Sheppard 线改地铁看来要成真！

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转贴自 InsideToronto   DAVID NICKLE|Feb 18, 2011 - 11:20 AM
Mayor moves to make subway plan reality
Plan to access private funding for Sheppard subway 'a work in progress'

The City of Toronto could be taking over responsibility for building a subway along Sheppard Avenue - while the provincially owned Metrolinx continues to build the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail line and the new Scarborough Rapid Transit Line.

Metrolinx and the city have been talking since Tuesday, after Mayor Rob Ford delivered a proposal to revamp Toronto's Transit City network of light rail.

That plan, incorporated into the provincial government's regional Big Move transit expansion plan, would have seen light rail along Sheppard Avenue through Scarborough, and also along Eglinton Avenue and Finch Avenue. The replacement of the aging Scarborough RT line from Kennedy Station to the Scarborough Town Centre would also have been replaced.

But Mayor Ford made it clear during last fall's election that he would scrap the surface light rail lines, and instead build subways, largely in Scarborough.

On Thursday, Ford confirmed the communication had taken place last week.

"I can't get into details," he said. "I said I was going to build subways, I am building subways. I said public money's not available, that the private sector would be asked. That's what's going to happen."

Ford indicated to reporters that the city's proposal is still a work in progress, and wouldn't speak to any further details.

But officials at Metrolinx confirmed that the city's proposal would see the Sheppard LRT cancelled, and a subway built with city money.

The provincial government has $8.15 billion committed to the project in Toronto. The Sheppard subway would be removed from that pie, and would be paid for by a mix of development charges and tax increment finances - essentially, new taxes.

The Eglinton Crosstown, meanwhile, would be constructed by Metrolinx.

The city and Metrolinx will also have to deal with approximately $137 million in costs that have already been sunk into the project.

Metrolinx will also have to review the 182 LRTs that have already been ordered.

The Finch LRT, meanwhile, would likely be replaced by an express bus service between Finch West Station and Humber College.


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西 罗

要修地铁就应该像纽约和巴黎一样早点修。
现在修，劳民伤财还没人坐。

李红霞

这段地铁处于亏损状态,谁会投资?把钱往水里扔?

freecn

sheppard 路上有多少人流不用说大家都看得到。为什么地铁会没人，就是当年被强行断在DONMILL, 继续接到STC，让整条线真正发挥作用，为什么大多人支持的事，楼上要反对呢？不过是为了反对FORD 而反对，太拙劣了。

从来没有救世主

sheppard 路上有多少人流不用说大家都看得到。为什么地铁会没人，就是当年被强行断在DONMILL, 继续接到STC，让整条线真正发挥作用，为什么大多人支持的事，楼上要反对呢？不过是为了反对FORD 而反对，太拙劣了。
freecn 发表于 2011-2-19 10:30

现在成了省选议题了，估计很快选总理的也要来表态一下了。。。

满 江 红

sheppard 路上有多少人流不用说大家都看得到。为什么地铁会没人，就是当年被强行断在DONMILL, 继续接到STC，让整条线真正发挥作用，为什么大多人支持的事，楼上要反对呢？不过是为了反对FORD 而反对，太拙劣了。
freecn 发表于 2011-2-19 10:30

    那位是著名TTC工会代表。地铁因为会大量减少用工，遭到工会极力抵制。