(1) GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER: PROVINCE
"Clearly a year after the MOU,.... the city doesn't have its act together," Ontario Transportation Minister Rob Chiarelli said. "I think more than anything else the people who live in this community are entitled to see progress," Premier Dalton McGuinty said.
McGuinty and Ford struck the MOU last year, turning the old transit city plan of four suburban light rails into one underground Eglinton line at a cost of $8.2billion.
(2) STINTZ TO FORD: BURY LESS OF THE EGLINTON LRT IF YOU WANT A SHEPPARD SUBWAY
"If all the money is used up on Eglinton..I don't know how we would extend Sheppard," TTC Chairman Karen Stintz said on Wenesday.
She farther said, "I think there is broad-based support that extending Sheppard subway makes sense and now it is a question of how to achieve that."
The way to advance Sheppard, Stintz believes, is to take savings from having the east end of the Eglinton LRT at street-level and using them to drive the extension of the Sheppard subway as far as the city can afford.
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