[URBAN NOTE] "What Toronto’s March 2016 Transit Reports Mean for the City’s Future"

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Noted for the future. Torontoist's Steve Munro examines the various transit reports published by the city of Toronto.

Toronto’s City Planning Department released a major update on rapid transit network plans on March 3, and the information will inform the city’s transit debate for the near future. The report will be discussed at the Executive Committee on March 9, and then at Council on March 30.

Although there are over 400 pages, much of the material (attached as appendices) has already been published. Council must now digest the staff recommendations available at this time.

Eventually, as part of the Official Plan, Council’s decisions will guide development for decades to come. But this is not the final, definitive version with priorities of various projects nor a discussion of how they will be financed. That will come in June, and it promises to be a long and challenging debate.

Here’s where we’re starting from.