[URBAN NOTE] "Relief line subway advocates look beyond downtown"

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The Toronto Star's Tess Kalinowski has a nice interview with a student advocate of the Downtown Relief Line.

First there was FAST — Friends and Allies of SmartTrack. Now another unfunded Toronto transit project has its own support group.

The Toronto Relief Line Alliance is advocating for a project that has been pushed down the line for decades.

But the reawakened debate about a subway for Scarborough will inevitably bring new attention to the relief line.

Once referred to as the Downtown Relief Line, it is now more frequently called just “the Relief Line.” Many versions have been discussed over the years, but most envision a subway running off the east end of the Bloor-Danforth line to downtown around Queen or Front St.

University of Toronto student Louis Mark, 19, who is behind the alliance, wants to focus on what he calls the Relief Line Long. It would extend north of the Danforth, up to about Sheppard Ave. and Don Mills Rd.