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RSS FeedsToronto council to `consider endorsing´ Ford´s transit plans so long as they won´t hold up city projects
(The Star Food)

 
 

17 april 2019 21:25:21

 
Toronto council to `consider endorsing´ Ford´s transit plans so long as they won´t hold up city projects
(The Star Food)
 


Toronto council says it will “consider endorsing” the province’s new transit plans if it gets confirmation they won’t unduly hold up the city’s priority projects, setting up a potential showdown with the Ontario Progressive Conservatives in two months.At a meeting on Wednesday, councillors overwhelmingly approved a motion to advise Queen’s Park the city’s will consider the endorsement subject to “confirmation” the plan won’t “result in an unreasonable delay” to lines council has already approved. Those include the relief line, Scarborough subway extension, Mayor John Tory’s SmartTrack project, and LRTs on Eglinton and the Waterfront.The city manager will undertake an assessment of the province’s plans and report back to council in June, the same month by which Premier Doug Ford’s government plans to introduce legislation to wrest control of transit expansion projects from the city.Ford unveiled his $28.5-billion transit proposal at a press conference last week. At its heart is the Ontario Line, which would replace the city-led plan for a relief line subway to serve the downtown core. The province is also planning to build a three-stop Scarborough subway extension, instead of the city’s single-stop plan.Councillor Joe Cressy (Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York), who moved the motion about delays, said Torontonians “are sick and tired of politicians drawing a new transit map after every election.” He displayed a series of maps on a screen in the council chamber that showed transit plans various politicians had unveiled over the past decade — including a subway proposal from the premier’s brother and former mayor Rob Ford, as well as Mayor John Tory’s original 22-stop SmartTrack proposal — none of which have been built.Cressy predicted the province’s new proposal, which the premier presented without supporting technical studies, would me ...


 
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