The Ontario PC government introduced legislation Thursday that would give it sweeping powers to assume control of new Toronto transit projects. The Getting Ontario Moving Act, which Transportation Minister Jeff Yurek previewed in a speech to a business audience Wednesday, would allow the government to designate new rapid transit projects or rapid transit extension projects as the “sole responsibility” of Metrolinx, the provincial transit agency for the GTHA. The Ontario Progressive Conservative government has tabled legislation that, if passed, would see the province take over new Toronto subway projects. Ontario NDP MPP and transit critic Jessica Bell slammed the legislation as a “hostile takeover” of Toronto’s transit network. Bell said Metrolinx couldn’t be trusted to oversee the city’s transit system.

Source: thestar May 02, 2019 22:08 UTC