The Sheppard East LRT is a planned light rail line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, originally proposed as part of the Transit City proposal announced March 16, 2007. Put on hiatus in December 2010 by Premier Dalton McGuinty at the request of Mayor Rob Ford following the election of Ford, the line was re-instated at a special meeting of Toronto city council in March 2012.
The line is to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. Metrolinx had budgeted $944.5 million from 2009 through 2014 for the design and construction of the line. Funding was approved by the provincial and federal governments in May 2009. Detailed engineering had also been initiated for the grade separation of Sheppard Avenue East and the GO Transit tracks east of Kennedy Road. Construction for the line began on 21 December 2009 at Agincourt GO Station. The line was expected to open on September 11, 2013, the first of the seven Transit City lines to be completed. The line was cancelled and construction halted by Mayor Rob Ford in April 2011, however City Council reinstated the line in March 2012. In June 2012, the province of Ontario announced that construction of the Sheppard East LRT would not resume until 2017 or finish until 2021.
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