Historica Canada should consider producing a Canadian Heritage Minute celebrating Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT, which began construction in 2011 and has yet to open.
Past Heritage Minutes have included the Battle of Queenston Heights, the Underground Railroad and Sir Sandford Fleming, who engineered four Canadian railways and, in 1879, invented the system of worldwide standard time zones.
Each minute includes an inspirational message from the hero. During Fleming’s Minute he stands abreast a railway car and says, “We’re not just building a railroad, gentlemen! We are building a country!”
The Eglinton Crosstown LRT Heritage Minute would depict Metrolinx executives holding a press conference in front of the LRT on a warm September afternoon in 2025.
“We aspire to start revenue-service demonstration on Eglinton this week,” Metrolinx chief executive officer Michael Lindsay would declare as he stands astride what appears to be a light rail transit system. “We’ve got to define what the ramp-up of the service plan looks like, right, with TTC and government. That has to happen. But we can now start to think about precisely that. I would stress as I always do that [the] revenue-service demonstration is a test. It has to be passed, right?”
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