May 19, 2010

QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is warning Torontonians that they have no reason to trust Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty when it comes to improving public transit in their city.

"In a Metrolinx report being released today, not one penny has been allocated for construction of some crucial Toronto transit lines over the next five years," Horwath said during today’s Question Period.

"It’s now clear that the Finch LRT and Scarborough RT lines are in danger of being completely axed," she added, emphasizing that the Metrolinx report clearly shows that not one penny has been allocated for construction of the two lines over the next five years.Horwath says the report casts doubt on McGuinty’s long-term commitment to Transit City and Torontonians, especially those in some of the city’s most disadvantaged neighbourhoods who would stand to see the greatest benefit.　

　"Just as the McGuinty government has cut $4-billion from the five-year transit budget leading to 2016, a future government could easily cut $3-billion and kill off the two lines altogether," she warned."Since the Premier’s already broken a promise and cut $4-billion from Transit City’s initial five-year budget, Torontonians have no reason to believe that the Finch and Scarborough transit lines will ever be built."

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