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LOL. The line will be built, the Centre will be prospering, commuters will be moving freely from North Central & Central Scarborough and some peeps here on UT, (the heavy majority will never use the line) will still be whining like nothing before. Wont be as bad but can't wait for stage 2 when...

Robs plans were conceptually the same, the major difference was he was politically stonewalled on City council and Doug now has ultimate power to deliver. Whether it was a BDL extension, or his agreement with the Province to build the connected ECLRT to SCC, and the Sheppard subway all were...

Miller was very good for transit operations, absolutely terrible at the main capital projects. Ford was the exact opposite. The City would have been far better served with these two being Mayors in a reverse order. Get the proper plans in place for the main arteries then see greater support...

Good catch, 6 week extension. Not overly uncommon in normal times, may not even impact timelines.

Millers tenure and transit plan was the cause, the aftermath was the effect. Thankfully we will never see a political uprising of this magnitude with transit planning at the forefront again.

If the DRL/OL had been prioritized better from the start we wouldn't have seen such extreme geographical political desire to hack in Scarborough Centre or such a poorly detailed plan. The worst of the wheel spinning has actually ended since the toxic City council has been finally removed from...

Seriously compared to a one stop subway or the transfer LRT it is more then welcome The issue is LRT network was never designed to remove the transfer and on Sheppard was adding a new one. It shouldn't have been the difficult from the start to extend the BDL more economically or LRT in a...

This is such a Toronto Star narrated, untrue view. Actually the fact is Scarborough council requested the BDL be extended at the beginning of Millers initial term, sadly the Councillors then went along with the unrepresentative leadership when it wasn't the preference as something needed to be...

While there are alot of complex politics being played for the RL/OL, I would argue even then, outside of UT the OL the line will still be very well supported locally overall to move forward and the SSE is well supported across many party lines locally. Also while elevated portions were also a...

Both the connected LRT and subway solutions were tabled at the City. Sadly a collectively dysfunctional City council denied both options as wither would have brought together a comparable solution. The issue is the City has shown itself far too politically and more importantly geographically...

Kinda unfortunate there is only 3 stops instead of 4, but when Scarborough was facing a choice of Transfer City vs. a 1 stop subway extension it's really refreshing to see this line move forward in such a good state Looking at the timeline for tunneling, this Government realistically couldn't...

Is there any viable way to reduce the costs here without hacking in Central Scarborough the the exiting Sheppard stub? If no, then the subway will be rightfully extended to Malvern.

. Same nonsense for decades out of this tiny shady 'grassroots' group and their union group partners with their uncompromising transfer LRT promotion and usual anti conservative shtick to act as the voice of Scarborough residents You can copy and paste a similar articles from Metroland...

Look at the large parcels of land, not to mention the surrounding beautiful landscape UofT owns in East Scarborough which it has planned to grow into for the future. The cost to buy anything remotely close to this in magnitude around Kennedy is absurd even if it was possible to acquire. Which...

This is really such a narrow view of the City and greater region. It would be logistically, and financially unreasonable. Exactly why the Province should always be the ones making the big picture decisions on large scale infrastructure upgrades. Both locations are great and where they should be

I'm sure they'll get over the pain of saving 15 minutes a day. As someone who still takes this route on an even longer commute certain days of the week, I greatly appreciate any time savings and any detailed efficiencies we can add to leave a better long term legacy when upgrading major...

You are correct, the tunnel is direct to the hospital and looking at the aggressive timeline to RFP the tunnel, there really would not be room for any major modification. Any change to the tunnel design would have added atleast another year on. Safe to assume nothing significant came out of...

Bus frequency should be fairly consistent once the BRT is constructed along Ellesmere. Whether comparing bus or RT, removing the secondary point of failure, especially in the winter months will alleviate major frustration and extra delay.

This type of truly unfortunate rhettoric above is getting exactly what was asked for both financially and politically Scarborough is finally good now the outside entitlement politics has been fully removed

First off, Malvern should have already had a subway stop if the City wasn't monkeying around trying to spread watered down butter across the toast with the transfer plan, Secondly now that we have long moved on, Malvern is on the books to receive an EELRT stop, and the City has no reason not to...