As your Metro Councillor, I voted for the Sheppard Subway line.

A few years ago the province created an agency – Metrolinx – to plan and fund public transit across the GTA. Metrolinx asked the cities of Toronto and Hamilton as well as the regional governments of York , Durham , Peel and Halton to submit their transportation “wish lists”.

These submissions were then put through a business case analysis.

As a result, as a part of the City’s transit plan, the extension of the Sheppard subway was converted to a LRT.

I fought for the subway.

In Toronto ’s official plan, the Scarborough Town Centre is the “hub” of the City’s east end. To support the centre as the hub, the subway, LRT, and bus lines were to radiate in and out of it like the spokes of a wheel not pass it by as the proposed LRT does.

As the Chair of the Scarborough Community Centre (SCC), I made sure that the SCC supported transit city with the subway option.

Unfortunately, this opinion did not survive.

I’m presently working with residents who support all the transit city LRT initiatives in Scarborough except for the Sheppard line. It’s a long shot but worth the try.

There’s been one small victory. The TTC has promised to send a spur line down McCowan Road to the Town Centre.

If you want more information on this study – with the date and time of the          final public meeting – please contact my office or check out the web site at http://www.toronto.ca/planning/sheppard_east.htm. It’s a window into your future.