Toronto Star reports, “Mayor John Tory won’t support reopening the debate over the Gardiner Expressway even though the cost to fix it has ballooned by $1 billion and there is uncertainty over federal funding.”
CBC News Toronto reports that the mayor’s recently announced tolling proposal is driven in part by a city report “that showed total capital costs for the entire [Gardiner Expressway redevelopment project] have gone from $2.57 billion in September 2015 to $3.637 billion [US$2.702 billion] as of August 2016. The capital costs of redeveloping the [first-phase] 1.7-kilometre section of the eastern Gardiner have climbed from $1 billion to $1.492 billion [US$1.108 billion] over the same time period.”