The Etobicoke-Finch West LRT is a proposed light rail line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was part of the Transit City proposal announced on March 16, 2007, to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. Construction is to begin in 2015, and the line to be inservice from the Toronto-York-Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE) to Humber College in 2019.
When first announced, it was expected to cost approximately $1.2 billion, with construction to begin in 2010 and an expected opening in 2013, as the second of the seven Transit City lines to be completed after the Sheppard East LRT line.
On April 1, 2009, the Ontario government announced that it would provide funding for construction of this line. However, Mayor Rob Ford cancelled the line after taking office in December 2010. In February 2012, city council voted to restore the LRT as part of a new transit plan restoring some of the elements of the Transit City proposal over Mayor Ford's objections.
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