The ministers’ comments came less than five months before an anticipated federal election that will pit Trudeau’s Liberals against the Ontario PC’s federal cousins in the Conservative Party of Canada. Simpson disputed the ministers’ assertion that the federal government had committed funding to transit projects in other parts of the country that were at similar levels of planning as the Ontario Line. The Ontario Line would replace previous city plans for a relief line subway. Like the earlier version, the Ontario Line is intended to take pressure off the TTC’s overcrowded Line 1, but it would be roughly twice as long as the 7.4-kilometre first phase of the relief line and would connect the Ontario Science Centre to the vicinity of Ontario Place. Yurek said Monday “that hasn’t changed,” but argued there’s no reason Liberal MPs shouldn’t support the Ontario Line.

Source: thestar June 03, 2019 21:54 UTC