keep everyone happy 26 | Builders' Digest Quarter 3 2018