Construction on the final section of the Gardiner East won’t begin until 2026. Mr. Tory suggested in one debate that it’s too late to alter the plans. It is not
John Tory does not want you to remember 2015. In that year, his first as Toronto mayor, he pushed a decision to reconstruct one piece of the Gardiner Expressway at a cost of a billion dollars. There were persuasive arguments to replace it with a regular road; but rebuilding the elevated highway won the day.
This is not a dead issue. The easternmost section of the expressway, from Cherry Street to the Don Valley Parkway, is “going through detailed design,” a city spokesperson said this week, and no construction contracts have gone to market yet.Back in 2015, the debate recalled Rob Ford’s bluster about a “war on the car.” This particular section of the Gardiner carried just 3 per cent of daily commuters into downtown Toronto.
The highway defenders’ arguments were never good. Why should one particular group of commuters, about 15,000 in each rush hour, receive such a disproportionate expenditure of public funds? In 2022, that position is harder to defend. The city has an ambitious climate-change action plan; building a carbon-intensive elevated highway is climate arson. It is expensive; yet after a decade of austerity, Toronto’s public realm and public services are crumbling. The city is in serious financial trouble.
Mr. Tory would prefer not to discuss it. “It’s a decision that was made about seven years ago and had been considered and reconsidered,” he said in an editorial board meeting with The Globe and Mail on Monday.
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