Council voted to consider allocating billions of dollars in federal funding to the project, provided a long list of questions can be answered and the plans don’t cause ‘unreasonable delay’
Toronto has edged closer to backing the province’s transit plan, including its version of the downtown relief line, voting to consider allocating billions of dollars in federal funding, provided that a long list of questions can be satisfactorily answered.
The votes Wednesday came only a week after Queen’s Park unveiled transit plans that involved changes to four Toronto-area projects. The province wants to bury a large part of the Eglinton West light-rail line, extend the Yonge subway north of the city to Richmond Hill, lengthen and add stations to the Scarborough subway extension and create a new version of the downtown relief line.
City staff have identified dozens of questions about the province’s relief line and its other projects. Among them are queries about what is included in the province’s cost estimates, the type of transit vehicles it is planning to use on the relief line and whether the province anticipates a need for environmental assessments.
One piece of leverage the city has is around funding. The total cost of the province’s transit plan is approximately $28-billion. And while Mr. Ford said his government is willing to pay the full cost, he is expecting contributions from the federal and municipal governments.
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