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Sheppard subway needs a quick, cool $10 million to kick-start a private-public partnership

By Stephen Spencer Davis
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Sheppard subway needs a quick, cool $10 million to kick-start a private-public partnership

Apparently, the city’s (read: Rob Ford’s) Sheppard subway dream could soon be a reality—just as long as the city is prepared to shell out another $10 million and suspend disbelief for another year. (Gordon Chong still believes the public-private partnership is “doable,” but with time and money he would know for sure.) Of course, the plan still needs to go before council, whose members are well aware that the province has zero confidence in the project and that the outlook has been bleak for some time now. We suspect even Ford himself would balk at the prospects if the project in question was any other than his beloved subway extension. Read the entire story [Globe and Mail] »

(Images: Rob Ford, Christopher Drost; Yonge-Sheppard subway, gloom)

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