ON: Mayor John Tory Promises Rapid Transit for Malvern Despite Funding Uncertainty

Mayor John Tory, who signed up last week to run for a second term in the upcoming October election, promised residents of Malvern they would be connected to rapid transit after decades taking the bus.

But the cost of a plan to build and extend a light-rail line to the Malvern Town Centre mall and how to finance it remained unclear as Tory made the pitch at an official mayoral news conference in Scarborough on a sunny Monday.

The Eglinton East LRT would run east of the Eglinton Crosstown, which is now under construction and will terminate at Kennedy station.

That original plan was estimated to cost $1.67 billion in 2016.

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