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from the Globe and Mail online. Link:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1167873/
Time for a tunnel to island airport?
Tenille Bonoguore and Jennifer Lewington
Friday, Jun. 05, 2009 03:43AM EDT
Seventy-two years after it was first sunk, the dream of an underwater tunnel connecting the mainland to the Toronto Islands is being floated again.
The Toronto Port Authority has asked for millions of the federal government's stimulus money to build a 120-metre pedestrian tunnel from the base of Bathurst Street to the Toronto City Centre Airport terminal, whisking people on moving walkways 27 metres underground.
It's an idea that has caught the imagination of city officials before. It was first proposed in 1935, as a $1-million project during the Depression. The idea divided the city, and was quashed by prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
Toronto Island tunnel proposal 2009
Toronto Port Authority's proposal for a tunnel across the Western Gap (pdf)
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Sixty years later, then-mayor Barbara Hall resurrected the idea.Now, it's the TPA's turn. And the only thing blocking the project, the authority says, is a lack of cash. This time, estimated cost is $20-million to $40-million.
The tripartite agreement governing the airport allows for a pedestrian tunnel, says TPA chief executive Alan Paul. “We just need the money,†he said.
The current tunnel proposal “is no more and no less than an idea,†said TPA chair Mark McQueen.
It is not part of the port authority's capital works plan, and was belatedly added to a wish list for stimulus money the port authority submitted to Ottawa.
“If the federal government would like to proceed with a project of this nature, we'll be pleased to assist in its execution,†he said.
from the Globe and Mail online. Link:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1167873/
Time for a tunnel to island airport?
Tenille Bonoguore and Jennifer Lewington
Friday, Jun. 05, 2009 03:43AM EDT
Seventy-two years after it was first sunk, the dream of an underwater tunnel connecting the mainland to the Toronto Islands is being floated again.
The Toronto Port Authority has asked for millions of the federal government's stimulus money to build a 120-metre pedestrian tunnel from the base of Bathurst Street to the Toronto City Centre Airport terminal, whisking people on moving walkways 27 metres underground.
It's an idea that has caught the imagination of city officials before. It was first proposed in 1935, as a $1-million project during the Depression. The idea divided the city, and was quashed by prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
Toronto Island tunnel proposal 2009
Toronto Port Authority's proposal for a tunnel across the Western Gap (pdf)
Download
Sixty years later, then-mayor Barbara Hall resurrected the idea.Now, it's the TPA's turn. And the only thing blocking the project, the authority says, is a lack of cash. This time, estimated cost is $20-million to $40-million.
The tripartite agreement governing the airport allows for a pedestrian tunnel, says TPA chief executive Alan Paul. “We just need the money,†he said.
The current tunnel proposal “is no more and no less than an idea,†said TPA chair Mark McQueen.
It is not part of the port authority's capital works plan, and was belatedly added to a wish list for stimulus money the port authority submitted to Ottawa.
“If the federal government would like to proceed with a project of this nature, we'll be pleased to assist in its execution,†he said.