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The three-stop extension will push the TTC鈥檚 Line 2 subway from Kennedy station further north, with stops at Lawrence and McCowan, Scarborough Centre and Sheppard and McCowan. The extension is expected to open in 2030.

Scarborough transit users have grappled with a stopgap bus system since the Scarborough RT derailment in July 2023, which sent five to the hospital 鈥� four months before the aging transit line was due to be decommissioned. The proposed Scarborough busway, meant to be a temporary replacement for the RT, isn鈥檛 scheduled to open for another two years.

The subway extension was pitched as part of the Ontario Progressive Conservative government鈥檚 $28.5-billion transit expansion plan for the GTA, and initially had a price tag of .

The budget was revealed to have nearly doubled as of June, with a new $10.2-billion price tag taking into account “construction costs along with additional project costs, like property acquisition, technical engineering advisers, installation, testing and commissioning of all systems equipment, and interconnection with existing TTC systems,” a Metrolinx spokesperson explained at the time.

The tunnel machine for the project 鈥� nicknamed “Diggy Stardust” 鈥� met “technical challenges with ground conditions” after launching in 2023, a Metrolinx report from June said, leading to “slower progress than originally planned.鈥�

As of June, Metrolinx said the tunnel-boring machine had completed more than 1.7 kilometres of its southward journey 鈥� just a quarter of what is needed for the extension.