kEiThZ
Superstar
5 billion? That's way too much maybe like 3 billion, unless you also include an extension west to downsview station.
My bad. I think $5 billion was to STC.
You're right. Maybe $3 billion to McCowan. Still. I don't think it's sellable to the feds. Where there was a case to extend the Bloor-Danforth with existing ridership, and essentially extension of a trunk line that would ever serve some of the 905, extending the Sheppard Subway won't have the same case. And it's even more expensive than this Bloor-Danforth extension, while serving far fewer riders.
Politically, the feds will get to touch quite a few wards with the $330 million contribution. Why would they up that by several hundred million and touch fewer wards? The calculus on the SRT replacement was entirely different. There was the SRT shutdown, the fact that it has been a touchy issue for nearly a full generation now, etc.
In any event, I just can't see it. But you may turn out to be right in the end. We'll see.