The first phase of Toronto's 15-tear transit plan took a crucial step forward this week.
"After an at-times rancorous day-long debate dominated by debate over the Scarborough subway, Toronto's Council voted by sizeable majorities for several of the key planks of the City's transit plan including the Relief Line, extensions of the Eglinton LRT to the east and west and the Scarborough subway line extension (SSE)," reports David Brake.
The article gives a lot more detail about the back-and-forth between councillors. The next step for the transit plan is for "second phase" plans, due in the first quarter of 2017.
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