NOW Toronto: Transit City Code Red

Transit City Code Red
Campaign that saved port lands aims to resurrect Transit City

By Ben Spurr


If the Code Blue T.O. campaign saved Toronto’s waterfront, can Code Red (coderedto.com) rescue Transit City from oblivion?

That’s the hope behind a burgeoning movement spearheaded by some of the same folks who did in Doug Ford’s port lands fantasy. That battle dealt the mayor his most dramatic council defeat to date, and transit activists now hope to stage a repeat.

“It would be amazing to emulate the success of Code Blue,” says Laurence Lui, a transportation planner and one of a core of urban experts who set the Blue campaign in motion. Now he’s working to kick-start, Code Red, a movement to resurrect Transit City.

The mayor has promised to ditch Transit City’s multiple light rail lines and replace them with a Sheppard subway and an underground Eglinton Crosstown LRT, both of which are prohibitively expensive and would serve fewer people than David Miller’s extensive light rail network. .............(more)

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