Toronto is still without the delay-plagued Eglinton Crosstown LRT. The future TTC Line 5 is woefully overdue and over budget, and public patience is running thin for a much-needed transit route that has yet to be delivered as of summer 2024.

As the masses impatiently wait to actually ride a line that should have opened four years earlier, Metrolinx has been producing slick videos to keep the flames of hype alive. However, to some, they have just read as a painful reminder that billions of dollars in transit infrastructure currently sit unused.

For its latest preview of the forthcoming transit line, Metrolinx is offering a glimpse inside the western terminus of the Crosstown at Mount Dennis Station.

Explore the past, present, and future of the Mt. Dennis Station on the #EglintonCrosstown. From the Kodak factory to a new transit hub, see the journey unfold. Watch now! pic.twitter.com/EDIYtUO1XK

— Metrolinx (@Metrolinx) July 25, 2024

Before it was a transit station, the site of Mount Dennis Station was home to a vast 48-acre Kodak manufacturing operation, until dwindling business (Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1975 but then buried the tech to keep film dominant — which obviously didn't work out) forced the campus to shutter in 2006.

The station building is housed within the walls of the former Kodak Building 9, the last surviving building of 12 previously on site.

After sitting abandoned for years, Building 9 was acquired by Metrolinx in 2013, and quite literally lifted up and moved 200 feet to a new location on the former Kodak campus in 2017 to allow construction of the transit hub, before later being moved back into its original position where it will soon welcome transit riders.

Flythrough footage shared by Metrolinx shows the historic building's interiors with the now-incorporated transit station. Unfortunately, this feels like the closest anyone is going to get to the new station any time soon.

At the time of that building move operation, the Crosstown was expected to be operational by 2021, and yet, here we are in 2024, three years later, waiting to board that first LRV on a still yet-to-be-announced opening date.

The initial leg of the Crosstown is still pending completion as work is quickly progressing for the second phase of the cursed transit line, the Crosstown West Extension.

The 9.2-kilometre extension's tunnelling work is now complete and is expected to be operational by 2031. Once complete, the additional stretch of seven stations will push the combined line's new terminus west to Renforth Drive.

Mount Dennis will also connect commuters with GO Transit's Kitchener lines via four new train platforms constructed adjacent to the station, as well as a stop on the UP Express.