denfromoakvillemilton
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I have read that del duca drives down the 400 to queens park every day, but is planning to take the subway when it opens in a couple years.
During the election he was a big champion of GO expansion. All of his local election signs had bright yellow addons on top with a line about it.
Give him a bit of time, he is still new to the position. Hard to criticise him if he hasn't had the time to read the reports yet.
I'll accept a few dud projects being on the priority list for the next 4 years provided the useful and good ones get tendered.
The TTC driven EA for Scarborough Subway (it's not a Metrolinx project) will be enough to cancel the scarborough subway and we'll start rebuilding the SRT in 2018; regardless of who is mayor at the time. Even a re-elected Ford won't stomach another property tax increase necessary to fund the higher than expected pricetag. Very few projects get through the EA with a lower than expected cost.
It sucks for the residents of Scarborough who could have had the rebuilt SRT in another 12 months but many willingly participated in the hijinks that caused the delays.
Del Luca seems not to realize there is no formal agreement to build the subway. But I would like to point out it will take at least two votes to cancel the subway, although I believe it can be done rbt. And I'm glad you called out the voters. They put Ford it, they enabled him to do this 4 year delay.He's been in this position for over a month. I say that's enough time to get caught up.
But if he doesn't know anything about transit, maybe he should educate himself before making the comments he did in the Torontoist article.
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