If you can’t make it to the canvass sign our petition. Tell Council and the Province to support a publicly run LRT along Sheppard Avenue East and to start construction now!
SHEPPARD EAST LRT - A FIASCO OF FLIP FLOPS
| YEAR |
FLIP FLOP |
| 2009 |
Construction of the Sheppard East LRT begins. |
| 2010 |
Construction is cancelled by then Mayor Ford. |
| 2012 |
The Province announces all LRTs will be run privately delaying construction an additional two years. |
| 2013 |
The year the Sheppard East LRT would have started providing service to residents in Malvern, if construction had not been cancelled. |
| 2015 |
Councillors Mammoliti and Karygiannis put forward a motion to replace the Sheppard East LRT with a subway. Councillors Kelly and Cho support the motion.Councillor Chin Lee tells reporter Mike Adler of the Scarborough Mirror that he would support scrapping the Sheppard LRT ($1B) if it would help finance Smart Track. Report: Choices for Scarborough Transit, Walking, and Intensification in Toronto’s Inner Suburbs, recommends building the Sheppard LRT immediately.
Wynne government announces the Finch West LRT will go ahead as planned but the Sheppard East LRT will face yet another delay!
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| 2017 |
When construction of the Sheppard East LRT was scheduled to resume. Most recent delay has pushed it ahead to 2021. |
| 2025 |
New completion date. |
Work on the Sheppard LRT, which will run all the way from Don Mills to Malvern, began in 2009. It would have been finished in 2013, if political flip flopping hadn’t stalled the project.
The subway that some politicians are calling for instead, would have very few stops and leave anyone living east of Kennedy, without any rapid transit at all.
Privatizing new rapid transit lines puts profits ahead of service and affordable fares. Labour costs are cut and good, local jobs are replaced with low wage, temporary employment.
Riders in Scarborough’s outer neighbourhoods need an accessible, affordable transit network. The narrow interests of those who want a ‘subway or nothing’ or a privately run LRT, will leave these areas behind.
You can sign our petition here.
