Business cases released Friday by Metrolinx, the Crown agency overseeing transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, determined both the three-stop Scarborough subway extension and the Eglinton West LRT would incur costs that significantly outweigh their benefits and don’t meet the agency’s threshold for economic viability. Metrolinx’s guidelines say that to be considered economically viable a transit project should have a benefit-cost ratio of at least 1. The Scarborough subway extension has been a divisive project for years. The city previously planned to replace the aging Scarborough RT with a seven-stop LRT, but in 2013 voted to build a three-stop subway extension instead. This is not the first time that Metrolinx officials have found the Scarborough subway is not worth building.

Source: thestar February 29, 2020 00:00 UTC