Rob Ford’s transit strategy is costing, not saving, the city a lot of money

Rob Ford’s transit strategy is costing, not saving, the city a lot of money

Seizing on the opportunity to run a photo of Rob Ford in a goofy hard hat, the Globe and Mail takes the mayor to task for his transit strategy—specifically his decision to extend the Sheppard subway and bury the Eglinton LRT. But apparently all is not lost. The Globe argues Ford still has a way out: reverting to the original Eglinton plan and using the surplus cash as “seed money” for a public-private partnership that would finally see Sheppard built. Of course, as John Michael McGrath at OpenFile points out, the same money could be used to build a Finch LRT line “almost twice.” And although the Globe cites Vancouver’s Canada Line as an example of a working public-private transit partnership, we’re still skeptical—not only about the feasibility of the same approach, but also of how essential the Sheppard line is in the first place. Read the entire story [Globe and Mail] »