ARG1
Senior Member
That's why I half jokingly said "Line 2 to Cornell" when the idea of using the CP corridor came up. With the exception of the Portal, the extension would be fairly cheap to build and since it runs through Greenfield and existing corridors, you woudn't have to pay for much property acquisition. Unfortunately by the time such an idea would be brought up the entire area will be covered in sprawl so you'd probably have to bury it which would ruin the point. Folks this is why you should be building transit ahead of development rather than following it.Maybe if it is fully above ground. That would be a pretty expensive extension. I could so OL being extended to York sooner.
Ford losing is a massive if. While anything is possible in politics, atm he is leading in the polls, and he would have to either A) Have a major scandal that would turn the election into a referendum on him as a premier, or B) The NDP pull a serious rabbit out of their hat. The Liberals sort of shot themselves in the foot by nominating Del Duca as party leader which will be seen by many as leftover of the Wynne years which would seriously hurt him when polling time comes, and at best would split the vote with the NDP. As a bonus, I've heard rumblings recently that the OPC started mandating election time training for all of their staff members so we might see a snap election happening soon leaving very little time for the NDP to prepare a proper campaign.That assumes the OL will become a reality. I see Ford losing next year and next government going back to the city's DRL plan.
As for the OL itself, I doubt at this point that even if Ford loses in 2022 that it's going to get cancelled. Many of the financial contracts would be signed by then making it extremely risky for any party to cancel the plan, and I think at this point the Ontario Line is further along in the design phase than the DRL was. As a bonus, based off the open houses from the days of the DRL and how quickly the plan came together after the election leads me to believe that the Ontario Line was something metrolinx was working on long before Ford came into power and all Ford did was rubber stamping, which means there is quite likely a lot of enthusiasm from Metrolinx to stick to the plan.
TLDR - Its far from Guaranteed that Ford will lose the election, and even if he does, its unlikely the OL will be cancelled.