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QUOTED: David Shiner on tunnels, subways and the TTC

By Andrew D’Cruz
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My personal opinion, having served on the TTC [board] for four and a half years, is they have tunnel vision. Unfortunately, it’s not tunnel vision to build a subway. It’s tunnel vision in trying to stretch dollars the farthest way that they can to provide an inferior type of transit system.

— Councillor David Shiner, explaining away that pesky previously unreleased TTC report that argues there’s no good reason to go ahead with the Sheppard subway. [Toronto Star]

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