Why is Ontario so keen on digging subway tunnels?
Ontarios commitment to building public transit in the GTA, June 1  The latest provincial announcement about the go-ahead for four new subway projects is another sorry chapter in the vast enrichment of construction companies, paid to dig horrendously expensive tunnels, instead of providing cost-effective rapid transit that can serve many more people. Because Light Rail Transit (LRT) takes its power from overhead, it can travel on the surface or go overhead or underground where actually needed. In York Region, for example, LRT could easily fit down the middle of Yonge Street, going north from Finch station, at a fraction of the cost of subway and provide a greater number of easily accessible stops on a longer route. It could serve trips within York Region and commuter travel downtown. The same is true in Scarborough.