Support for Sheppard subway extension mixed

By News Staff

Posted February 2, 2012 7:08 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

The plan, first drafted in 1980, calls for the Sheppard line to extend east to the Scarborough Town Centre and west to Downsview station.

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