McGuinty deals a blow to Toronto by delaying LRT funds

McGuinty deals a blow to Toronto by delaying LRT funds

Province relegates money for Transit City expansion to what the mayor calls the ‘never, never plan’

... With half the funding put on hold – around $4-billion in all – it’s not clear that the web of transit lines that were to tie central Toronto to its periphery will ever be built. At the very least, the project has been pushed back for a decade.

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Yes, the $2.6-billion extension of the Spadina subway line to York University is proceeding and due to open in 2015. And, yes, the Sheppard LRT line, already under construction, seems to have escaped Mr. McGuinty’s axe. But who knows what will happen now to the rest of the scheme, from the Finch and Eglinton LRT lines to the replacement of the Scarborough rapid transit line?

... Toronto is already way behind many other cities on transit. For a booming city that is absorbing around 50,000 new immigrants a year, the need for better mass transit is obvious. As Mr. Miller put it, “we can’t let another generation pass before we do what was needed, frankly, 20 years ago. Somehow we’ve lost out way.”

How we’ll get back on track now, nobody can say.

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