With just months to go before the Scarborough RT is decommissioned, the TTC has temporarily shut down service on the line following a train derailment on Monday night that left five people injured. This incident could be the final nail in the coffin for the aging six-stop transit line, which opened in 1985 and was scheduled to be shut down for good in November.
With just months to go before the Scarborough RT is decommissioned, the TTC has temporarily shut down service on the line followingThis incident could be the final nail in the coffin for the aging six-stop transit line, which opened in 1985 and was scheduled to be shut down for good in November.The SRT vehicles were only designed to run for 25 years and should have been retired more than a decade ago.
But following his election in 2010, former Toronto mayor Rob Ford cancelled the fully funded Transit City plan, proposing to replace the SRT with an extension of the Bloor–Danforth subway line. At the time, Ford’s subway was estimated to cost $3.65 billion and was unfunded by other levels of government. City council ultimately voted in favour of Ford’s plan.
“We had approval from the federal government to build the Scarborough subway. It would have been built by now led by my brother Rob. It was shot down by the provincial government,” said Ford, who previously served as a Toronto city councillor during his brother’s tenure as mayor. The city had considered a third overhaul to keep the SRT running past 2023, but when the timeline for the new subway extension was pushed back, councillors decided to scrap the SRT in favour of buses.
“During the extreme winter months, snow and ice also affects the operation of SRT with the system being suspended for 6 days in 2018 and 2019.”
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