Posted on 26/03/07
New subway about moving 905 voters
A senior TTC official describes the planned Spadina subway extension into York Region as purely political, adding an expletive describing horse excrement for effect.It's a megaproject pushed by the province, this official says, based not on sound transit planning but on a desire to attract suburban voters. He fears it will suck up all available public-transit funding for a decade, dimming hopes the Toronto Transit Commission's more economical light-rail plan will ever be more than lines on a map.
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