Transit researcher, non-aligned
Retired after 47+ yrs @4 Toronto newsrooms
Author of 2020 report on the soaring costs of building subways
Love to paddle kayaks
Jan 28, 2020 β’ 10 tweets β’ 5 min read
1. Last night's #OntarioLine meeting at Ryerson was very crowded and I came away more than a bit disappointed in what I saw. It was my first time in that building, which is on the site of the old journalism school, where Jack Layton told me (almost 34 years ago to the day) ... 2. ... that the then-proposed Downtown Relief Line (part of Network 2011) made no sense because a) it would lead to more densification of downtown (something we got) and b) its trains would be packed from Day 1 (a theory we never got to test). #OntarioLine