Toronto expected to add 5 new transit stations by 2026
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It may open much later than initially promised, and with only a fraction of the originally-planned stations, but Toronto Mayor John Tory s SmartTrack program is still alive. for now.
What was pitched by Tory in 2014 as a 22-stop rapid surface rail route has been reduced to just five stations as of this week, according to a newly-published report set to go before the city s Executive Committee on January 27.
Two SmartTrack stations have been axed from the most-recent iteration of the plan, which had been approved in 2016 with seven stations running along a GO rail corridor, long before the forthcoming Ontario Line was even a glimmer in Doug Ford s eye.