Mayor John Tory says that he is committed to continuing discussions with the province around a potential upload of the subway system, despite concerns he now has over the potential for delays to already-approved projects that the Ford government is interested in altering.
Tory made the comment to reporters on Wednesday morning following the release of a letter from Deputy Minister of Transportation Shelley Tapp and the province’s special advisor on the subway upload Michael Lindsay that outlined desired changes to four priority projects.
“We absolutely must sit down with each other and resolve and discuss our differences and in the end find a way to get transit built without delay,” he said. “We know that is the only place where we can stand up for Toronto and protect our transit system and I think it is the only place we can go where we can insist that the province show us project by project step, by step how the changes that are proposed do not result in delays.
At the same time, he said that he believes the process that has been established to consider a potential subway upload is working “complicated, difficult and sometimes frustrating as it may be.”
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