Comment 103196

By Noted (anonymous) | Posted July 12, 2014 at 07:12:03

"When it comes to transit funding tools, including the high-occupancy toll lanes the Liberals have been promising to pilot since 2013, Del Duca is vague. He said he won’t discuss in isolation any aspect of the government’s funding plan."

thestar.com/news/gta/2014/07/10/ontarios_new_transportation_minister_focused_on_construction_not_more_plans.html

My sense from all the messaging that has been broadcast by Wynne and Del Duca's predecessor is that regional transit, specifically all-day GO trains, network-wide is the key action item.

July 3's Throne Speech:

"Your government brought forward... a plan that builds better public transit in congested cities and better roads to connect towns with rural and remote communities... The second part of your government's economic plan for Ontario is a historic investment in modern infrastructure, particularly in transit and transportation. Your government will spend more than $130 billion on public infrastructure over the next decade -- on new hospitals, schools, undergraduate campuses, safer roads, better public transit and all-day, two-way GO Regional Express Rail -- all to support sustainable economic growth across Ontario....To firmly seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity and build a seamless, provincewide transportation network, your government will work with municipalities, local governments, transit agencies, citizens and experts. Your government will also engage the federal government as a partner in supporting its transit strategy and those of the other provinces."

news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2014/07/building-ontario-up-speech-from-the-throne.html

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