Toronto Subway and RT - Future Expansion

Future Expansion

Prior to 2011, the TTC had placed a lower priority on subway expansion, preferring to construct surface light rail lines instead, under a plan called Transit City, which was introduced by former Toronto Mayor David Miller in 2007. Extension of the Spadina segment of the Yonge–University–Spadina line to Vaughan, Ontario, however, began construction work in 2010 and is funded by the Government of Ontario's MoveOntario 2020 plan, with its expected completion year being 2015. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who took office in December 2010, announced his decision to stop all developments on surface light rail transit outlined in the Transit City plan and focus on underground rapid transit expansion. In March 2011, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and the mayor jointly announced the start of two other expansion plans: constructing a Crosstown LRT line along Eglinton Avenue, which would connect to a renovated Scarborough RT line; and the extension of the Sheppard line east from Don Mills Station to Scarborough Centre Station, and west from Yonge to Downsview Station.

The MoveOntario 2020 plan also considers additional proposals to extend the Yonge–University–Spadina line's Yonge segment from Finch Station north along Yonge Street to Highway 7 in Richmond Hill, Ontario, as well as extending the Scarborough RT line from McCowan Station northeast to the neighbourhood of Malvern.