The three leading candidates for mayor have different, and controversial, visions, about how we'll get around. Here's where they stand on the most contentious points
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Doug Ford
Ford would keep the proposed Scarborough extension. He cites it as an example of subway-building progress under his brother’s mayoralty.
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John Tory
Tory has ruled out changing plans in Scarborough, calling it a rare decision that brought together the three levels of government.
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Olivia Chow
Chow says she will kill the proposed subway extension and revert to the light rail plan which would be funded by the province.
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Doug Ford
Ford wants to kill the province’s plans for LRT here and re-direct the money toward subway lines.
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John Tory
Tory initially said that LRTs on these roads couldn’t be a priority for him. He has subsequently come out in favour.
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Olivia Chow
Chow supports the province’s plan to build light rail lines on the surface of Sheppard east and Finch west.
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Doug Ford
Ford said this week that the eastern portion of the downtown relief line, which the TTC lists as its top priority, will be the first subway he’d have built. His funding plan remains vague.
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John Tory
Tory has said that his so-called SmartTrack plan brings sooner relief than the DRL, a line on which he has offered mixed message. He said recently, though, that preliminary DRL work should occur. He would fund it through tax increment financing.
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Olivia Chow
Chow has pledged to begin initial work toward the eastern portion of the downtown relief line, which the TTC says is its top priority. She says part of it could be funded by cancelling the Scarborough subway extension.
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Doug Ford
The Eglinton LRT line is being built mostly underground. Ford claims, incorrectly, that his brother was responsible for burying it and he is furious that the line runs above-ground in the east end. He calls this a sign of Scarborough is being mistreated and is promising to tunnel that section as well.
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John Tory
Tory’s transportation platform is largely based around his rail plan but he has also committed to other noteworthy improvements. He has promised to increase the number of express bus routes, which have fewer stops but higher fares. And he has floated the possibility of water transportation, an idea that has not been fleshed out.
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Olivia Chow
The centrepiece of Chow’s plan is a promise to increase bus service by 10 per cent, arguing that the majority of riders spend at least part of their trip on a bus. Her proposal calls for keeping some buses longer than the TTC would like and budgets $184-million for new vehicles and a garage.