AlvinofDiaspar
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At least he could have made a more vigorous effort. He had the city's special fund, and the formal funding commitments from both the Province and the Feds. He didn't have to push for a tax increase on his own; that had been taken care of by Stinz and de Baerenmaker, before Tory was elected.
IMO, Tory's team was lacking on the technical side in case of SSE. The McCowan route (underground) was selected based on the early cost estimates, which didn't show much savings for the Uxbridge Sub (at-grade / elevated) route compared to the MCowan one. But later the cost escalated, and much of the escalation was explicitly tied to the undrground construction and the deep Lawrence East station. One would think that the elevated option needs to be revisited at this point, but no such attempt was made.
I don't think he wanted to be the bad guy pushing elevated anything in Scarborough (let's face it - it wasn't pushed there, nor Eglinton West seriously by anyone for a reason - remember all the "subways" = underground rhetoric thrown around?) - and I dare say that he is probably relieved the province took it off his hands when DoFo rolled around.
If there is one consistency to his "leadership" - is that he pretty much whip whichever way the wind blows provincially.
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