All Entries Tagged With: "subways"
The Smell Test: Are Candidates Transit Claims Off The Rails?
The Toronto Star rolls out a new feature: “The Smell Test”, where they evaluate claims on major issues made by the leading mayoral candidates. First up: transportation: Sarah Thomson: According to TTC officials, a kilometre of subway costs about $300 million to design and build — $100 million more than Thomson budgeted. It’s not certain [...]
Sun Editorial: Ford’s Subways To Nowhere
The Toronto Sun Editorial Board pans the “airy fairy” transportation plan mayoral candidate Rob Ford announced earlier this week: “We’re surprised a city councillor who has built his career warning there’s no free lunch at city hall, now says there’s a free lunch when it comes to the new subways he’s proposing — at least [...]
Sprawling Transit System Key To Improving Our City: Thomson
Mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson met with Town Crier Editorial Board to discuss her vision for the city, including her plan to expand the subway system: “There’s this division growing between the rich and poor, downtown and the outer suburbs. We’ve got to stop that division,” she said. “If you live in Scarborough, it can take [...]
Smitherman Releases Transporation Plan
Mayoral frontrunner George Smitherman unveiled his long-awaited transportation plan yesterday, which totals $17.4 Billion in investments – $7-Billion of which coming from taxpayers: “Mr. Smitherman called it an “integrated” plan that is divided into two phases, the first of which would finish the Spadina line in time for the PanAm Games in 2015, extend the [...]
Mayoral Candidates Eye Metrolinx Partnership
With two of the leading mayoral candidates indicating a willingness to review and possible alter transit jurisdiction, the idea of transferring the subway system to the province seems to once again be on the table: “Mr. Smitherman, who wouldn’t comment on his transit platform Wednesday, has indicated he’s much less opposed to giving transit jurisdiction [...]
Gee: Subway Tunnels In The Sky
Globe columnist Marcus Gee is skeptical the mayoral candidates can deliver on their pledge to bring expanded an subway system to Toronto residents: “Subways cost around three times as much as light rail. Expanding the Spadina subway north to York University, for example, is costing about $300-million a kilometre. Do the math.Yet some of our [...]
Granatstein: Off The Rails
Sun Editor Rob Granatstein would like to see some detailed planning go along with all the pledges from Toronto’s mayoral candidates to fund new subway construction: “What if there aren’t the population densities necessary to support subways, or make the return on investment worthwhile today, or in 25 years, when we have another million people [...]
Nickle: Candidates With Least To Lose Have Most To Say
Toronto Community News’ Dave Nickle notes that the ambition of policy platforms seem to be correlated to the electoral prospects of the candidate. The latest example being Sarah Thomson: “[W]hile everybody likes the idea of subways, promising to build them in the current climate is akin to promising to set up a municipal space program. [...]
Thomson Calls For Tolls To Fund Expanded Subway
In her first major announcement, mayoral candidate Sarah Thompson has stated that if elected, she would implement road tolls to fund a significant expansion of the city’s subway system: “If elected, Thomson says she would add 58 kilometres of track across the city, extending the subway west to Pearson Airport, east through Scarborough and north [...]
Thomson: Torontonians Want More Subways
On her website, mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson has surveyed enough Torontoians to be convinced that they are resoundingly in favour of subways, rather than light rail: “If an expanded subway system is what the people of Toronto want then it is something that the people of Toronto should have. I am committed to making this [...]
