SCARBOROUGH SUBWAY
- Video Scarborough subway: Ontario’s $1.4 billion pledge not enough, Karen Stintz says [Toronto Star]
- Scarborough subway: Route makes immigrants, students and poor the losers [Toronto Star]
- Liberals deny trying to buy Scarborough byelection with subway support [Toronto Sun]
- Karen Stintz ‘undermining’ Scarborough subway: Glen Murray [Toronto Sun]
- Funding shortfall looms for Scarborough subway extension after war of words [Globe & Mail]
- Scarborough subway deal could be killed after province promises $400M less than city says it needs [National Post]
TTC
- 70% of TTC subway passenger alarms misused last year [Toronto Sun]
- TTC advised not to ride to Bixi’s rescue [Toronto Sun]
ROB FORD
- Gawker to donate ‘Crackstarter’ funds to four charities [Toronto Star]
- Lawyers argue for search warrants linked to alleged Mayor Rob Ford crack video [Toronto Sun]
- Mayor Rob Ford: Senate just another gravy train [Toronto Sun]
- Gawker Rob Ford ‘Crackstarter’ cash going to four Ontario groups [Toronto Sun]
- Charities should reject Gawker’s ‘Crackstarter’ funds [Toronto Sun]
- Gawker names organizations to receive funds raised to buy alleged Rob Ford video [Globe & Mail]
- Gawker says where it’s sending the Rob Ford Crackstarter money … and it isn’t toward buying any video [National Post]
- Gawker ends hunt for purported Rob Ford crack video [CBC]
OTHER
- Toronto flooding: Should taxpayers keep funding erosion repairs? [Toronto Star]
- Toronto councillors vote against cutting council size [Toronto Sun]
- Council approves higher price tag of $91.5-million for redevelopment of St. Lawrence Market [National Post]
- City seeks to strengthen rules governing arborists as reports ‘not based on science’ lead to mislabelled trees [National Post]
3 comments
It looks like there may be less money coming then thought. Why not consider a better and less expensive plan.
Connect the SRT to ECLRT and elevate it over the Scarborough Portion of Eglinton. This gives you the 7 new stations (not 3), it eliminates the forced transfer, and it provides a transit network for Scarborough – not just a short extension of the subway or an LRT tacked on to the end of a subway. The cost premium would be in the $300M to $400M range, not $1B, and much of the +/-$320M for the Kennedy Station would not be “wasted” since there would be an LRT station there.
Awesome idea Walter – I’ve been wondering why that wasn’t the plan all along. Does anyone know why?
Walter, your idea makes sense generally, but without transfer, will there be more people funneled to Yonge line where it is over capacity, instead of transferring to BD line, which is probably more desirable from TTC’s perspective?