Work on the streetcar tracks along Leslie Street that had to be ripped out and reinstalled after a contractor error won’t be completed for another month.
In May, the TTC revealed that the concrete foundation for a stretch of the new track was laid about nine centimetres too high and would need to be ripped up and reinstalled before a full closure of Leslie Street between Queen Street and Eastern Avenue could be lifted.
At the time, the TTC said that work would be completed by mid-July and the road would be reopened then but on Tuesday, TTC spokesperson Brad Ross confirmed to CTV News that one lane will be opened in each direction in mid-August, a full month behind schedule.
The streetcar tracks themselves won't be open until overhead wire is installed along the road.
The delay is just the latest setback in the construction of the new streetcar storage yard, which was initially expected to be open by 2014 but now won’t be open until this September.
Speaking about the delays back in May, Mayor Tory said he hold the TTC partly responsible.
“It isn’t even so much about money; it is about people’s time and it is about the disruption in that neighbourhood where it has gone on for a long time and I am not happy about it,” he said.
According to a report in the Toronto Star, the cost of the Leslie Yards has ballooned from an estimated $14 million to $105 million.
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