Toronto and area will be getting a whack of money to enhance its ability to move people about the city.
Kinga Surma, Associate Minister of Transportation said in Toronto this afternoon that, "Building subways is what our government campaigned on, and we are delivering on our promise to build the public transit system that the people of the Toronto and the broader GTHA so desperately need."
The Ontario government has put forward a $28.5 billion plan called Ontario's "New Subway Transit Plan for the GTHA" which will deliver a regional transit network that connects more people and reduces travel times throughout the region.
"Our plan represents the single largest investment in subway expansion and extensions in Ontario's history," announced Surma.
Four priority subway projects have the green light.
- The Ontario Line, spanning approximately 16 kilometers, and connecting the Exhibition/ Ontario Place on the western lakeshore, to the Ontario Science Centre in northeast Toronto should be open by the end of 2027.
- The three-stop Scarborough Subway Extension, will provide enhanced and expanded transit options and will open in 2029-30.
- The Yonge North Subway Extension, which will stretch from the existing terminus of Finch Station to Richmond Hill Centre in York Region thereby creating a regional subway connection to Markham and Richmond Hill for the first time. It will open in 2029-30, as well.
- The Eglinton West Crosstown Extension will extend the Eglinton Crosstown project, currently under construction, further west along Eglinton Avenue to Renforth Drive, a majority of which will run underground. That will open by 2030-31.
The Province is further committed to establishing connectivity with Pearson International Airport.
