The province is preparing to agree a fourth contract in its plans to build the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension. The latest contract will build seven stations.

On Saturday, some residents staged a protest near the Eglinton Flats, a park that provincial transit agency Metrolinx plans to run its Eglinton Crosstown West line through.

"We aren't going to close down Eglinton Avenue, one of the busiest streets in Toronto. We're going to dig, we're going to tunnel, we're going to put that line underground where it belongs," Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday.