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Smitherman's campaign website says: •George supports constructing the Waterfront LRT by 2015 which will enable Torontonians to get to Cherry/Clark beaches and enjoy themselves.
I think he may be geographically challenged as there are no plans to bring the waterfront LRT east past Parliament Street for many years. There will be a line from King Street down Cherry to the rail corridor, one from Union Station to Parliament along Queens Quay and the plan is for these to be built in 2012/13 (or at least finished for Pan Am Games) and these will be linked under the railway berm as soon as the plans and work on the lower Don are finalised, possibly by 2015 and the PA Games. Extending the line further east to Cherry Beach, Unwin Street, Tommy Thompson Park and, I suppose, the new streetcar barns at Leslie and Queen Street is FAR further away.
I think he may be geographically challenged as there are no plans to bring the waterfront LRT east past Parliament Street for many years. There will be a line from King Street down Cherry to the rail corridor, one from Union Station to Parliament along Queens Quay and the plan is for these to be built in 2012/13 (or at least finished for Pan Am Games) and these will be linked under the railway berm as soon as the plans and work on the lower Don are finalised, possibly by 2015 and the PA Games. Extending the line further east to Cherry Beach, Unwin Street, Tommy Thompson Park and, I suppose, the new streetcar barns at Leslie and Queen Street is FAR further away.