During a conversation with AM 640, Doug Ford suggested he had looked at an opposition-led plan to buy back part or all of Highway 407 but opted to tunnel under the 401 instead.
, an idea long-touted by opposition parties, to reduce congestion around Toronto, before deciding on its current plan to build an expressway beneath Highway 401 .
“We’ll look at all options, we’ll put every option on the table, be it 30 kilometres, 40 km, 50 km,” Ford told AM 640 on Saturday. “My theory is once you start boring, you never take the boring machine out of the ground,” Ford said. “If you can afford 30 km then you do 30, then you eventually continue on with the balance as well.”
“We’re also looking at a transit system down the centre of the tunnel going down the 401 and that would stop at every single stop,” Ford said. “We’ve thought of that as well,” Ford said. “Previous government sold it off for $2.3 billion, which was the biggest mistake I’ve ever seen.”
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