Tory to make transit announcement at Pape Station

Toronto.citynews.ca
Jan 17, 2019

Mayor John Tory is set to make a transit announcement on Thursday and it is expected to be about the downtown relief line.

The announcement will take place at Pape Station at 10 a.m. A source told Breakfast Television that the announcement is about the relief line.

The planned 7.5-kilometre subway line with eight stations will connect the downtown core to Pape Station on Line 2 Bloor-Danforth to relieve crowding on Line 1 south of Bloor, at the Bloor-Yonge interchange and on surface routes.

The second phase -- the Relief Line North -- will extend north from Pape Station and connect to existing and future rapid transit, like Line 5 Eglinton and Line 4 Sheppard.

Last October, province gave the city and Metrolinx permission to proceed with the line following its environmental assessment of the project.

Shortly thereafter, Tory announced the creation of a “transit czar” -- a role that will focus on building the transit network plan, including the downtown relief line