Statement from Mayor Rob Ford: future of subways in Toronto
Posted February 8, 2012 9:41 pm.
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On Wednesday evening, after city council voted 25-18 in favour of TTC chair Karen Stintz’s proposal of a light rail transit, Mayor Rob Ford released the following statement regarding the future of subways in Toronto.
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Dear Friends,
I campaigned to bring subways to Toronto and the people of Toronto gave me an overwhelming mandate to build subways.
Today, City Council spoke to its wish for the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown.
The residents of Scarborough, Toronto’s fastest growing region, deserve underground rapid transit – and I promised to deliver it to them. Today’s vote does not change my promise.
Great cities, like Paris, London and New York were built around long term transit visions 100 years ago. Subways in Scarborough represent that long term vision for our great city.
I want to thank the thousands of you who called and wrote to my office and to the office of your respective Councillors to tell them that you voted for subways.
I will continue to stand up for taxpayers across Toronto. I will continue to work for a high-speed subway network in Scarborough and across the city.
An investment in first class transit infrastructure will stand the test of time. I want residents, many years from now, to look back at our time and be thankful we did the right thing by building subways that will still be in use.
I will not abandon the people of Scarborough and Finch Avenue to a second class transit solution that will inflict St. Clair Avenue style chaos on neighbourhoods without any promise of improved travel times.
That is, and remains, my commitment to you as Mayor of this great city.
Yours truly,
Mayor Rob Ford
