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[Northern Light]

This is a bit revisionist - especially relating to rapid transit access to Ontario Place / Exhibition.

Prior to Ford:

1. The Relief Line was planned as an expensive, bloated project running only from Pape to Osgoode.

It was not unusually expensive, and cheaper per Km than the Ontario Line.

No extension to Exhibition or Eglinton.

An extension to Eglinton was being actively studied, Pape was the Phase 1 terminus.

3. Yonge North was planned but going nowhere with no real work done on it in years

Still hasn't. (beyond design and property). Real work should begin soon. Minus Cummer Station it would seem, and at vastly more per km than the previous iteration which has a better route.

4. Scarborough Subway had been lurching along as a bloated, single-stop line with construction start constantly being pushed back

Scarborough had loads of different iterations through time because of City Council and Mayoral hijinx......one of those Mayors was a fella with the name Ford......whose brother was on that Council.

Now all four are under construction.

Three.......... Yonge North cannot be described as under construction currently.

Love of hate Ford - his progress on actually building transit expansion in Toronto is nothing short of remarkable and will leave a generational impact on the city. It is by far the largest legacy of his government.

Disagree, nothing remarkable about it............... the Liberals before him started work on Crosstown, a 22km long project; they delivered the TYSSE and UPX, the Georgetown South GO upgrades, the 3rd track on Lakeshore East GO, 15-minute weekday service on Lakeshore GO (which we no longer have because of Ford's incredibly unwise move of building a joint corridor, which is a colossal, generational mistake, just like the REM / Mt. Royal tunnel in Montreal).

Relating to the relief line especially, a western extension of the line wasn't even on the City's radar. The city had effectively 0 plans to address poor mobility in the west end of downtown.

The diversion to Exhibition is also an incorrect move. Yes, eventually, the line should have gone further west, and it would have. But Ford chose the wrong Terminus.

 

[picard102]

This is a bit revisionist - especially relating to rapid transit access to Ontario Place / Exhibition.

It's not though. The only thing of value Ford can be said to have done with the OL vs DRL, is include phase 2 stations. Diverting to Exhibition is not a value add.
Yonge was always going to be pushed back until the DRL or Eglington were underway, but now it's another boondoggle thanks to Ford.
Scarborough is another Ford family disaster.