实事上,世家堡的地铁实施已经延误了30多年,早在80年代省府就计划在雪帕沿线建地铁了,直到95年的保守党多数政府执政,才真正开始运作,2002年建成目前的短途,其他路段被冷冻。
报纸报道见下:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/03/23/newsmaker-scarboroughs-promised-subway/
By Steve Kupferman At this week’s special council meeting on the future of Sheppard Avenue’s rapid transit, Scarborough-Agincourt Councillor Mike Del Grande put his preference for a subway extension (as opposed to surface light rail) in perspective: “We have been waiting 30 years,” he said. “I moved up to Scarborough in the ’80s because I was told there was a subway coming.” His timeline is not an exaggeration.
1980 Scarborough celebrates what will be its last subway expansion for quite some time, when Kennedy Station opens to the public.
1985 The TTC unveils Network 2011, its 28-year plan for transit expansion in Metro Toronto. The plan calls for a Sheppard subway to be built in two phases: the first phase, to start construction in 1989, would link the Yonge subway line and Victoria Park; the second phase, to break ground in 2004, would extend the line to Spadina in the west and Scarborough City Centre in the east. Oh, and between those two bouts of construction, Metro is also supposed to build a downtown relief rapid-transit line and another rapid-transit line on Eglinton Avenue. 1986 After a year of squabbling over which of the proposed transit lines would be built first, Metro Council approves Network 2011, with Sheppard Avenue slated for first-phase construction. The plan is for trains to be running to Victoria Park by 1993. 1990 Network 2011 calls for the province to bear 75% of its construction cost. The David Peterson government comes back with an alternative deal after years of haggling. Their new funding offer provides for a subway on Sheppard only if it can be built with private money. Earlier in the year, Metro Toronto officials had rejected a bid by developers to build the line and lease it back to the municipality. Late 1990 The NDP wrests a provincial majority from the Liberals, and GTA public transit plans are put on hold. 1993 Premier Bob Rae announces that the province will push ahead with a number of public-transit projects in Toronto, including a Sheppard subway to Don Mills, and also a subway on Eglinton.
1995 The Progressive Conservatives get their majority at Queen’s Park, and make more changes. Eglinton’s subway is scrapped; Sheppard moves ahead. 2002 The Sheppard subway opens to the public. It’s late, it’s short and it’s stubby. All plans to connect it to a broader subway network are on ice. |