“The only time I have ever seen council reverse policy on a transit project was when Rob and Doug Ford stopped Transit City and therefore stopped transit expansion in the city of Toronto,” Perks said. Provincial Transit Projects: Who builds it faster? : The province agreed to fund the lines as part of the Transit City plan and in 2009 said both would open in 2013. Rob Ford declared Transit City dead in 2010, only to see council resurrect the LRTs in 2012. : Council resurrected the line in 2013 after Rob Ford killed the Transit City light rail plan.

Source: thestar February 16, 2019 21:00 UTC