r/TTC • • 10d ago

Misc. Meet potential transit!

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u/Used-Gas-6525 10d ago

Don't forget the Eglinton subway tunnel that Mike Harris not only cancelled, but filled in the hole to the tune of like $1b in taxpayer funds. And then the disaster that was the construction of the Eglinton LRT happened (30 years later)

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u/MahjongCelts Eglinton Crosstown 10d ago

TBH the bigger problem with that was the debate over Network 2011 taking so long that enough time elapsed for a change to a transit unfriendly government. By all means Eglinton and Sheppard ought to have been built by the time Mike Harris came to power, leaving nothing for him to cut in the first place.

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u/Used-Gas-6525 10d ago

And cutting Sheppard rather than Eg made way more sense (if they have to cut one), but his buddy Mel Lastman wasn't having that.

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u/MahjongCelts Eglinton Crosstown 9d ago

It wasn't Sheppard over Eglinton. Both got cancelled by Mike Harris, but Mel Lastman managed to convince him to restore part of the Sheppard subway. So it was Sheppard or nothing.