Ontario’s 30-year vision to grow transportation networks around Toronto includes highway expansions and potential new transit networks, though many elements of the plan are not fully costed.
The province says the region is expected to grow to 15 million people by 2051 and the transportation plan aims to fight anticipated gridlock and efficiently move goods.
Over the next decade, the province says it plans to spend $61 billion on public transit and more than $21 billion on highways.
The highway costs include parts of the controversial Bradford Bypass and Highway 413 projects, which are central parts of the transportation plan but haven’t been fully costed yet.
The plan — laid out by the Progressive Conservatives a few month before the provincial election — mentions new “conceptual” transit connections between Burlington and Oshawa north of Toronto and a loop connecting the Ontario transit line to Toronto’s Personal International Airport.
There are also plans to widen and expand existing highways.
(The Canadian Press)