Completing the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line by 2020 is an aggressive target, but it remains achievable despite a Toronto Transit Commission report suggesting otherwise, a Metrolinx official said Wednesday.

The 2020 target can be met, said Jack Collins, vice-president of rapid transit implementation at the provincial body in charge of co-ordinating transit in the GTA and Hamilton.

"The Eglinton 2020 deadline, we're committed to," Collins told reporters at a press conference. "We realize it's an aggressive schedule."

Collins' comments came as the TTC reviewed a report which said it is unlikely that the construction of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line will be completed by 2020 as scheduled.

The report suggests the new line will likely not be ready to carry passengers until 2022 and says it is "unrealistic" to plan for its scheduled launch.

This is not the case, Collins said Wednesday, as he laid out the proposed schedule for construction.

The project will go through a procurement process to be completed by this fall, with design concluded by mid-2014, Collins said.

It will take five years to construct stations and system elements after that, with stations open by 2020, he said.

"We feel that the people of Toronto deserve transit as soon as possible," Collins said.

The TTC report up for review suggested that the intense construction timeframe as a potential problem with the project, as it would disproportionately disrupt communities along the transit line, specifically in areas where stations are to be placed underground.

"The Metrolinx schedule for Eglinton Crosstown LRT is considered by the TTC … to be extremely challenging and that by necessity it increases the risk of disproportionate disruption to communities," the report reads.

"Underground station construction is the most time intensive part of the project and, as it requires cut and cover construction, has the greatest disruption to the community."

The report, which is posted online, was presented at a Toronto Transit Commission meeting on Wednesday as part of an update on the city's transit expansion strategy.

The report also updates the progress of light-rail lines along Finch Avenue West and Sheppard Avenue East, as well as renovations along the Scarborough RT.

It suggests immediately starting construction along Sheppard Avenue, currently slated to begin in 2014, and start construction along Finch and on the Scarborough RT in 2015 as scheduled.