{"id":3996,"date":"2009-02-02T12:23:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/02\/02\/poll-what-should-be-the-name-of-torontos-proposed-downtown-relief-line\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:48:13","slug":"poll-what-should-be-the-name-of-torontos-proposed-downtown-relief-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/02\/02\/poll-what-should-be-the-name-of-torontos-proposed-downtown-relief-line\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: What should be the name of Toronto&#8217;s proposed Downtown Relief Line?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/16\/20381347_ad6cd24551.jpg\" height=\"332\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/kevinsteele\/20381347\/\">Kevin Steele<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Spacing readers (and many Torontonians) became rather excited by the prospect of a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/01\/29\/city-council-boards-the-drl-bandwagon\/\">downtown relief subway line (DRL)<\/a>. City Council approved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/toronto\/story.html?id=1230770\">a study of the line<\/a> (and nothing else) but that didn&#8217;t stop our prolific commenters from suggesting a plethora of names for the future line.<\/p>\n<p>I scoured our comments section and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups.php?id=511375398#\/group.php?gid=10757265438\">DRL group on Facebook<\/a> to come up with an unofficial list of names to choose from. 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