But the proposal to build the Relief Line using alternate technology is particularly unexpected. We got absolutely nothing built when Rob Ford was the mayor because he scrapped all the existing (Transit City LRT) plans and came up with his own impossible-to-deliver plan. He stressed there shouldn’t be changes to the Relief Line design and noted the Scarborough subway is already moving towards approval for construction as a one-stop extension. But Perks said that the city had already significantly advanced design of a one-stop Scarborough subway, and consulted with residents on an Eglinton West LRT that would be mostly above ground. The three-stop version of the Scarborough line was last estimated at $4.6 billion, but additional work on that concept hasn’t been carried forward after council voted in July 2016 to move ahead with the one-stop plan.

Source: thestar March 26, 2019 22:40 UTC