Within five months, the cost of the one-stop subway extension would swell to consume nearly all of the money budgeted for the original three-station configuration, leaving almost no funds for the promised LRT extension. Article Continued Below“This wasn’t a transit plan, this was a sales job,” said Councillor Josh Matlow. Those costs, city staff said Wednesday, now total $3.9 billion — hundreds of millions of dollars more than the city has budgeted to pay for it. So the city planning team started reviewing the transit plan for Scarborough. Keesmaat described the funding in a similar manner, saying one more subway station and the Eglinton LRT extension could be built “within the same funding envelope” as the three-stop subway extension.

Source: thestar March 28, 2019 19:52 UTC