denfromoakvillemilton
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Good Question, I don't know. I hope it does not come to that!So even if Hudak meets his promise of cutting taxes and eliminating the deficit by 2019, then the best we can hope for is restarting subway construction then. And yet the next election (presuming we don't elect a minority government) will be October 2018. So even by his own admission he'd go into the 2018 election with no progression on transit?
How much will filling in Eglinton cost this time?
I do. Cut and cover is efficiency. Eglinton is already along, but do you want them to wast 10 years building Sheppard East if it becomes a subway?It actually doesn't include design if you look at any of underground subways built in Toronto recently (which I cited Sheppard and Spadina extension), or the DRL which from Danforth to King & University is expected to take 15 years.
You can also look at the Eglinton underground section which will take 8 years optimistically and the construction is the same as an underground subway.
I know BurlOak will immediately respond that we should use elevated everywhere, but common, most people mean underground when they talk about subways in Toronto and all subways built recently and subways planned like the DRL would be tunnelled underground. I don't see this changing.
Me Neither, but the mini depresson is almost over and they could have started to prevent Hudak from cancelling it.That was related to part b) making the money flow.
They ran up against a debt wall (directly related to the 2008 recession). I wasn't happy; thought Sheppard was a better project than most of the small-time maintenance stuff in the Canada Economic Action Plan.