So in today's provincial budget the province will fund all of Metrolinx's recommendations.
Also indeed the $3 million for a new platform at James Street North Station in Hamilton will go to LIUNA Station.
The $497 million in the 2008 budget + the funds allocated in the 2007 Fall Fiscal Update (December 2007) totals $744.2 million from the province for the Quick Win Projects:
Hamilton:
$17.4m B-Line Improvements, King-Main Corridor
$12.4m A-Line Improvements, James-Upper James Corridor
$3.0m Sames St North GO/VIA Station Gateway to Niagara
Peel
$26.5m Dundas & Hurontario Higher-Order Transit Corridor
$39.0m Mississauga Transitway Hub, Airport-Renforth Gateway
$0.6m Bolton GO Transit Improvements
Halton
$57.6m Dundas BRT
York
$52.0m Viva Highway 7 - Pine Valley to Kennedy
$19.0m Viva Yonge - Richmond Hill Centre to 19th Ave
$29.0m Viva Yonge - 19th Ave to Newmarket
Durham
$82.3m Highway 2 BRT Spine
$5.6m Cornell Terminal
Toronto
$7.1m TTC Transit City LRT Head Start
$293.0m Yonge Subway Capacity Improvements
$5.7m Yonge Finch to Steeles BRT *Funding previosly provided by city
Inter-Regional
$5.0 Bicycle Expansion, storage and bus carrying devices
$60.0 GO Rail Fleet Expansion: 20 additional bi-level cars for Lakeshore
$9.0 GO Double Decker Buses - 10 new buses
$20.0 GO Track Expansion - GO Bradford & GO Stouffville Corridors.
Total $744.2 million
Also in addition to this $389 million has been allocated in 2008-09 for rehabilitation projects, including improvements to GO Transit facilities at Union Station and other stations throughout the GO network and transit equipment
$166 million over 5 years to expand GO BRT network and purchase additional double decker buses
$89 million over next two years for GO Transit projects identified by Metrolinx, including 20 new bi-level coaches, 10 new double decker buses as track expansions of GO rail corridors.
Overall a huge budget for public transit.