If Ford lets the experts steer the ship, it’s not inconceivable he could go become the premier who landed downtown Torontonians their white whale subway
I’ll say this much at least about Premier Doug Ford’s big $28.5 billion transit announcement on Wednesday morning : I never thought I would see him so enthusiastically tout a much-needed transit line to and through enemy territory in downtown Toronto. Faint praise, perhaps, but when Ford said he wanted to upload Toronto’s subways to the province, I never imagined a plan even half this superficially sane.
The order here matters more than the timeline . It is undisputed that the DRL has to happen before the extension. That’s basic knowledge. But Ford is capable of ignoring or fouling up very basic knowledge when stumping for subways. This is a man who nearly promised Pickering one. On Wednesday, he sounded remarkably well briefed.
Mind you, this isn’t Councillor Doug Ford any more. Premier Ford’s transit map includes the Finch LRT, which will replace lanes of vehicular traffic; and Ford even boasted of his government funding the Hurontario LRT in Mississauga, which will do likewise. Five years ago that would have been unthinkably off brand: “subways subways subways,” Rob Ford’s famous battle cry, repeated by Doug of Wednesday, was far more anti-surface rail than it was pro-subways.
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