Last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a plan to replace Toronto's subway expansion plans with a vision of his own. Reactions have been pouring in ever since.

That sound last week in Toronto was the ground shaking as the provincial government completely up-ended transit planning in Canada's most populous city.
As Planetizen detailed on April 10, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a new plan for subway expansion in Toronto announced a plan to shelve existing plans to build the Relief Line subway, and instead build a subway spanning Ontario Place to the Ontario Science Centre, dubbed the "Ontario Line." Premier Ford also announced plans to construct four additional new subway routes: the Scarborough Subway Extension, the Yonge North Subway Extension, and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension.
We've rounded up the opinions, editorials, and analysis published in the days since that ground-shaking announcement, collected here for your consideration in assessing the significance, and the likelihood for success, of Premier Ford's big move on transit.
- Doug Ford’s transit map looks nice; getting there is another matter (Toronto Star, April 10)
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Sitting pretty in the driver’s seat, Doug Ford wants subway riders to take a leap of faith (Toronto Star, April 10)
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How Doug Ford’s $28.5-billion transit overhaul compares with Toronto’s existing plans (Toronto Star, April 10)
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What exactly is the Ontario Line and what does it mean for riders’ commutes? (Toronto Star, April 10)
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Premier Doug Ford's $28.5B Toronto transit plan is remarkably off-brand (National Post, April 10)
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The lines on Doug Ford's transit plan paint his foes into a corner (Toronto.com, April 10)
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Doug Ford Introduces ‘Ontario Line’ And Everyone Has Questions (Toronto Storeys, April 10)
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Another Toronto transit plan to stick on the fridge (Globe and Mail, April 12)
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EDITORIAL: Ford’s subway plan is bold -- if it ever gets built (Toronto Sun, April 14)
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Toronto has 61 questions about province’s transit plans (Toronto Star, April 16)
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Is Doug Ford on track with his transit plan? Yes (Toronto Star, April 16)
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Is Doug Ford on track with his transit plan? No (Toronto Star, April 16)

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