Days after provincial and city officials faced off over the opening date of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Ontario’s Transportation Minister says the TTC can begin operating the line “when they feel comfortable.”

After nearly 15 years of construction, Metrolinx announced the long-delayed line had reached substation completion on Dec. 5, allowing the province to finally transfer responsibility for the line to the TTC for operation.

Multiple sources told Global News that while the transit agency and the Ministry of Transportation planned to open the line during the last week of December, the Toronto Transit Commission resisted that and targeted early February instead.

The two competing opening dates came to a head at a meeting on Dec. 5 involving Metrolinx, the TTC, Premier Doug Ford, Mayor

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