unimaginative2
Senior Member
Exactly, rpgr.
So Giambrone himself says that it will cost a billion dollars to finish the 8kms remaining on the Sheppard subway. He claims that we can build about 80 kms of LRT for the same amount of money? Strange, since the 15km "Scarborough-Malvern" LRT line was to cost $630 million for less than twice the distance and a far inferior level of service, and this was before the total cost of Transit City ballooned from $6-billion to $9-billion.
To the dismay of Shiner and other subway boosters, finishing the line doesn't seem to be in the cards any time soon. The TTC's latest plan for the corridor calls for a streetcar right-of-way, or LRT, to complete the route along Sheppard.
"Instead of spending a billion dollars to finish the line, we can do (about) 10 times as much LRT for that same amount of money," TTC chair Adam Giambrone says.
So Giambrone himself says that it will cost a billion dollars to finish the 8kms remaining on the Sheppard subway. He claims that we can build about 80 kms of LRT for the same amount of money? Strange, since the 15km "Scarborough-Malvern" LRT line was to cost $630 million for less than twice the distance and a far inferior level of service, and this was before the total cost of Transit City ballooned from $6-billion to $9-billion.