Hurontario Through Mineola Will Look Finished Before It Is

This fall and winter, Hurontario Street through Mineola starts to look like a light rail line. Crews are welding track and pouring concrete at Harborn Road, and Metrolinx's next phase on the street is stop platforms, overhead wires and permanent traffic signals. Once those are up, the street will look nearly finished. By Metrolinx's own sequence, that is when the testing starts, and no one has said how long testing will take.

For anyone who uses the stretch between the QEW and Port Credit every day, that gap matters. The next year on Hurontario will look like the work is wrapping up while the most open-ended part of the project is still ahead.

Harborn Road Is Where the Track Bed Gets Finished

The work at the north edge of the neighborhood right now is basic construction. Metrolinx says crews are welding tracks and pouring concrete for the guideway inside the intersection of Hurontario Street and Harborn Road/North Service Road, from October 13, 2026 at 10 p.m. to November 17, 2026 at 10 p.m.

For the next three weeks, Metrolinx's closure notice sets these rules at the intersection:

• No east-west traffic across Hurontario at Harborn Road/North Service Road, in either direction
• No left turns
• Right-in and right-out access stays open, with posted detours
• No emergency access through the intersection during the closure
• Work is scheduled around the clock, so expect construction lighting overnight

If you usually cross Hurontario at Harborn to reach the QEW ramps or the other half of the neighborhood, plan on going around until mid-November. Metrolinx notes that work can be delayed or rescheduled because of weather. The posted end date is the plan, not a promise.

The intersection marks a project boundary too. Metrolinx splits construction in Mississauga South into three work zones. Work Zone 1 runs from Park Street to Inglewood Drive, Work Zone 2 from Inglewood Drive to South Service Road, and Work Zone 3 from the QEW north ramp to Harborn Road. Mineola falls inside the first two zones. Harborn closes off the third.

What Shows Up on the Street Next

Guideway concrete is work you see once. The phase after it is what will change how Hurontario looks for years. In its Fall 2026 general notice for the stretch between Park Street and the QEW, Metrolinx lists current work as track installation and maintenance, electrical and telecommunications work, and roadwork. It then lists what comes next:

1. More trackwork
2. Landscaping and boulevard restoration
3. Traffic signals moving from temporary spans to permanent signal infrastructure
4. LRT stop installation
5. Overhead catenary poles and cable lines
6. LRV testing and energizing the LRT stops

Most of that list is visible. Restored boulevards, new signal poles, finished platforms and a line of catenary poles strung with wire will make the Mineola stretch look like a working transit corridor long before a passenger boards. The last item is where the project shifts from building the line to proving it works.

Expect some inconvenience along the way. The notice warns that driveways facing Hurontario may be blocked at times, that some work may happen overnight and on weekends because of lighter traffic or weather, and that drivers may see minor delays and occasional temporary road closures. It also says all businesses in the area stay open during the work, with signage pointing to their access.

Why Finished Poles Don't Mean a Finished Line

The closest thing to an official timeline came in August. Metrolinx president and CEO Michael Lindsay told CityNews on August 11, 2026 that 75 per cent of the track work was done, the guideways were almost done, and eight of 14 traction power substations were energized.

His forecast was about the next stage, not trains in service. "We hope to have all civil infrastructure on this project complete by roughly this time next year," Lindsay said, "and at that point we'd enter the kind of testing phase that this jurisdiction saw from Eglinton and Finch."

He meant the civil infrastructure for the whole line, so "roughly this time next year" points to about August 2027 for the end of construction. Testing follows that. CityNews noted that on Line 5 Eglinton and Line 6 Finch West, final testing and commissioning took months, which could push the 19-stop, $5.4-billion line's opening to the end of 2027 or into 2028.

Here is where each estimate stands:

The last row matters most. In a statement to Global News, a Metrolinx spokesperson said a final completion date will be announced "after the systems integration milestone is successfully complete and we enter the Revenue Service Demonstration phase." So when catenary wire goes up over Hurontario near Mineola Road, that is not the moment an opening date gets set. The date comes later, once systems integration is complete.

Metrolinx has started early testing. An August 11 to 18, 2026 notice scheduled a slow-speed light rail vehicle test from the operations facility to Hurontario Street by way of Edwards Boulevard and Topflight Drive. Lindsay told CityNews these early train movements were based on lessons from the Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West projects and were meant to speed up system integration. That test ran far north of the QEW. Nothing has run in the south segment yet.

Port Credit GO remains the line's southern terminus, and Metrolinx's project page describes an 18-kilometre route with 19 stops. If you see a stop list with more than 20 stops in an older City display board or article, it comes from an earlier design.

The Neighborhood Has Lived With This a While

None of this is new to people on this stretch. In a September 2025 INsauga report, Ward 1 Councillor Stephen Dasko said that "of all the complaints I get in the ward from the QEW right down to the Port Credit area, it is clearly in the top three." His ward includes the Mineola stretch, and those comments came before the current Harborn closure.

The Fall 2026 notice sets out what the finishing phase will bring along Hurontario: driveways that may be blocked at times, and some signal, stop and pole work scheduled overnight or on weekends.

Buses, and a Walkable Saturday

Until the trains run, the bus is still how you take transit on Hurontario. MiWay's fall service changes took effect October 26, 2026 and include schedule changes on Route 2 Hurontario, Route 17 Hurontario and Route 23 Lakeshore, among others. The City's announcement doesn't connect these changes to LRT construction, so check your usual departure times against the new schedule.

The south end of the corridor has an easy plan this weekend. The Port Credit BIA is hosting trick-or-treating at participating local businesses on Saturday, October 31, 2026, from noon to 3 p.m. Port Credit Memorial Park at 40 Stavebank Road is close by, with a playground, skate park, picnic areas, open lawn and a pavilion. The City lists it as open daily from dawn until 11 p.m. From most of Mineola you can reach it by walking down Stavebank, without crossing the Harborn closure or driving the Hurontario work zone. For more on the neighborhoods at either end of the corridor, see our Mineola and Port Credit pages.

After November 17, watch for the next Metrolinx notice for the Park Street to QEW stretch. Notices for signal switchovers, stop installation or catenary work mean the street is entering its finishing stage. A posted Revenue Service Demonstration phase will be the first sign that trains are getting close.

If you're planning a renovation, a move or a sale along Hurontario and want to know how this construction schedule might affect your timing, Corrie Harding-Keizs and the CHK team follow the Mineola corridor closely. Request a personalized market consultation and we'll go through it with you street by street.