Chow Pushes for Scarborough East Rapid Transit

0:00Toronto Mayor Olivia Chao is pushing hard to speed up the design for a new rabbit transit line in Scarborough East. At a city hall meeting this week, she called for rebranding it from Eglinton East LRT to Scarborough East Rapid Transit and asked for extra cash too. Hit the gas on planning. Council gave it a unanimous thumbs up, boating 25 to 0. This line would put 80,000 residents within walking distance of fast transit, plus make life easier for students and staff at the university. Of Toronto Scarborough campus and folks heading to the Toronto Zoo. Right now, getting around that eastern part of Scarborough by bus or whatever takes forever. So far, the cities dropped $18 million on early design work and Chao wants another 10 million to push toward 30% completion. The whole project could run about $4.6 billion to build, but it's not funded yet since provincial and federal governments haven't committed. Staff are still grinding on details, like whether stops go above or below ground, along that 18.6 kilometer route from Kennedy station.

1:05Out to Malvern and Backdoor McCown Road. Meanwhile, the waterfront East LRT just locked in $2 billion from all levels of government. Chao's not sitting around waiting. She says Toronto's ready with his share and keeps designing while chasing that full funding deal. Canada News today, powered by AI bringing you what matters.