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How will the Crosstown benefit Toronto?
The Crosstown will bring fast, reliable and convenient transit service to passengers across Toronto. It will carry many more passengers and move up to 60 percent faster than the existing bus service on Eglinton Avenue. See LRT infographic.
In addition to moving people across the city more quickly, reliably and conveniently, the Crosstown will ease traffic and congestion by providing an excellent travel alternative.
The Crosstown project will create tens of thousands of jobs and provide lasting economic benefits for the entire region.
The value of residences on and near the Eglinton corridor has also started to skyrocket, especially in neighbourhoods where the LRT will be going underground. “Though Toronto is experiencing an overall real estate boom, transit construction immediately causes property prices in neighbouring areas to increase,” says Matti Siemiatycki, an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Program in Planning at the University of Toronto.