From his weekend column, the Toronto Sun’s Rob Granatstein:
The man is charge of making the business case for Rob Ford’s Sheppard subway admits the plan may never come to fruition.
“While everybody is optimistic about the building of the Sheppard subway, it could still not go,†said Gordon Chong, who is entrusted by the mayor with leading Toronto Transit Consultants Limited and putting together a business case analysis for Sheppard.
“It will either be yea or nay,†Chong said in an interview this past week.
Chong said pension funds are interested in investing and he’s optimistic, but there’s a real possibility the train is never going to hit the tracks.
via Rob Ford’s Sheppard hole: Granatstein | Rob Granatstein | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun.
I hope everyone who lives in the area around Sheppard East realizes that this administration just traded a sure-thing high-capacity transit line — due to open in three years! — with a roll-of-the-dice idea that no one, even the people working to make it happen, have much confidence in.
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